Covington & Burling Selects ON Command CCM From ON Technology to Dynamically
Manage Desktop PCs
Business Wire - November 09, 1998 08:45
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1998--
Extraordinary Success Rate Achieved With the Roll-0ut of 600 New PC Desktops in Under Two Weeks
ON Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:ONTC) today announced that Covington & Burling, one of the nation's largest law firms, has deployed ON
Command CCM(TM) (Comprehensive Client Manager), the industry's leading open and scalable enterprise desktop management system, for dynamic control
of their 1000+ worldwide PC network. Covington & Burling has leveraged ON Command CCM's pre-operating system technology and native installation
approach to rollout over 800 PC desktops, with over 600 of those PCs deployed in less than two weeks. Using ON Command CCM has saved the law firm
potentially reduced productivity with the rapid deployment of new PCs and routine software updates.
"I have not seen a more comprehensive product to distribute an entire desktop including the operating system than ON Command CCM on the market today.
This product gives you the flexibility to have dynamic control of your network," said Stuart Franklin, information technology manager, Covington & Burling. "I
can easily roll out new PCs, service applications and software packages without any loss of user productivity. ON Command CCM gives us a definite technical
advantage and has already given Covington & Burling a substantial return on our investment."
Rolling Out New PCs and Software Updates is Fast and Easy
Covington & Burling needed dynamic control of their PC desktops and realized that there was no way to do this solely with the conventional desktop
management tools that only send a traditional "snapshot" to each PC for software or operating system distribution. ON Command CCM provides a native
installation approach which runs the setup.exe remotely on each PC. The native installation approach allows for custom configurations to be created simply by
editing a parameter table, rather than creating a new snapshot image for every installation. This approach also allows network engineers and administrators to
take full advantage of plug and play features in software such as Windows 95 so that new operating systems are installed efficiently, just as if the software were
installed manually at the desktop.
ON Command CCM has saved Covington & Burling potentially lost productivity by greatly speeding up the process of rolling out new PCs, operating systems
and software upgrades. Covington & Burling has used ON Command CCM to roll out over 800 new PC desktops, with 30-35 software applications and
Windows 95 on each. Six hundred of these PC desktops were rolled out in just under two weeks. It now takes the IT department only 15 minutes to roll out a
new application or upgrade per 30 to 40 PCs. Before using ON Command CCM, the law firm's IT department originally deployed 340 PC desktops using
snapshot technology and had to reinstall on many occasions due to the inability of snapshot technology to use plug and play technology to auto-correct for
software and hardware faults. Now, with ON Command CCM, Covington & Burling has a 98% software deployment success rate with the remaining 2%
attributed to PC hardware failure.
Covington & Burling is now using ON Command CCM for routine software updates. Without ON Command CCM, it would take the IT department 30
minutes to set-up and deploy new software updates to all of its PCs, resulting in over 500 hours of work. Instead, using ON Command CCM requires only 15
minutes of set up for all PCs and updates are automatically deployed according to schedule at the user's next login.
About ON Command CCM
ON Command CCM provides a unique pre-OS and network booting technology that allows operating systems and applications to be instantaneously
deployed to multiple client PCs simultaneously, from centralized Windows NT or Unix servers, for immediate installation and configuration. ON Command
CCM is also used to deploy Y2K desktop compliance tests, application fixes and upgrades, operating system updates and patches, and BIOS updates. The
system supports a range of desktops including DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT. ON Command CCM significantly reduces Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) and enhances IT quality of service by automating enterprise-wide OS migrations and large-scale deployments of new PCs while providing
continuous configuration capabilities.
About ON Technology Corporation
ON Technology Corporation is a publicly traded company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1985, ON Technology Corporation offers ON
Command CCM and Meeting Maker, open and scalable solutions that deliver financial, operational and strategic benefits for enterprise networks. Additional
information concerning ON Technology Corporation can be found at www.on.com.
ON Technology, ON Command CCM and Meeting Maker are trademarks of ON Technology Corporation. All other brand names and trademarks are
properties of their respective owners.
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including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to customer orders, demand for products and services, development of markets for the Company's
products and services and other risks identified in the Company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to
release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
CONTACT: Schwartz Communications
Michelle Holtz, 781/684-0770
michelleh@schwartz-pr.com
or
ON Technology
Louise Bernardi, 617/692-3033
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