All of the governance, compliance, and automation features that App Portal with FlexNet Manager Suite provides are also available in App Broker for BMC.
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Out-of-the-box MyIT workflow for advanced license check and deployment—App Broker for BMC includes a MyIT workflow performs advanced license check and deployment, which is triggered when user submits a MyIT software request. This workflow is available as an update set that can be applied to any MyIT instance.
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Automatic import of App Portal catalog items into MyIT—A background task runs periodically to sync the App Portal catalog with MyIT and add catalog items to the MyIT service catalog.
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License compliance—App Broker for BMC leverages asset management data from FlexNet Manager, including product use rights and license entitlement data, to ensure proper governance and compliance over the request and installation of software. Licenses are reserved during the request process.
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Uses MyIT approval and notification features—When a MyIT user submits a software request, all notifications and approvals will be performed by MyIT; App Portal is just responsible for performing the license check and deployment.
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Reclamation of unused software—To further optimize software license consumption and reduce spending on new software licenses, App Broker (like App Portal) enables the automation of software reclamation to uninstall applications that are not used or rarely used.
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Automatic software deployment—App Broker automates the deployment of software through popular systems management and mobility management solutions that manage the growing diversity of today’s endpoint , including Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Symantec Altiris, JAMF Casper, and VMware AirWatch.
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Provision cloud services—In addition to performing automatic software deployment, you can use App Broker for BMC to provision cloud services like Office 365, Salesforce, and Box.
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Ability to view deployment status in MyIT—App Broker passes deployment status information (deployment complete, pending, or failed) back to MyIT.