ThinkVantage Technologies is a set of system support utilities that IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 provided with its desktop computer

Desktop computer

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 and laptop

Laptop

A laptop, also called a notebook, is a personal computer for mobile use. A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device and speakers into a single unit...

 range, and then included with the Lenovo Group

Lenovo Group

Lenovo Group Limited is a Chinese multinational personal technology company that develops, manufactures and markets desktop and notebook computers, workstations, servers, storage drives, IT management software, and other related products and services. Lenovo was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1988...

 products since IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo in 2005.

History

In 2002 IBM heavily promoted these tools as part of its "Think"

IBM Think

"THINK" is a motto coined by Thomas J. Watson while managing the sales and advertising departments at the National Cash Register Company, saying "Thought has been the father of every advance since time began...

campaign, intended to instill confidence that IBM computers were easier to use and quicker to recover from disaster.

In 2004 IBM provided two of the utilities, Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore and IBM System Migration Assistant as separately available software for use on non-IBM systems.

Additional packages were added to the suite:

• ThinkVantage Access Connections Manager
• Client Security Solution
• System Migration Assistant
• ThinkVantage System Update
• ImageUltra Builder