Caption -- Some kiosk networks require rich media update, file updates and general maintenance. Control panel handles all these tasks.

Control Panel
Today's distributed environments need a deployment solution that addresses every phase in an application's life-cycle-from initial deployment planning through the final configuration and fine-tuning of the application on each system. You need an automated, intelligent way to inventory key aspects of your installation and determine:

• What programs are already installed on your systems
• Which systems get which programs
• Which systems are available and prepared for installation
• How to deploy to geographically dispersed systems
• If all the prerequisites for a software package already exist on the system
• What to do if there's a problem with the new software installation

Tivoli offers a robust application management capability, based on Tivoli's Application Management Specification (AMS), an industry-endorsed standard. Using AMS, you can easily incorporate key management information into an application before you deploy it-making maintenance of that application much easier once it's out in the network. This includes industry-leading applications such as SAP R/3 or Lotus Notes, and custom software you build with products from Powersoft, and others. See the paper on Tivoli's Deployment Solution