Software Distribution and Deployment

The Business Problem

Delivery, installation, updating, repair, removal, and management of applications, files, upgrades, versions and other content on desktops, laptops, and servers presents a significant challenge to IT in today’s dynamic and distributed enterprise networks. Lack of IT department visibility and control of current software configurations at the endpoint device and “difficult” network environments, result in increased software management costs, reduced end-user productivity, and increased downtime risks.

The BigFix Solution

BigFix Enterprise Suite helps IT departments gain tighter control over managing the lifecycle of applications on desktops, laptops, and servers through automated and efficient software deployment. The BigFix Enterprise Suite takes the uncertainty out of deploying and managing software with Real-Time Visibility and Control™ of software configuration and distribution. Once the software reaches its designated end-point, BigFix Enterprise Suite performs an automated installation of the package and maintains a compliant configuration automatically.

BigFix’s unique BigFix Enterprise Suite Relay architecture automatically optimizes network efficiency to significantly decrease the amount of bandwidth a distribution consumes with policy-based bandwidth limitation and automatic package caching. The sophisticated download manager built into the BigFix agent for Windows, Linux, Unix, and Macintosh OS X operating systems, can quickly recover and resume a download from a dropped or interrupted network connection providing exceptional reliability in distributed networks and for mobile and remote computers. BigFix Enterprise Suite enables administrators to:

• Ensure that applications are distributed, installed and managed in a timely, reliable and efficient manner
• Optimize network bandwidth requirements for automated software distribution to significantly decrease traffic congestion risks and reliably transmit software over “difficult” public network telecommunications links
• Increase the reliability of download execution and reduce the impact of unreliable or intermittent network connections
• Improve software management through real-time visibility into current software and hardware configurations
• Also manage software inventory discovery when combined with BigFix’s Inventory and License Management solution
• Ensure the availability of enterprise software distribution infrastructure with BigFix’s highly scalable, secure BigFix Enterprise Suite platform and BigFix Enterprise Suite Relay architecture
• Distribute software packaged using BigFix software deployment wizards and third-party packaging tools including InstallShield, RTPatch, Wise, and others

Buying Guide

BigFix Enterprise Suite platform—The highly scalable, real-time foundation for BigFix configuration management and security solutions provides the foundation for software distribution and deployment.

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