ManageEngine's IT management suite will be integrated into parent co. Zoho's business apps

CHENNAI, INDIA: Announcing its strategy to align IT with business objectives, IT management company, ManageEngine said it will integrate its suite of IT management software into the cloud-based business apps of parent company Zoho.

The expanded ManageEngine-Zoho relationship promises to push IT-business alignment to new levels. To signal closer affinity with Zoho, ManageEngine has also refreshed its logo with a new crest that includes the red, green, blue and yellow colors of Zoho.

ManageEngine has built more than 90 IT management applications and free tools. Taken together, the suite provides everything an IT department needs to affordably manage all of its IT operations, from networks and servers to applications, service desk, Active Directory, security, desktops, and mobile devices.

Working towards this new strategy, the company will will roll out a solution that unites one of its IT management applications with customer account management and billing apps from Zoho later this month. Going forward, the two companies will deliver other integrations to help organizations tightly align their IT operations and business strategies.

IT teams are often hamstrung by multi-vendor IT management solutions that are functionally disconnected from each other and isolated from the rest of the organization. As a result, IT teams take longer to act on new opportunities while business productivity and continuity suffer, leaving business units to watch opportunities slip away.

“The future of IT is the intersection of technology and business,” said Raj Sabhlok, President of ManageEngine. “Most IT decisions are being made at the line of business or are being influenced at the line of business. IT teams need a suite of integrated tools that can help them work at that level, and we are uniquely qualified to deliver that suite. Zoho is the operating system for business and lives at the line of business. Working even more closely with Zoho puts ManageEngine where we need to be — helping to develop, deploy, manage and secure these critical business applications.”

In its efforts to improve IT manageability, ManageEngine has already begun contextually integrating many of its applications, sharing data across applications and enabling IT pros to perform relevant functions of one application from the UI of another. To date, such contextual integrations have been created for its desk, desktop, mobile device, and operations management solutions.

ManageEngine will continue to evolve its applications further based on lessons gained from managing the Zoho Cloud, and will continue to work on the contextual integration of the ManageEngine suite.