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Avocent Unveils Major Upgrade to Effectively Manage the Service Desk
August 2009 by Marc Jacob
Avocent Corporation announced a significant upgrade to its LANDesk® Service Desk IT Business Management Suite, which increases productivity, improves service quality, and reduces IT management costs. The new version, generally available immediately, continues to execute on Avocent’s LANDesk product line strategy of providing comprehensive, integrated service desk and IT service, infrastructure and asset management solutions for the data center to the desktop.
With this latest release, IT organisations can achieve higher productivity because of its tight and rich integration with LANDesk solutions and systems, enabling a quicker return on investment when compared to competitive offerings. Organisations are looking for solutions that grow with them as they evolve from basic incident management to more long-term IT goals and proactive ITIL service management disciplines, such as problem and change management. LANDesk Service Desk 7.3 enables better analysis for IT assets, so more informed business decisions about service quality across the enterprise can be made. By incorporating key performance indicators (KPIs) into the service desk, Avocent’s LANDesk product line is helping to solve IT complexities for everyone from service desk managers to IT directors.
The upgraded LANDesk Service Desk solution provides powerful new features such as a Web Desk application and enhanced dashboards to drive more proactive service management so the service desk can quickly resolve incidents, allowing analysts more time to work on resolutions and prevention. Web Desk allows access to LANDesk Service Desk from any location via an Internet connection. This is ideal for those on the move as it requires no local installation.
The main features in LANDesk Service Desk 7.3 include:
· New LANDesk Web Desk Application – A brand new browser application provides business users access to LANDesk Service Desk from remote or mobile locations.
· Integration with SolarWinds® Orion® NPM (Network Performance Monitor), a leading network management product, via the new Event Management functionality that allows events occurring on the network to be automatically reported to the service desk.
· Enhancements to Query Results – Several significant upgrades allow easier and faster results for users to design and interact with queries, making service management more efficient.
· Multiple Dashboards – Enhanced graphical dashboards enable users to have one or more dashboards that can be published and administered centrally.
· Calculations on Queries and Forms – Extending Service Desk’s proactive service management capabilities, many new mathematical functions can be performed, enabling real-time calculations on data on forms, queries and related processes, as well as ‘on-demand’ calculations.
