The integrated capabilities in Microsoft System Center give your IT team a centralized view of your agency’s entire environment—not just of isolated functional silos. With the ability to manage and monitor the full, heterogeneous spectrum of your agency’s software and hardware, System Center quickly identifies root cause analysis of disrupted services using out-of-the-box intellectual property, to support your distributed applications. IT pros can configure assets for optimal performance and help ensure that your mission-critical systems and services are operating at their fullest potential.

Even as virtualization technology provides key benefits for your agency, integrating the physical and virtual environments increases complexity. System Center simplifies the management of operating systems, applications, and services—whether they’re running in physical or virtual environments—by providing a consistent set of tools with Microsoft product support knowledge, along with IT Information Library and Microsoft Operations Framework processes that your IT team can use across the entire enterprise.

With rich operational guidance, workflow processes, and embedded knowledge based on industry standards System Center supports IT pros in achieving best practices and helps them increase productivity by automating repetitive processes, such as operating system deployment and software provisioning. System Center integration of Opalis increases the flexibility to automate more mundane tasks. System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 supports data backup and restoration for Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL Server.

Because it can be deployed out of the box and quickly customized to meet your agency’s specific requirements, System Center can begin earning back its cost immediately. In addition, System Center partners with industry leaders to provide further monitoring and management capabilities for both Microsoft and UNIX / Linux solutions, so you can implement the precise solutions your agency needs to optimize existing IT investments and to help reduce the total cost of ownership.