Unexpected app "Admin Alert" running on my machine

All of a sudden I noticed an application called "Admin Alert" in my dock.

This is a work computer, I'm wondering if this is some sort of "spyware" that our lovely IT department has installed on my machine. I can't find any information about it online.

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(OSX 10.8)


Admin Alert is related to Dell KACE, an "appliance-based approach to systems management", and the admin alert icon appearing in the dock is apparently a bug.