SALT LAKE CITY – June 13, 2006 – Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced significant new updates to numerous IT asset management solutions to help drive savings through automated IT operations and improved IT governance, compliance and asset visibility.
The new PeopleSoft* Foundation Suite by Altiris and updates to other Altiris IT asset management solutions provide companies with various options to discover, track and manage IT assets to uncover and eliminate hidden costs, address compliance requirements, streamline processes, and achieve greater return on IT investments.
Steve Morton, Altiris VP of product management and marketing, said, “Altiris service and IT asset management solutions simplify the complexity of IT operations management and further distinguish Altiris from the competition. In today’s economy, companies are tasked to reduce IT costs while expenditures continue to grow as a percentage of overall capital costs. Altiris solutions help promote good governance, enable license compliance and manage IT costs and quality of service agreements.”
According to research authored by Enterprise Management Associates, “Altiris is distinctive in its approach to modeling asset information as an extension of its configuration item models within the CMDB. Asset information is natively modeled within the CMDB, rather than simply accessed from a separate data store, and includes contractual information, leases, warranties, SLAs and SLOs.”**
The New PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris
The PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris provides out-of-box integration with Oracle* PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials IT Asset Management Solution. With the PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris, IT organizations can control IT costs for licenses, hardware and service, help ensure compliance with software license agreements and regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, HIPAA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, optimize IT asset investments, and align IT help desk and software service resources with industry best practices.
The PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris populates the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise IT Asset Management repository with detailed IT asset inventory and usage data through the Altiris Connector for PeopleSoft, which provides one-way transfer of data from the Altiris configuration management database (CMDB).
Oracle Peoplesoft IT Asset Management integrates with Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management & PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM IT Help Desk to automatically reconcile physical and financial IT inventory, redeploy underutilized software, provide service agents with visibility into actual hardware/software configurations and help divisions meet growing compliance requirements.
Updated Altiris Asset Management Solutions
Altiris asset management solutions track IT assets to determine reallocation opportunities, promote accurate purchasing decisions, proactively manage vendor contracts and help deliver full utilization within the enterprise. Altiris provides a breadth and depth of native functionality through a project-based, extensible architecture, enhanced security, and shortcuts to the most common tasks. Updated solutions include:
- Altiris Application Metering Solution™ software
- Malware metering for improved security and operations
- Improved notifications of unauthorized software usage attempts
- A consolidated management console increases application data visibility
- Event batching for greater efficiency and scalability
- Altiris Asset Control Solution™ software and Altiris Contract Management Solution™ software
- Software license contract scoping and trending helps reduce license costs
- Securable reports
- User audit trail
- Many UI enhancements including new auto-fill selector, summary screens and reports, and notification policies
- Rolled-up Altiris TCO Management Solution™ functionality
- Altiris Barcode Solution™ software now offers support for Windows* Mobile 5.0
Licensing and availability
The PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris is now available and supports Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise IT Asset Management 8.9. Asset Control Solution 6.2 and Contract Management Solution 6.2 are now available. Application Metering Solution will be available in July. Asset Control, Contract Management and Application Metering Solutions are available as components of Altiris Service and Asset Management Suite or as standalone solutions. For more information, please contact your local Altiris sales representative by visiting www.altiris.com/sales.
About Altiris
Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks, and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including statements regarding the future availability of the Application Metering Solution product. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including but not limited to, risks associated with delays or difficulties in bringing such product to market, and such other risks as identified in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2006, and from time to time in other reports filed by Altiris with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Application Metering Solution, Asset Control Solution, Contract Management Solution and TCO Management Solution are trademarks of Altiris, Inc.
* Oracle and PeopleSoft are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.
** Enterprise Management Associates, “The CMDB Landscape: Market Directions, Vendor Solutions and IT Deployments,” June 2005. |