When it comes to management software, there's something to be said for double dipping. Take Aram Eblighantian's experience consulting for mailing giant Pitney Bowes. He bought the BigFix Enterprise Suite last year to help his client get its patching processes under control. Never did he anticipate that hed be using the same package to standardize client and server configurations across the company's network. "I would have definitely considered buying another product, especially to collect and standardize configurations," he says. "Because [the BigFix suite] is agent-based, it can return a fair amount of information on the clients and systems in the organization, down to the hardware properties, the locations of the machines and who logs on to them. From there it segues into asset management, then change management and so on."
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