Managing the “care and feeding” of hundreds of thousands of network devices presents a formidable task for IT organizations. Even a simple question such as, “How many computers do you have?” can generate a variety of responses. Most organizations struggle with these basic questions about their computing environment:
How do you set up specific endpoints to meet a certain security configuration?
How do you ensure that users within a certain role are running the correct version of an application?
How do you deploy patches in a way that minimizes downtime?
What's Included
BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management streamlines IT operational tasks with a lightweight, single-agent, single-console framework. The suite includes the following product components:
BigFix Asset Discovery provides visibility into all IP-enabled devices on your network.
BigFix Asset Inventory offers deep inspection capabilities to report on hundreds of hardware and software attributes out of the box, across platforms, in real time, at massive scale.
BigFix Patch Management collapses patch and update time scales, reduces staff workloads, cuts cost, and increases the effectiveness of patch processes.
BigFix Power Management delivers significant energy cost savings and reduces carbon emissions through enterprise-wide desktop system power conservation.
BigFix Remote Control configures and manages Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance functionality.
BigFix Software Distribution automates and adds new levels of assurance to the software deployment process.
BigFix Software Asset Management helps enterprises identify under-used software to manage costs, and over-used licenses to stay on the right side of software license agreements.
BigFix OS Deployment, an optional component, provides bare-metal imaging and provisioning for operating systems.
BigFix Device Management for Windows Mobile enables configuration, encryption, and software distribution management by optimizing the BigFix Windows Agent for the mobile platform
Why BigFix?
Powered by the real-time visibility and control of the BigFix unified management platform, BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management brings cost-savings to key IT functions critical at each stage of the systems lifecycle - for desktops, servers and roaming laptops. Consolidating and streamlining the most common IT operational tasks, BigFix delivers the highest levels of automation combined with fine-grained accuracy, enabling IT departments to maintain service levels, focus on critical issues, and ensure overall operating efficiency.
