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Offered as a stand-alone product or as part of the BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management suite, BigFix Power Management allows IT organizations to enforce conservation policies across the enterprise, while providing granularity that enables application of these policies to a single computer. For end users, BigFix Power Management maximizes power policy deployment while minimizing usage impact through an optional “opt-in” approach. Granular controls also allow end users to save their work before shutting the system down – ensuring no loss to productivity. (Link: BigFix)

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You can automate systems and security management tasks and see, manage, update and protect all your desktops, servers and mobile devices from a single console. It doesn’t matter if your systems are inside or outside the corporate firewall. The power management solutions is here. (Link: LANDesk)

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1E’s Nightwatchman works with the 1E Agility Framework reporting server to directly measure and report on power consumption, energy costs and C02 emissions. It can also calculate the actual savings you are achieving by using NightWatchman’s power saving measures. (Link: 1E)

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Verdiem is one company built solely around PC power management. I’m sure they have happy customers, but I would pass them over for a systems management solution that has integrated power management. (Link: Verdiem Surveyor)

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Faronics is one company doing a good job at booking power management business. Two claims made on their web page: Power Save is the only computer energy management solution that analyzes CPU, disk, keyboard, mouse, and application activity before taking power management actions. It is also the only solution that is available for both Windows [...]

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Desktop Authority centralizes control over the desktop, combining into one comprehensive solution the functionality usually achieved with a combination of logon scripting, group policies, user profiles, and a variety of security solutions. By integrating configuration, inventory, reporting, patch management, anti-spyware, device lockdown, power management and remote management into a single solution, administrators can efficiently and effectively manage the desktop environment from one console, lowering the total cost of desktop ownership. (Link: ScriptLogic Desktop Authority

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