Title: LANDesk Process Manager 3'0 Overview The LANDesk Integration Release
1LANDesk Process Manager 3.0OverviewThe
LANDesk Integration Release
2LANDesk 2006 Product Strategy
- Maintain leadership position in Systems
Management - Broaden beach head in Security Management
- Evolve foothold in IT Service Management
3The Progression of IT Management
High Value
Business Value
business intelligence ? business processes ?
Ensuring IT Service Delivery
Policy-Based
Setting and Enforcing Policies
- product workflows
- policy templates
- ITIL processes
- compliance scanning
Desktop Suites
Managing Device State
Tools
- software distribution
- OS deployment
- license monitoring
Fixing Device Problems
- remote control
- inventory management
Low Value
1990
2000
2005
2007
Reactive
Proactive
Distribution data from Gartner Symposium, Oct.
2005
4Gartner IT Service Delivery
5Improving Business Process 1 for CIOs
Gartner EXP Premier Report, January 2006
6LANDesk Process Manager 3.0Tightly Integrated
with LANDesk Software
- Support and promote convergence of IT operations
and business process management with change and
process management solutions.
LANDesk Process Manager automates enterprise
processes saving time and reducing costs and
optimizes processes for efficiency and
consistency.
7LANDesk Process Manager Breaking Down Business
Barriers
- Shift to process-centric thinking and process
lifecycle management - Raise visibility of service and IT organizations
throughout the business - Facilitate rapid changeprocess-driven service
can respond quickly to new knowledge or best
practices - Empower IT organizations with more than
technology to apply to operational and business
processes
8LANDesk Process Manager Customer Benefits
- Effective change management
- Helps organizations outline and detail the steps
needed for a properly functioning change
management system - Enhanced audit capabilities
- Enables organizations to integrate ongoing
compliance measures into their business processes - No development resources needed
- Eliminates the need for intensive development
resources through tight integration of process
design, documentation, execution and management - Increased visibility
- Visibility of the IT organization across the
enterprise and process visibility for key
stakeholders -
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10LANDesk Process ManagerEnabling BPM and Change
Management
- LPM is a Business Process Management (BPM)
application - Allows you to manage business objectives via
automation - LPM is an effective cross-discipline control and
process enabler, ensuring consistency and
supporting business governance - LPM is a Change Management (CM) system
- Change Management is one of the ITIL disciplines,
focused on continually supplying high-quality IT
services by managing resources effectively - LANDesk Process Manager supports Change
Management to cost effectively manage business
change, enhancing strategic changes to the IT
infrastructure - Change Management is very closely associated with
Configuration Management, a core competency of
LANDesk technology
11LANDesk Process ManagerBusiness Process
Management
- An empowering BPM system should have
- Graphical tools to quickly create, modify, and
deploy workflow processes - Run-time engine with validation that maintains
state - Be agile enough to allow for rapid process
development and a dynamic changing environment - Have tools for monitoring progress of workflows,
reporting and audit logs - Have methodology for post-completion analysis and
continual improvement - LANDesk Process Manager has all of the above.
12LANDesk Process Manager Change Management System
- Examples of IT changes include
- Applying a patch, installing new software, server
management, etc. - Requests for Change (RFCs) are tracking
mechanisms - Why the change?
- Who is requesting?
- When?
- Organizational impact (downtime, etc.)?
- LPM change governance will
- Minimize risk of failed or bad changes
- Minimize disruption to service caused by change
- Prevent unauthorized changes
- Authorize and allocate resources to make changes
- Ensure changes are implemented cost effectively
13Process Value Pyramid
- Corporate Business Processes
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
- HIPAA compliance
- ISO17799 certification
- Business Process Re-engineering
- IT Departmental Processes
- Implementing Microsofts SOG or MOF
- ITIL (etc.) best practices
- Remediating the SANs Top 20
- Automating and standardizing
- Product Workflow Processes
- Effective software distribution configuration
management - Parallel patch management
- Using R/C at your helpdesk
14LANDesk Process Manager
15LANDesk Process Manager Architecture
Business / Operational Process Management
Business Integration / Automation
16LANDesk Process Manager 3.0 Top 10 New
Enhancements
- New process template content, including powerful
LANDesk processes - New Actions security and patch, manual, and
add/delete device - Mobile device support support for PDAs and
smart phone platforms - Interactive forms consume InfoPath forms within
workflows - Process integration with LANDesk Service Desk
supports incident, problem and change management - Standard SOA Web service action
- Enhanced import/export includes event listeners
and tasks now report completed status - New reports, including time to complete and
audit history reporting - Web interface enhancements addition of to do
lists - New autorun install and one step upgrade
17New ProcessesContent and Templates
- Customer Challenge
- Automation of processes
- Out-of-the-box capability
- Quick ROI
- Customer benefits
- Pre-defined, out-of-the-box LANDesk processes
- Support for common tasks, including change
management, HR, OS deployment, security and
server management - Use sample workflows as is or customize to meet
your specific process - Share process flows with others using
import/export tools - Trigger workflow process from alert, email,
database change, incident, or other event - Re-use workflows within multiple processes for
agility, consistency and process optimization
18Value for LANDesk Customers
- LANDesk Process Manager enables customers to
tightly integrate LANDesk toolsets into highly
efficient and scalable change and configuration
management workflow processes - The change management capability allows LANDesk
customers to gain or enhance IT discipline and
best practices - LANDesk customers may view Process Manager as an
embedded process engine to automate common
tasks - Leverages common, core LANDesk services
- Software distribution
- OS imaging
- Configuration management
- Patch management
- Vulnerability scanning and remediation
- Software license monitoring
- Asset and inventory management
- Endpoint security management
19Example Server Patching Process
20Server Patching Process in LANDesk Process
Manager
21Sample LANDesk Workflows Possible in LANDesk
Process Manager
- A few examples are
- Vista migration
- Patch process with automatic initiation via
vulnerability scan - WMI-type action (re-start service, re-boot
server, SNMP action, etc.) - Service Desk / LDMS integration with change mgmt
- Software distribution
- Software license monitoring
22Mobile Device SupportSupported Platforms
- Customer Challenge
- Support of mobile workforce
- Flexibility for approval/denial
- Expedite process execution
- Customer benefits
- Users can manage simple tasks via Web-enabled
PDAs and mobile phones - Mobile users participate in manual tasks,
including process approvals/denials/etc. - Most popular mobile operating systems supported
on mobile devices - Maximum convenience for mobile process
owners/users - Supported platforms
- BlackBerry devices based on RIMOS (Research in
Motion Operating System) - Voice and phone devices, including PDAs and
smartphones running Windows Mobile 2003 and
Mobile 5 Phone Editions - PDAs running Palm OS
23New ActionsPatch and Security
- Customer Challenge
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Enforce security policy
- Security management
- Customer benefits
- Allow the most common LANDesk security tasks to
be initiated directly from within the workflow - Automate security tasks across organization
- Includes creation of custom security groups,
adding vulnerabilities to a group, acquiring
vulnerabilities, scan and repair vulnerabilities,
and autofix vulnerabilities settings
24New ActionsPatch and Security (cont.)
- Customer Challenge
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Enforce security policy
- Vulnerability management
25New ActionsManual Task/Request Information
- Customer Challenge
- Automate manual tasks
- Process flow flexibility
- Cost efficiency
- Customer benefits
- Allow manual steps within a workflow process
- Capture human task activities within a process
- This Action allows for manual assignment and
recording upon completion of the task - Includes assignment of task, task modification,
information requests and modification
26New ActionsTask Completion and UDD
- Customer Challenge
- Automate repetitive tasks
- Enforce configuration policy
- Lifecycle management
- Customer benefits
- Deploy management agent automatically to a newly
discovered device - Know when a step in the process completes
successfully - Task completion in tasks (software distribution)
- New UDD action to deploy agent to unmanaged
device - New add/delete device supports PC lifecycle
processes
27Interactive Forms
- Customer Challenge
- Cross-business processes
- Consistent dynamic information
- Audit / documentation trail
- Customer benefits
- Dynamically retrieve information from a consumer
during an active workflow - Dynamically present information to assist in
better decision making - Involve multiple people, roles and departments
in the process flow - Steps within process flows interact with process
consumers through InfoPath forms to accomplish
automation
28Process Integration with LANDesk Service Desk
- Customer Challenge
- Manage quality customer service lifecycle
- Consolidate incident, problem and change
- Enable service-level management
- Interface powerful, process-driven modeling with
Service Desk incident management, automatic
actions, assignment, service levels and
escalation capabilities - Service Desk actions
- Add assignment
- Add note
- Add task
- Create incident
- Close incident
- Get incident info
- Resolve incident
- Introduce and maintain Information Technology
Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices with
processes
29Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)Web Service
- Customer Challenge
- Integration expense
- Business agility
- Achieving ROI
- Customer benefits
- Reduce integration development expense
- Increase process reuse and business agility
- Reduce business risk through consistency
- Standards-based interface to disparate systems
- Reduce programming time and resources required
- Re-use (and multi-use) Web service activities
within the workflow process
30Enhanced Install ProcessNew Autorun
- Customer Challenge
- Ease of use
- Flexibility during installation
- In-place upgrade
- Customer benefits
- Simplified installation
- Automatic checking for prerequisite configuration
- One step upgrade from LANDesk Process Manager 2.0
- Message-based SDK (MBSDK) may be installed
separately
31EnhancementsUI and Web Application
- Customer Challenge
- Managing change
- Navigation
- Audit support
- Customer benefits
- Easier visualization and interaction with
required activities with addition of to-do
lists - Drives efficiency in the process with enhanced
Actions interface - New reports including time to complete and audit
history - Enhanced import/export of workflows now includes
event listeners
32LANDesk Process ManagerSummary
- LANDesk Process Manager provides
- Effective change governance control and
consistency - Enhanced audit capabilities supporting
regulatory requirements - Efficiency gains time management
- Process simplicity no development resources
needed - Increased visibility customer satisfaction
- Reduced risk adoption of best practices
Process management is only relevant if it
improves results or lowers costs provides VALUE!
33Backup
34Thank You
- Demonstration
- Questions and Answers
35Backup
36Pricing for LANDesk Process Manager
- LPM pricing is actually very simple
- The price is enterprise based on the number of
nodes. - The chart shows a price for a bundle, which
includes - License, two service days, workflow templates
- There is no additional cost by number of
approvers, workflows, etc. - PIMs cost either 10,000 or 20,000 depending on
which application
37Supported Environments
- Windows 2000 (with SP 4) or 2003
- Microsoft SQL Server (2000 or higher)
- A static IP address (only one network adapter in
the server) - The server you use for your core server must be
installed as a standalone server, not as a
primary domain controller (PDC), backup domain
controller (BDC), or Active Directory controller - The servers should be dedicated to hosting
Process Manager
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38Prerequisites
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
- Web Services Enhancements 2.0 SP3 for Microsoft
.NET - Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 or higher
- Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
- Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or 6.0
- Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 for SP3 for
Microsoft .NET - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- LANDesk Message-based SDK for LANDesk Management
Software integration
39Component Architecture
40Low-Level Process Integration
- VB script
- Java script
- WMI calls
- Web Service
- ODBC database
- SNMP (future)
- SQL API (future)
- Active Directory (future)
- C level API (future)