2.0.
Most enterprises run hundreds of different applications.
Each application needs to be
installed, managed, and many require a steady stream of
upgrades and fixes. Failure to
stay current can leave an organization exposed to gaping
holes that hackers are waiting to
exploit.
Additionally, each program needs to be properly
licensed. Yet keeping track of license
compliance can be a full-time job for several IT staff.
You have to constantly verify that you
are not exceeding your contractual privileges. If you
get it wrong, you face hefty fines, and
if that’s not bad enough, traditional licensing schemes
are being phased out by annual
subscription-like software contracts from Microsoft and
others.
"Managing software licenses and updates is a serious
problem for administrators," said
Paul Mason, Group Vice President of Infrastructure
Software Research at International
Data Corporation (IDC) of Framingham, MA. "Any tool that
can automate software
inventory management and keep the technology current and
performing these actions
remotely will save companies enormous amounts of money."
"Since the release of Sitekeeper 1.0 a year ago, we have
paid very close attention to
feedback from our customers. What we discovered is that
it is imperative that we supply
companies, especially small to medium-size sites, with a
simple, cost-effective but
powerful tool to handle site management. I feel that
with this release of Sitekeeper we are
doing just that," said George Goodrich, Sitekeeper
Product Manager at Executive Software
International.
Product Features:
Sitekeeper 2.0 users experience an advanced Windows XP-
compatible interface for
simple, intuitive operation. Key features include:
•
Support for
Microsoft ® Windows ® 95b, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT ®
,
Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
•
Inventory Tracker – instantly see what hardware and software is deployed
throughout a site.
•
License Tracker – shows system administrators exactly what the software
license
compliance status is. Takes guess work and liability out
of how many licenses or
updates may be needed with automatic, up-to-date record
keeping.
•
Support for laptops and machines intermittently connected to the network.
•
PushInstaller™
– recently released in the company’s
flagship product, Diskeeper ®
7.0, this powerful market-proven technology completely
eliminates the time and
cost of manual installation or uninstalls, keeping a
site’s technology current with
fast, two-click central control. With no learning curve,
administrators can easily and
rapidly install or uninstall software, updates, upgrades
and patches, which are
logo-compliant for Windows 2000 and XP, or are
Microsoft-Installer compliant, on
selected machines throughout a site from a central
location. PushInstaller can
even be used to install Windows XP itself.
•
With
Sitekeeper 2.0 you can easily Push Install software across multiple
domains
and workgroups.
•
Full
legacy software applications scanning, filtering and reporting.
•
Large
library of Push Install scripts that can be updated via the web.
•
Sitekeeper
enables the user to "Check for Updates" easily via the web.
•
PushInstall supports admin-level logins and reboots for tough installs
like Internet
Explorer 5.5 or later
•
PushInstall supports customer notifications of pending installs on a
user’s
machine.
•
License Tracking/Inventory and PushInstall available as
individual modules
The Estimated Street Price for Sitekeeper 1-10 pack is
£275.
Sitekeeper 2.0 is available for sale or additional
product information at
www.execsoft.co.uk or by calling Executive Software
Europe at +44 (0)1342 327477
About Executive Software
Founded in 1981, Executive Software specializes in
focused development of system
management tools for the enterprise. In addition, the
company is the world leader in
system performance/defragmentation software for Windows
NT, 2000, XP and OpenVMS ®
