The new version of Ivanti Automation [acquired last year from RES] is the first that is fully integrated with the other Ivanti solutions, while Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager, brings together the old Landesk Endpoint Manager and the Ivanti Environment Manager Policy, a former AppSense product.
Ivanti also completes the integration of their partner program, adding partners from the Shavlik and RES Software programs into the mix, and brings additional resources on board to work with partners.
The RES brand will disappear, and its technology will be folded into the Ivanti service management and digital workspace businesses.
LANDESK had been working on rebranding itself for nine months, and the bringing together of the company with HEAT Software into Ivanti provides an ideal opportunity to create a brand – and a strategy around it – to cross-market and cross-sell all the company’s solutions.
LANDESK CEO Steve Daly, who will head the new firm created by merging LANDESK and HEAT, talks about how HEAT will enhance LANDESK’s service management business, especially on the MSP side. He also discusses integration issues, the new company’s strategy, and channel issues — as well as why the new firm will likely have a new name.
Current LANDESK CEO Steve Daly will become CEO of the new company – as yet unnamed. HEAT CEO John Ferron becomes the Executive Chairman of the new company’s Board of Directors.
HEAT has not had an out-of-the-box offering designed for MSPs to date, and is remedying that with HEAT MSP Cloud, which adds new features and capabilities specifically for MSPs to the core HEAT cloud service management offering.
The strategic acquisition of assets Absolute wanted to divest to focus on its core business continues HEAT’s transition from FrontRange’s old SMB business to an integrated endpoint management platform that increasingly appeals to enterprises
