Custom Actions - BES Console operators can now take arbitrary action from the BES Console, with arbitrary relevance. This powerful capability also enables backing-out patches that support undo.
Management Rights - More granular management rights provide enhanced flexibility to assign capabilities to specific BES Console operators.
Hierarchical BES Relays - N-tier hierarchical BES Relays are now supported, significantly expanding configuration flexibility.
Bi-directional Communication - BES Relays now provide bi-directional communication between agents and the BES Server. This significantly reduces network bandwidth and BES Server requirements.
BES Relay Auto-configuration - BES agents now automatically find their closest relay in the network, eliminating this previously manual configuration step. BES Relays also now can automatically create their own communication hierarchy to the BES Server, greatly simplifying deployment.
Increased Scalability
BES Console and BES Server Optimizations - The BES Console, BES Server, and overall BES architecture have been optimized to support over 75,000 agents per server. This represents a 5-fold increase over BES 3.1, and offers unprecedented scalability to serve the large enterprise.
Streamlined User Interface
Easier to Use - The BES Console user interface has been streamlined to simplify frequent operations and to clearly display and manage information. The UI cleanly and intuitively enables BES Console operators to support very large deployments.
Improved Performance
BES Console Speed - The BES Console now caches data to local disk significantly reducing the time required to open a new BES Console session.
Reduced Memory - The memory footprint BES Console is now much smaller than BES 3.1, improving BES Console speed.
Reporting Speed - Report generation speed has been improved in BES 4.0. Web reports now have the option to be generated directly from the local database eliminating the aggregation delay imposed by BES 3.1.
Expanded Reporting
New Overview Page - BES 4.0 incorporates a new "dashboard" report enabling management and administrators to see "at a glance" the vulnerability status of their desktops, laptops, and servers.
New Reports - BES 4.0 has expanded reporting capabilities including easy-to-use vulnerability compliance and remediation progress.
