System Center Essentials

SCE is RTM!!! Here is some of the feature list:

• Incident Management – ITIL-based incident forms will enable technicians to record, triage, and diagnose issues for resolution.
• Self service portal – An intuitive, self service portal enables end users to submit tickets, check status, search a knowledge base, and request software through provisioning workflows.
• Change Management – Service Manager includes a collection of change templates and provides an approval workflow to take changes from submission through flexible review stages.
• Asset Management – Users can synchronize inventory from SMS and also create and dispose of assets.
• Knowledge-driven support – IT technicians can author and publish knowledge articles.
• SML-based CMDB – Bringing together information from SMS 2003 SP3 and Active Directory (limited to users), Service Manager includes a CMDB with relationships between hardware, software, and users.
• Data warehouse – SQL-based reporting infrastructure with six canned reports.
• Scalability – In Beta 1, Service Manager will offer limited scale targets supporting 100 Active Directory users and inventory of 250 computers from SMS.
• Asset Lifecycle Management – Service Manager will track licenses and contracts such as warranties and leases.
• Configuration Manager 2007 integration ­– Population of CMDB and integration to Desired Configuration Management.
• Operations Manager 2007 integration – Automated incident creation, task automation, and integration of monitored services.
• Reporting and data warehouse – Complete set of reports measuring IT performance through key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Role-based security
• Scale and performance enhancements
• Active Directory integration – Integration extended to groups