System Center Advisor

In our real time, global economy where product life cycles are short, companies need to be good at bringing new products to market and tailoring existing products to keep up with shifting customer preferences.

In its ongoing search for new products and new markets companies like Microsoft engage in growth by expanding the existing business units and by merge with others by acquiring other companies. During this process Microsoft has not stop delivering new products and line of products.

The value proposition delivered by most companies lies in the way they manage their business processes, not their technology. Technology is a mean to this end, but technology is not an end in itself.

Since the cloud is the new frontier for the new business era, Microsoft is developing new products and solution every day, making the company the number one partner for its business process, helping them to reach their goal with solid and reliable solution.

A new product that Microsoft has recently announce is System Center Advisor formerly known as Project Atlanta. SC Advisor is available in the Release Candidate version and soon will be available RTM. SC Advisor together with Windows Intune are making traditional in-house services like desktop management and monitoring available right from the cloud.

Taking right from the Microsoft site (https://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/Advisor.aspx

) here a brief description:

System Center Advisor (formerly Microsoft codename Atlanta) is a cloud service that enables IT professionals to assess their server configuration and proactively avoid problems. With System Center Advisor, support staff are able to resolve issues faster by accessing current and historical configuration data, all with the security features that meet their needs. Additionally, System Center Advisor helps reduce downtime by providing suggestions for improvement, and notifying customers of key updates specific to their configuration.

Proactively avoid problems

· Increase awareness around the state of server deployment through assessment of configuration, and alerts for configuration-related issues.

· Resolve issues before they become critical through ongoing assessments of the server environment for undetected configuration issues.

· Assess and understand server configurations from virtually anywhere from a cloud service with security features that meet customer needs.

Resolve issues faster

· Decrease time to resolve issues by easily viewing configuration changes over time with historical data.

· Decrease time to resolve issues with the ability to share server configuration data with internal support staff or Microsoft Customer Support Services.

· Accelerate problem solving with instant access to step by step guidance , self-help information and community forums related to identified issues.

Help reduce downtime and improve performance

· Increase performance and availability of servers by understanding configuration state and receiving suggestions for improvement to help ensure availability.

· Help reduce server downtime by getting notifications for key updates specific to the configuration of the server environment.

· Increase collaboration between IT professionals through centralized data of an organization’s deployment configurations.