Since 1887, Marathon Oil Corporation has been a part of providing energy all over America. The company is a public petroleum and natural gas exploration and production enterprise headquartered in Houston, Texas. Pat Nichols, Senior IT Systems Analyst, has been along for the ride for more than 40 of Marathon Oil’s 133 years of operation. She has witnessed many of the ebbs and flows the company has gone through and led teams through them all.

I t’s been a whirlwind of excitement since our Ivanti Neurons announcement last month. We’ve been delighted by the responses received from customers, partners, and industry press. Among the many thoughts shared back, the ideas organizations have for solving operational challenges are getting creative. And why not? Imagine the possibilities with a platform that offers so much power to discover, manage, secure and service endpoints from the cloud to the edge.

When was the last time an IT conversation reminded you of the movie “Casablanca”? That happened to me recently when I was talking with another IT professional about Ivanti Neurons. We discussed how Ivanti Neurons will make life easier for IT by delivering more self-servicing, self-healing and self-securing experiences.

Tuesday morning you roll out of bed, turn off your alarm, tiptoe down the stairs, retrieve your paper, flip the hallway lights on, feed the dog, and start making coffee—in five minutes. Performing this series of early-morning tasks is called chunking. Certain neurons in the brain “bookend” the habit for you, signaling the routine has started (the alarm) and ended (coffee).

The theme for Ivanti this summer has been one of transformation, and in keeping with that theme, today we announced enhanced capabilities for the Ivanti Enterprise Service Management portfolio. Leveraging Ivanti Neurons, these enhancements include: The new releases give service desks greater visibility—in real time—to actionable information across their device estate to improve the accuracy, speed and efficiency of services delivered.

Following the formation of the Independent Business Unit earlier this year, we’ve been refocusing our attention on Ivanti Workspace Control. With the previous release being mainly focussed on maintenance, security, and performance improvements, this Workspace Control 2020 release will be our first major release since then. Workspace Control 2020 introduces several significant new features while also incorporating many of your User Voice requests (please continue to share with us).

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a dramatic shift in the way all industries work, including warehouses within the supply chain. With each minute wasted—equating to a loss of revenue that many companies simply can’t afford in the current climate—productivity must be optimized. On top of this, businesses are mitigating the possibilities of staff becoming unwell and having to find last minute replacements, all while facing increased demand as online shopping continues to peak.

The demands on enterprise IT are set to grow exponentially. Edges. Many times, they represent an unknown—like the edge of space or a horizon for sea captains and pilots. And they give us mixed feelings—fear, anxiousness, direction, a sense of adventure. Most often, they represent a future state or location we are moving towards. For IT there is a new edge. The Edge of computing. The place where things and people are connecting with our networked digital world.

Thanks to your feedback in the User Voice portal, and our roadmap for the future of Ivanti Device and Application Control as discussed in the webinar earlier this year, we are pleased to announce the latest 5.2 release of Ivanti Device and Application Control. Hopefully by now you realize Ivanti is serious about making significant updates to the dedicated set of Ivanti products that form the Independent Business Unit. This content rich update is available for download now!

We have unveiled several exciting announcements recently, from the launch of Ivanti Neurons to all of our strategic partnerships and integrations (see the details on Intel and Qualys). In fact, we have had so much content to announce that we've needed to create a whole new blog category! But this train is not slowing down any time soon.

Who doesn’t like a good ole’ game of “Guess how many M&Ms or marbles are in that jar”? Are you off by 20, 50, or by a couple hundred? Or maybe you’re fairly close estimating the number of spheres in a confined space. Now think about your IT assets in your organization. Are all of them accounted for? Where are they located? Take a guess. Guess again. A miss is as good as a mile.