Tivoli Provisioning Manager

Provisioning Manager has the following benefits which we have found our customers find most useful:

• Pristine Installation on bare metal.  Once you have plugged a device into the network TPM can be used to deploy the OS to that box.  Using your existing build mechanism or using TPM for OS Deployment (REMBO Server)
• Coming with a workflow engine TPM allows for the automation of packages for almost any of your Data Centre tasks .  A rich out of the box set of workflows already come with the product and any complex procedures you have can be written into workflows to allow for a reduction in time and costs for deployment.
•  Virtual environments are supported in both discovery and deployment taking away the administrative headaches of managing a virtualised environment.
• Windows and Linux patch management solution are easily implemented allowing you to have full control over your assets and ensure the upmost security across your estate.
•  A easy to setup discovery and inventory function allows you to keep informed about your assets.
• Peer  to Peer distribution and the Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) allows the best use of your network resources – ensuring the bandwidth usage of the product remains in line with your requirements.

Whether it be a new install or a transition from an existing product such as Tivoli Configuration Manager and whether you are simply looking for an automated patch management solution for your Windows estate or a fully automated provisioning solution from bare-metal builds to automatically provisioning the software required on each server and desktop; Portal Partnership has the experience and skills to ensure your implementation is a success from the start and so ensuring you see the benefits from the get go.

We have the skills and vision to take you current provisioning problems and, leveraging TPM, ensure those problems are solved. 

Portal Partnership can: 

• Supply the skills and experience to design and implement TPM for you and ensure that it is installed to all best practices so you start seeing the benefits from day one.
• Package your current applications (whether they be currently manual installs or using another packaging tool) in order to fully use all the benefits of TPM.
• Setup patch management for your estate to industry best standards, ensuring you remain in control of your estate at all times.
• Develop and Implement specific workflows.  Ensuring that any process or procedure you need automated – is automated.
• Design and Implement your TPM for Operating Systems Deployment to ensure you may readily deploy new assets or reassign new assets as soon as they are required.
• Setup compliance and remediation to ensure your assets remain problem free for as long as possible.  Using the core product and developing workflows to your meet your specification we can ensure that your assets remain compliant throughout their life.

For further information about our business automation services please contact:

martin.dixon@portalpartnership.com