Enterprise application management
Enforce IT policies, reclaim unused software licenses, and manage software lifecycles, backed by the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform’s real-time intelligence, AI-driven automation, and autonomous workflows. Use ring-based deployments to support progression criteria and deferred targeting to minimize disruption and maximize control.
AI-powered software management
AI with Tanium Ask enhances software lifecycle management by identifying out-of-date or unapproved tools and enabling autonomous workflows to remediate them. These agentic capabilities accelerate investigation, streamline updates, and reduce manual effort, helping IT teams maintain compliance and reduce risk across the environment.
Maintaining IT environments at scale
A streamlined software management process unifies deployment and compliance enforcement, enables rapid and accurate software updates, simplifies audit readiness, detects and swiftly addresses vulnerabilities, and equips organizations with robust tracking and reporting of software assets.
Regulatory and policy compliance
Enforce system and user policies across endpoints. Monitor and report on compliance status for audits and internal governance.
Reduce risk
Lower risk from unapproved or outdated software. Patch and update endpoints to prevent exploitation of known vulnerabilities.
Optimize costs
Reduce downtime and support costs through proactive software management. Reclaim unused software and avoid penalties by maintaining compliance.
Improve operational efficiency
Automate software distribution and policy enforcement to reduce manual effort while benefiting from faster deployment and update cycles.
Tanium is critical throughout the entire software lifecycle
Tanium unifies software management, compliance enforcement, and real-time intelligence to automate deployment updates and policy adherence.
Automated ring-based deployment
Minimize manual effort and endpoint disruption as you rapidly distribute and update software across endpoints in controlled phases.
Enforce compliance and reduce risk
Identify approved and licensed software and remove unauthorized applications. Quickly address vulnerabilities and configuration drift through automated updates.
Track and report
Maintain a real-time inventory and create audit-ready documentation and dashboards that support compliance and operational requirements.
Enterprise application management with Tanium
Get end-to-end lifecycle management of third-party software. With Tanium you can confirm that the right software is installed, licensed, and compliant across the enterprise, with full visibility and control.
Discover and inventory software
Identify third-party applications installed across endpoints, including version, configuration details, and usage.
With Tanium organizations can:
Discover
Find third-party software in your environment
Identify
Know which devices are running which third-party applications
Understand software bill-of-materials (SBOM)
Search installed software for individual components
Control certificate management
Create, search, and manage security certificates for third-party software
Assess compliance and risk
Evaluate whether third-party software aligns with defined policies and regulatory standards and identify compliance gaps and risks.
With Tanium organizations can:
Evaluate
Assess the compliance of your installed software based on real-time endpoint intelligence
Benchmark
Compare and improve your IT risk metrics against your industry peers
Stay informed
Receive alerts, insights, and remediation actions for installed software within the Tanium console
Deploy, update, or remove third-party software
Once third-party software is deployed, organizations must routinely deploy, patch, reconfigure, or remove software as required to support compliant software configurations and remediate issues.
With Tanium organizations can:
Schedule
Define maintenance windows and/or deployment schedules to distribute software
Bundle
Define software bundles to define baselines and chain application installation or leverage the software package gallery to automatically deploy vendor updates
Automate
Create automated deployment and patching workflows for third-party software
Reclaim
Remove unused or unauthorized third-party software, application, or utility
Validate, report, and audit
Measure the success rate of software management activities in terms of installation, impact, and compliance. Generate compliance reports for audits and internal stakeholders.
With Tanium, organizations can:
Report
Detailed metrics such as installation success rate, application crash frequency
Monitor
Track performance indicators to assess the effectiveness of patching efforts
Communicate
Create reports with the right amount of granularity and context, depending on the stakeholder
Continuous monitoring and improvement
Maintain ongoing compliance and security by continuously monitoring the third-party software running on endpoints and refining management policies.
With Tanium, organizations can:
Validate
Leverage Tanium intelligence about third-party software performance and compliance
Benchmark
Monitor system performance against industry peers
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