CONFIGURESOFT

Configuresoft

Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) from Configuresoft is a proven solution delivering Configuration Intelligence for IT.

 

Hundreds of organizations, including 13 of the world's 25 largest companies, rely on Configuresoft to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of today's physical and virtualized IT environments.

 

ECM delivers the following benefits:
  • increase application availability to improve service levels;
  • manage and measure server compliance;
  • delivers an easy way to enforce IT security and compliance policy:
    • provide visibility of configuration changes, and identify the change as planned or unplanned;
    • providing remediation to fix unauthorized changes;
  • enforces security from inside out by continuously assessing the security posture of systems and by enforcing security policies. When a threat is detected;
  • assess the patch deployments and prioritize the patching process across the enterprise;
  • automated audit process.


Proven Return on Investment

Using Configuresoft Operations Manager, customers across various industries have realized immediate value from its implementation. As the underlying driver for orchestration, provisioning, configuration and change control, and compliance, Configuresoft Operations Manager has enabled customers to save time and cut costs. A representation of savings include:

 

 

Before Configuresoft

After Configuresoft

Time Saved

Initial Server Provisioning
Install operating system & OS configurations
Deploy middleware and applications
Deploy custom code and content

 

240 hours
8.3 hours
8.3 hours
40 hours
4 minutes
5 minutes
83.3%
99.2%
99.0%

Ongoing & Planned Change
Patch Window servers
Update custom code on multi-tier Web application
Rotate passwords

 

14.3 days
8.3 hours
8.3 hours
14 hours
5 minutes
1 minute
83.0%
99.0%
99.8%

Ad-hoc & Unplanned Change
De-provision a user from all servers
OS configuration updates
Check license utilization

 

16 hours
8.3 hours
16 hours
6 minutes
3 minutes
1 minute
99.4%
99.4%
99.9%

Managing Consistency & Compliance
Inventory software, patches, configurations
Audit servers against a security policy
Remediate non-compliant servers

 

10.3 hours
8.3 hours
16.6 hours
4 minutes
4 minutes
4 minutes
99 .3%
99.2%
99.6%

Time Savings

97 .1%

 

 

Key Features of Configuresoft Operations Manager

Catagory

Features

Benefits

Discovery Manager

Discover, record, and access server configuration data

Real-time and historical visibility into configuration and change attributes

Identify dependencies between servers and applications

Lower costs associated with identifying and capturing rich inventory information

Reduce maintenance costs associated with updating inventory

Minimize problem resolution costs by identifying dependencies among elements

Compliance Manager

Define security & configuration policies for servers and applications based on best practices (CIS, NSA, NIST, COBIT, ITIL etc.)

Rules-based auditing that allows sophisticated audit scenarios to be modeled with flexibility for compliance measurement

Schedule and trigger automatic audits to identify non-compliant instances and trends

Support remediation through repair, rollbacks, or configuration updates

Rich analytics to identify drifts from compliance and configuration change perspectives

Access Controls based on roles, privileges and target configuration items

Minimize service downtime costs by expediting rollback, or updating or reverting to the last consistent state

Improve audits beyond a mere "exists or not" approach

Lower costs associated with enforcing policies from multiple drivers - regulatory, operations, standards, best practices, and security

Generate metrics to document compliance and identify process improvements required to lower costs over time

Granular configuration item level access control to audit and track change activities

Configuration Manager

Policy definitions to automate updates for patches, packages, and configurations based on service and vendor standards

Support pre-screening for any potential errors prior to committing changes

Support rollback to the last known consistent state

Reduce maintenance costs through automation and elimination of errors

Lower service downtime costs by expediting mean time to repair

Configuration Manager Network Shell™

Provides centralized, secure console for ad hoc querying and actions using standard scripting (Perl, Python) and Network Shell™, a network aware shell for UNIX (Zsh)

Supports Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities to facilitate easy cross platform, cross-server administration

Reduce maintenance costs through automation and elimination of errors

Lower service downtime costs by expediting mean to repair time

Provisioning Manager

Automate provisioning across platforms from bare metal level to full stack for servers

Establish and implement policies at multiple levels – bare OS, full stack, and applications

Lower setup costs by automating existing manual and error-prone procedures

Reduce provisioning costs by consolidating and centralizing all activities independent of platform

Reporting and Analytics

Inventory analysis

Configuration analysis

Change analysis

Compliance analysis

Improve compliance over time by correlating changes to policies

Identify labor costs by function

Generate reports based on best practices and accepted governance frameworks like COBIT and ITIL