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bigfix point-of-sale device Management

extending the power of the bigfix platform to windows poS devices

BigFix POS Device Support The Need for Point-of-Sale Device Management
includes
Windows Point-of-Sale (POS) devices are business-critical for many
• Patch Management. BigFix Patch enterprises, particularly Retail, and managing the vast quantity and
Management provides the ability diversity of these devices can be an enormous challenge. POS devices
to centrally manage patches present unique management challenges not addressed by most
across all of your Windows POS management products, including random reboots by untrained staff,
devices, using the same console extremely low bandwidth, unreliable connections including modem and
and infrastructure that you use satellite links, and separate download and control channels.
for Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac
In addition to device-specific challenges, changing, auditing, and
endpoints. With BigFix, you can
enforcing configuration changes across the entire Windows POS fleet
precisely target, install and validate
is critical from an IT and business perspective. For example, some
critical updates to your entire
states have “tax holidays” during which no sales tax is collected from
device fleet within hours.
customers. To support this, POS tax rate tables must be set to zero
• Inventory and Asset Management.
the evening before the holiday and then reset back to normal the
BigFix provides real-time inventory
evening after. Organizations need to audit and enforce these changes
data for all managed Windows
on a large scale. Failure to do so can result in lost revenue and/or
POS devices, including hardware
penalties.
properties, software installations
and device configurations. Organizations need to manage all of their Windows POS devices
• Ensuring Continuous Compliance. from the same high performance security and systems management
BigFix allows organizations platform that they use for the rest of their infrastructure: BigFix.
to document patch levels,
configuration changes and asset
status, more readily meeting data
disclosure requirements and
passing compliance audits such
as PCI DSS.

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 BIGFIX
“Restaurant managers need
to manage restaurants,
not PCs.”
Michael Schaefer
Senior Wide Area Network Analyst,
O’Charley’s Restaurants
“With BigFix, we could offer
Purolator the ability to
consolidate security and
system management
services delivery through a
lightweight, single agent,
single console, single
communications
infrastructure solution.”
John Menezes
President, Cyberklix
(Purolator Courier Ltd
Managed Service Provider)
supported platforms
• Windows XP Embedded
• Windows XP Embedded
Standard 2009
• Windows Embedded Point of
Service 1.1 SP3
• Windows POSReady
About BigFix
BigFix®, Inc. is a leading provider
of high-performance enterprise
systems and security management
solutions that revolutionizes the way
IT organizations manage and secure
their computing infrastructures.
bigfix point-of-sale device management
DATA S H EET
Product Benefits
• Gain real-time visibility into Windows POS devices that process business-
critical transactions, including patch levels, inventory, configuration, and
overall status
• Deploy and verify software patches and configuration changes to Windows
POS devices within minutes or hours—not days or weeks
• Meet stringent security requirements for data protection on all Windows-
based retail systems and continuously validate compliance with PCI DSS
• The same highly scalable BigFix platform that manages Windows, Mac,
UNIX, and Linux endpoints now also supports Windows POS devices
• Fully deploy BigFix Agents to your entire Windows POS fleet in hours
• Centralize security auditing, policy control, and remediation to significantly
reduce risk and device management overhead
Product Features
• Dynamic, policy-based bandwidth throttling capability optimizes network
performance over high-latency, low-bandwidth networks
• Provides real-time inventory visibility, patch management and security
configuration management for Windows POS devices
• Support for POS devices running Windows XP Embedded, Windows
Embedded Point of Service (WePOS), Windows POSReady Standard 2009,
and Windows POSReady
• Leverage BigFix systems lifecycle management control for tasks such as
policy-driven software distribution and maintenance window control
• Audit, control and report on all configuration settings, including security
and business metrics (like sales tax rates)
• Agent footprint, CPU utilization and connectivity requirements optimized for
POS devices
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