Power & Patch Management

Bigfix Systems Lifecycle Management

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Product Overview

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 . read more »

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.

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