Hello all,
We have been talking about real-time IT and its importance in business for quite a while now. One of the most important aspects of real-time IT is continuous monitoring which definitely is not an easy task as it involves sitting in front of a computer round–the–clock to monitor your IT infrastructure.
By integrating operations and service management under one console, with ManageEngine IT360 we successfully eliminated IT silos which previously existed in our customers’ environments. Moving ahead with the advancement in technology, which has become mobile, cooler and faster with every passing year, we are introducing a whole new interface for IT360 that is completely optimized for an Apple iPad. This development in IT360 comes with the intention to keep our customers updated with the latest technology that IT360 has to offer and make their lives less office-dependent.
Version 9050, which is due to be released by the end of March this year, will enable customers to use their iPads to monitor IT infrastructure using IT360. We have uploaded a live demo of IT360 for the iPad on our Website. Do go through the live demo using your iPad as we have disabled the desktop access for this particular link. We have also placed few screenshots on the Web page to give you a glance of what the product looks like and how it functions on an iPad. For the first version we have enabled features like Infrastructure Views, Alarms and Business Services. We will be adding rest of the features in subsequent releases.
Some questions that you could have after reading about this latest development from ManageEngine IT360 are as follows:
1. IT360 already has a Web UI. How is the UI for an iPad different from the existing Web interface?
Yes, IT360 has a Web UI but it has been designed to work perfectly on a desktop or a laptop. However, with the iPad and other tablets it was essential to create an interface which matched perfectly with the form factor of an iPad to give the user a smooth experience.
2. Which edition of IT360 does an iPad currently support?
We have developed and tested the professional edition of IT360 for the iPad. We shall be extending support for the Enterprise and MSP editions for the iPad very soon. Subsequent releases will also see other features, which are currently available in desktop version, added to the UI for the iPad.
3. Will this new advancement eventually have all the features of desktop?
No, this extension is only meant for professionals who are mostly on-the-go and have very little time to sit at one place in front of a computer to view the status of critical IT infrastructure. All the configurations and permission access will always be only available in the desktop application. Moreover the current interface will only have read-only access.
Cheers,
Suvish
Related Links:
IT360 for iPad demo: http://ow.ly/9f6Eq
Press Release:http://ow.ly/9f6Ck
