With the first half of the year now behind us, and following our current cadence of quarterly updates, we continue to support our customers by releasing a third Identity Director update for 2020. Where the 2020.1 release of Identity Director focused on password resets—aiming to help both users and organizations as more and more employees work from home—the current release is all about empowering the users to be in control.

As part of our re-affirmed commitment to customers, Ivanti formed an Independent Business Unit that consists of a dedicated set of Ivanti products and services with the single purpose of pleasing its customers by providing long term value. This new unit’s development is driven by our customers’ feedback and requirements. We are pleased to announce our most recent release for Ivanti Service Desk 2018.3 - update 14!

If you are an IT professional, you are technical. You love technology. You love to dabble. You enjoy the thrill that comes from troubleshooting problems and finding a solution. But you probably don’t want to troubleshoot and fix problems all day. There are other interesting things to do. IT can be strategic in helping companies improve their top and bottom line. The complexity of IT continues to increase. The good news is that the need for talented IT staff also continues to grow.

Your worst nightmare: a failure, a breakdown or any other inconvenience that can disrupt the smooth running of your daily activities that happens at the worst possible time. When you need your equipment, its reliability is absolutely paramount. In the absence of proper and functioning equipment, you’re not only wasting time, but you’re also jeopardizing employee productivity and the reputation of your service, all while seeing an increasement of operational cost.

Today is the day! We've just published this press release announcing our brand new Ivanti Neurons platform! What it is: Ivanti Neurons is a new hyper-automation platform that empowers organizations to proactively, predictably and autonomously self-heal and self-secure devices, and self-service end users. Ivanti Neurons augments IT teams with automation bots that detect and resolve issues and security vulnerabilities while improving the accuracy, speed and costs of services IT delivers.

The world is changing fast, and for IT departments, demands are increasing exponentially. The challenges in today’s environment are like a tidal wave coming at organizations. There is unmanageable complexity due to the explosive growth of endpoints and IoT devices—generating and processing data all the way to the edge. Cybersecurity threats are reaching catastrophic new heights and present significant risk to companies.

No company likes to admit that it loses money because of poor inventory management. Whether it’s because you’ve lost the equipment or you don’t know who has it in their hands, you’re wasting time trying to find it, and as they say, time is money… Have you thought about inventory management with a barcode scanner? It’s best to take care of your inventory, and barcode scanner(s) might be the solution.