System Center Essentials is a unified management solution designed for IT professionals in midsize organizations to more efficiently secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot their IT environments. Essentials helps you proactively monitor your IT environment, simplifies complex management tasks, and automates system updates and data collection for your IT environment. Essentials uses the SharePoint Management Pack to provide you with out-of-the-box knowledge to proactively identify and resolve problems before they occur.