BDNA Solutions For IT Asset Management
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BDNA Solutions For IT Asset Management
Use Case Overview BDNA Solutions For IT Asset Management Better Data for IT Asset Management IT Asset Management (ITAM) solutions give enterprises a holistic overview of what hardware and software assets they own, when the assets were purchased, how they are used, and by whom. ITAM is key to the success of initiatives like license consolidation and optimization, vendor contract negotiations, enterprise architecture planning, audits, and more. But ITAM’s ability to control costs and improve efficiency is only as good as the data that drives it. BDNA gathers detailed information about IT assets from a wide range of data sources. It then makes the data clean, complete, and consistent before delivering it to ITAM solutions for reporting and analysis. BDNA provides end-to-end alignment of data for IT Asset Management Key Benefits Streamline and resolve data quality issues in IT data to make it valuable for Asset Management Reduce costs by avoiding overand under-buys, maximizing upgrade entitlements, and optimizing licensing Decrease risks of vendor audits, noncompliance, poor governance, and security threats Improve vendor contract management and negotiations Protect technology and business initiatives BDNA aggregates and cleans data from Discovery as well as Procurement sources. Data is aligned using BDNA Technopedia, providing end-to-end alignment for better IT Asset Management. 1 Challenge Solutions Challenges in Asset Inventory/Deployment Data BDNA solves the data problem for IT Asset Management by providing clean, aggregate data from multiple sources including discovery solutions, client management solutions and procurement systems. Using TechnopediaTM, the world’s largest catalog of hardware and software assets, BDNA normalizes data from multiple sources and enriches it to provide consistent, accurate and valuable data for more efficient IT Asset Management. Merging IT asset inventory data from multiple sources, such as discovery solutions, and client management solutions, often creates inconsistencies that prevent the ITAM solution from building an accurate, complete inventory of deployed software: • Inconsistent data - Multiple names for a single vendor, product, or product version leads to conflicts and duplicates. • Outdated data - Reconciliation manually or using other catalogs is not effective since data gets outdated and catalogs are not updated often enough to keep up with vendor mergers, acquisitions, and new releases. • Incomplete data - Discovery solutions do not provide endof-life dates, open source data, hardware specifications, and other market intelligence to contextualize IT system data. Challenges in Asset Entitlement/ Procurement Data Maintaining an accurate entitlement profile for Software Asset Management (SAM) and vendor audits is difficult when heterogeneous purchase orders are the only business records with the necessary information about procurements: BDNA Technopedia™ BDNA Technopedia is the world’s largest and most comprehensive catalog of IT product information, with constantly updated information on more than 1.2 million hardware and software assets. It provides a common language for IT, enabling data from multiple sources to be mapped to a single identity. BDNA Normalize™ BDNA Normalize provides organizations with clean, curated and complete data to create an accurate picture of their environment: • It extracts inventory data from more than 40 different data sources, including discovery and procurement systems • It leverages Technopedia to normalize data to a common identity to resolve conflicts and remove duplicates • Inconsistent and missing part numbers - Vendors and resellers often use differing or made-up part numbers, if they use SKUs at all. • It enriches the data with non-discoverable market intelligence information, including end-of-life dates, license options, temperature ratings, and more • Unstructured part descriptions - Purchase orders have no standardized conventions for part descriptions and often bundle quantities, license packs, and/or maintenance and support into a single line item. • It keeps data current via daily updates. Lack of end-to-end data alignment • Inability to reconcile purchases against deployments - Poor data quality makes it impossible for IT managers to respond to vendor audits with an accurate record of entitlements. BDNA Technopedia Content Packs BDNA also provides content packs containing additional market intelligence tailored to specific IT initiatives. The Pricing content pack includes pricing data for hardware and software. The Procurement content pack automatically translates information from procurement systems to structured fields including SKU, vendor, manufacturer, term/perpetual, quantity, bundle, and others. Consequences of Poor Data Quality Inaccurate counting and reporting lead to significant trueups from vendor audits, inability to realize cost benefits from consolidation and optimization initiatives, waste on unused assets, poor leverage in vendor contract negotiations, and costly, time-consuming manual reconciliation. Outdated and incomplete data increases the risk of regulatory noncompliance, exposes the organization to known security vulnerabilities, interferes with data governance, and hinders the planning and implementation of IT initiatives like cloud migration and data center transformation. 2 Your BDNA Results with BDNA Solutions For IT Asset Management Using better data from BDNA, IT organizations can run more impactful IT Asset Management: • Asset Inventory: Get complete visibility into the hardware and software assets that you use, including license counts and usage information, by normalizing deployment data from multiple sources. • Asset Utilization: Optimize asset utilization by reclaiming and redeploying underutilized and unused assets. • Renewal/Upgrade Decisions: Make informed decisions regarding asset renewal, upgrade, and distribution with accurate utilization data. • Software Audits: Prepare better for vendor audits and implement software license compliance with accurate usage, deployment, and entitlement data. • Vendor Management: Negotiate the most effective licensing terms with accurate usage information. • Risk & Compliance: Support security, governance, and compliance initiatives with comprehensive product data including product lifecycle, EOL, CPE, and more. How to Purchase Support and Professional Services BDNA creates better data about their IT estate that organizations use to make better decisions, lower costs and accelerate the pace of their businesses. To start using BDNA please visit bdna.com, fill out our contact form and request a demo of our products so you can begin to promote business agility and efficiency in your enterprise immediately. BDNA understands how important it is to respond quickly, drive better results and ask the right questions to its customers. Our customer support and professional services is committed to keeping customers happy and up-to-date so their needs are met each and every day. Communication is a key element when partnering with our customers and helps in building stronger and longlasting relationships. We want our customers to know we are here to help them in the short and long-term, as well as understand the value our products bring to their data when making business decisions. Find out more For more information call 650-625-9530 or visit www.bdna.com to learn more about how BDNA can transform your enterprise IT data. Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved. BDNA, trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks are property of their respective owners. 04/01/2015 3