”The complexity of APM solutions will continue to decrease , making them lower cost and easily implemented.” Jonah Kowall Research Director in Gartner’s IT Operations Research Group ”Smaller [APM] boxes/solutions with less features but advanced capabilities and an emphasis on ease of use, to target mission critical pain points, will do well in the wider market.” Michael Azoff Principal Analyst, Ovum Towards the end of 2013, Gartner, Ovum, and other industry experts sounded the death knell for monolithic, end-to-end APM solutions with exhaustive feature sets. With an alarming degree of certainty, the experts heralded the rise of “small-box, point solutions.” Meanwhile, ManageEngine’s Applications Manager held its own as an end-to-end solution in the global APM industry
Auditing Changes to Group Policy Settings
The complexities of managing a Microsoft Windows Server infrastructure are critically dependent on the numerous Group Policies, each of which is a collection of settings that IT administrators or users use to centrally enforce security settings and other functional settings to users or computers across the network. The downside of a just single setting error will cause inevitable chain of events involving accesses or permissions, which should not have been authorized in the first place, and ultimately compromise IT security and irreversibly damage the organization’s data and reputation.
Six Steps to Implementing Change Management that Works
Solid change management capability will help you boost your ITSM maturity, break out of the “firefighting mode,” align IT activity with business objectives, and transform IT from a service provider to a business innovator. However, these benefits don’t come easily
ADManager Plus: Creating Users in Bulk by Importing a CSV File
It is extremely common for a company to hire employees in mass. It might be a school with a new school year, a corporation hiring interns for the summer, a business which is hiring contractors for a project, or a result of two companies merging. Regardless of the reason, being able to create new users in Active Directory should be simple and easy
Delegating “Disabling of Active Directory Users” to a Department Manager
We all know it happens the exact same way each time.
Windows Phone Support Added to Desktop Central’s MDM Menu
Mobile devices are an integral part of today’s enterprises. And, Windows phones are gaining traction in many organizations
Take Control of Multi-Vendor Storage Environments with ManageEngine OpStor
Today, more enterprises are adopting a multi-vendor storage strategy to meet their exploding storage requirements. Why? Because introducing a second storage vendor helps companies get the best prices from the vendors and thereby reduces total cost of ownership by at least 15% to 25% over a five-year time frame, according to Gartner.
Desktop Central Makes the Magic Quadrant
Drum roll, please! We’ve been recognized in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, specifically the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools.
How to Track Down Inactive Users in Active Directory
We can all fall behind on our “simple” tasks in lieu of accomplishing more difficult duties. One such task is staying on top of user accounts in Active Directory that have not been used in a while. These user accounts need to be managed to ensure that security is maintained around the use of these accounts
World Cup Soccer Meets World-Class Help Desk!
Soccer stirs the passions of fans throughout the world. And with the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil just hours away, people from every field of endeavor find themselves united by a common bond that sends their emotions surging with excitement and anticipation