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System Center products offer an open platform for developing value-added solutions for our mutual customers. Our philosophy is to ensure that our platform enables the people with the best knowledge for managing an application, platform, system, or device to easily embed that knowledge into our products. Whether that knowledge has to do with health or configuration information, System Center is the ideal platform for our partners to innovate on top of, to ensure our customers have a holistic solution for managing their environment.
System Center has had significant growth and customer acceptance over the last few years. This is illustrated by our overall growth rate, which is outstripping the industry average, according to IDC. We are now the fourth-largest system management vendor in the industry and growing! The System Center market share is growing at 13.2 percent versus 7.5 percent industry average for distributed Systems Management Software market growth. Partners who enable System Center solutions enjoy a well-established customer base across all sizes of businesses and industries.
Our success started with our ability to be the best-of-breed management solution for Windows and, through our partners, has expanded to managing non-Microsoft solutions and products.
To help companies advance from costly and inefficient IT environments, Microsoft offers guidance in the form of the Infrastructure Optimization Model. See how System Center fits into Core Infrastructure Optimization.
Furthermore, note the following advantages in developing for System Center:
System Center supports standards, like WS-Management, to lower the cost and complexity of IT management.
System Center uses Service Modeling Language (SML) to model complex IT services and systems, including their structure, constraints, policies, and best practices.
Introduction to SML
Read this specification
Using Windows PowerShell command-line shell and scripting language you can easily control system administration and accelerate automation of those dynamic IT systems.
Windows PowerShell SDK
Getting Started Guide and Quick Reference
If you are a new System Center development partner, refer to System Center Products for basic resources to get you introduced to the family.
System Center Web sites
Why Develop for System Center?
