Activate Today! Realize ROI with Intel® vPro™ Technology and Symantec Altiris

Join the team from the Intel® vPro™ Expert Center for an informative Webcast on the ROI savings and activation process for PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology and Symantec Altiris. This TechRepublic webinar is co-sponsored by Intel® Corporation and Symantec.

Activate Today! Realize ROI with Intel® vPro™ Technology and Microsoft System Configuration Manager

Join the team from the Intel® vPro™ Expert Center for an informative Webcast on the ROI savings and activation process for PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology and Microsoft System Configuration Manager. This TechRepublic webinar is co-sponsored by Intel® Corporation and Microsoft Corporation.

It's easy to list the benefits of better desktop management, but how does it affect the bottom line? Finding out is a matter of doing the sums - and the answers may surprise you.

"People don't want to do the maths - but they have to," says Stuart Dommett, enterprise client product manager at Intel®.

In their day to day work, IT managers use performance metrics to measure how well their systems are working, and that works very well. But when it comes to setting strategy and justifying strategic purchases, they have to do a different sort of maths: total cost of ownership (TCO), and return on investment (ROI) calculations.

"TCO is for cost-justification to measure the cost of IT to the business, but ROI is the measure of benefits versus cost - this is the justification of why you are going to implement a particular strategy," says Dommett.

Put simply, ROI is the point where IT meets the rest of the company. It's the basis of any strategy talks between the IT department and the finance director.

This Intel® VPro™ Resource Centre offers all the information and insight you need, from customer video case studies to in-depth buyers, to help make the case for investment based on driving ROI and lowering the TCO.

Buyer's Guide

How to ease the shift to mobile working

With momentum building behind mobile working, are higher costs inevitable when moving staff to laptops? Not necessarily. In fact it's possible to emerge with lower management overheads - and tighter security. Read on to find out more.

Keep Security on a tight rein

Data security is one of the cornerstones of the IT department. But as security threats evolve, IT managers have a tricky balance to strike - secure the client devices without impairing productivity. This article offers insight and advice how these objectives can be met.

Problems ease for managing multi-vendor fleets

CIOs can see the benefits of dealing with a single vendor. But they are equally loath to become locked into one supplier. This articles explores how important developments in management standards could solve that conundrum.

Time to future-proof desktop management

As business demands and user requirements shift, any IT management scheme has to hit a moving target. This article looks at how developments in processor technology can help cope with those constant changes.

Video Q&A and Vendorboard

Remote Management

Activating Intel®'s Active Management Technology in vPro™ can assist with remote diagnostics - whether the PC is switched on or off - and reduce engineering visits to a site. In this video Q&A Computacenter technology leader Darren Frost explains how.

Integration and Activation

Intel®'s Active Management Technology can deliver return on investment of up to 400 per cent but it's important to have an integration plan to get the full remote management, power efficiency and cost saving benefits of the technology. In this video Chris Green, managing director of event and specialist IT services company etherLive, explains the key stages businesses should address on the path to activating AMT from evaluating business requirements and ROI to pilot and then full production.

Integration and Activation Benefits

Activation Management Technology experts from Capgemini, etherLive, Computacenter and Intel® explain how the technology can increase control and security into the desktop environment, improve power management and drive down total cost of ownership.

Power Efficiency

In this video Chris Green, managing director of event and specialist IT services company etherLive, explains how Active Management Technology can improve power efficiency by enabling IT managers to wake up and switch off PCs remotely and overnight when deploying software applications and patches, as well as reducing deskside visits.

Vendorboard - Active Management Technology

In this video whiteboard Stuart Dommett, enterprise client product manager at Intel®, explains how activating Intel®'s Active Management Technology in vPro™ computers enables remote management and diagnostics, improves power efficiency and boosts security.