SALT LAKE CITY – Nov. 14, 2006 – Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced that a new Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™1 study2, commissioned by Altiris, has demonstrated that IT organizations can realize positive return on investment and quantifiable business benefits by implementing Altiris® Total Management Suite™ software.
The study created a composite company based on interviews conducted with Altiris customers and determined that the ROI for this company would be 87 percent with a payback period within 13 months after deployment of Altiris products.
The Forrester Consulting study created a medium-sized, multi-national composite organization based upon interviews conducted with five customers using Altiris Total Management Suite. Benefits of using Total Management Suite accruing to the composite company amounted to approximately $2.3 million during a three-year period.
By aggregating the findings from the customer interviews and constructing a composite organization, the study illustrates the risk-adjusted financial benefits of implementing Total Management Suite.
According to the study, customers using Total Management Suite can achieve:
- Lower software license costs
- Cost savings through remote backup
- Faster, cheaper re-imaging of PC and servers
- Reduced hardware inventory
- Lower labor costs associated with IT asset auditing
- Greater reduced costs for software migration
- Fewer service desk calls
- Faster patch management
“Altiris Total Management Suite helps our customers rapidly realize the benefits of service-oriented management,” said Carine Clark, Altiris VP of marketing. “The results of this study confirm and validate what we’ve always known -- Altiris software helps IT organizations meet business objectives, improve IT service, reduce costs and enforce security.”
Total Management Suite is the industry’s most comprehensive service-oriented management solution designed to help IT organizations manage, secure and support all IT assets, promoting efficient and cost-effective service delivery.
To view the entire study, please visit http://www.altiris.com/Campaigns/TEI.aspx.
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.
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Total Management Suite is a trademark of Altiris, Inc.
1 The other company names or products mentioned are or may be trademarks of their respective owners.
2 Forrester Consulting, “The Total Economic Impact of the Altiris Total Management Suite Software,” Jeffrey North and Sadaf Roshan, Sept. 2006. |