How Dell Does IT: Microsoft Configuration Manager 2007

“Microsoft Configuration Manager 2007 has transformed operating system maintenance and deployment at Dell from a rigid, labor-intensive chore to a highly automated and flexible business process that can be quickly adapted to meet new requirements.”

- Donnie Taylor, infrastructure engineer, Dell Inc.

Streamline and automate time-consuming manual processes that hindered the Dell IT infrastructure team as they installed, updated, tracked, and reported on the applications and operating systems of tens of thousands of client and server systems worldwide.

Microsoft^®  System Center Configuration Manager 2007 helped the IT team recapture lost time and reduce costs by streamlining and automating operating system installation, improving the speed of asset reporting, and tracking application usage in real time.

• Get IT Faster: Reduced software asset reporting time by an estimated 60 percent
• Run IT Better: Increased reporting speed helps reduce software license costs; decreased time required for maintaining operating system images by approximately 75 percent
• Grow IT Smarter: Improved speed of software licensing estimates with real-time usage tracking; reduced audit reporting time and improved maintenance of critical systems with the Desired Configuration Management feature