HP announced it is offering LANDesk management solutions directly to business customers, enabling them to boost end-user productivity and more easily secure and connect devices across their environment.

Through this collaboration with LANDesk Software, HP business customers of all sizes can use LANDesk Management Suite to reduce the PC setup time for end users from hours to minutes.

By eliminating the need to stage deployments through IT departments, LANDesk management solutions help companies to increase efficiency and reduce cost while also resolving IT concerns like energy conservation, device and BIOS management, retail operating system and reporting support, and hardware-failure alerts.

“HP is committed to helping commercial customers mitigate issues that result in lost time, money and productivity,” said Dan Forlenza, vice president and general manager, Commercial Clients Global Business Unit, HP. “This collaboration brings unique capabilities to HP customers in the area of client management, end-point security and IT service management,” said Mike Hall, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing, LANDesk Software. “We look forward to the continued integration of our joint solutions.”

HP business customers can leverage the powerful remote hardware management capabilities of the LANDesk software suite to reduce the need for costly, time-consuming desk-side visits by their IT department.

Automatic acquisition and remote deployment of the latest HP updates allows customers to easily install and deploy drivers and hardware and firmware updates from HP for their PCs.

Customers also can use one-to-many BIOS and firmware configuration changes to modify all settings on supported PCs. Furthermore, proactive hardware health alerting takes the guesswork out of thermal PC conditions and proactively senses potential hard drive failure.