The release of Prism Suite® 9. Powered by the company's automated configuration management innovations like Smart Update™ and Configuration Groups, Prism Suite 9 extends Windows configuration management to now include secure, Internet-based administration of the mobile workforce and widely distributed remote locations has been announced by the IT automation innovator, New Boundary Technologies®. Prism Suite 9, with an open client/server architecture and modular design, is engineered to automate and streamline processes within corporate IT departments and for delivery via managed service provider (MSP) and software as a service (SaaS) models.

Prism Suite 9 delivers robust, safe, and seamless Windows system management for any location, from any location. Prism Suite 9, engineered for the needs of IT departments that manage widely dispersed office locations and mobile Windows systems, is also ideally positioned to provide managed service providers with an automated Windows configuration and compliance offering that can be delivered as an online service.

To deliver continuous, real-time compliance with organizational IT standards and regulatory measures, Prism Suite, powered by scalable technologies that enable dynamic Windows configuration management, automates asset management, software packaging and deployment, and software patching. Some of the new features of Prism Suite 9 include:

    * Enhanced, secure functionality and performance over the Internet for remote and mobile workforce management.
    * Decentralized deployment of software and configuration tasks that improve performance and optimize bandwidth use.
    * Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) support that delivers more flexibility in dynamically grouping systems for performing management tasks.
    * Efficient, reliable packaging of 64-bit software that speeds deployment of large, complex applications.

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