BDNA Catalog

The most complete IT products catalog in the world 10,000 vendors; 70,000 unique products; millions of information records.

The IT market is in constant change: mergers and acquisitions, new product releases, end of life for existing products, even bankruptcies. All of these events impact your IT decisions – and you need to know about them. The BDNA Catalog keeps track of all this for you. Automatically and continuously.

The BDNA Catalog is the most unique offering of its kind – through a revolutionary combination of technology and processes, BDNA has created the ultimate IT products catalog.

Delivering the context for strategic IT decisions

The BDNA Catalog is a complete repository of critical information for the technology industry – products, vendors, versions, support information, power consumption, and much more. The BDNA Catalog accelerates the success of critical IT projects through increased certainty, relevance and currency of information.

The BDNA Catalog is:

Comprehensive: Up-to-date product ‘fingerprints' capture information from a wide range of hardware and software assets.
Enriched: A complete taxonomy puts collected asset data in the right categories, while detailed market research provides relevant information such as software support dates and hardware power consumption.
Relevant: You get the right data for your initiative. Software information for a licensing project; power consumption information for a Green IT endeavor.
Current: It's always updated through a continuous and rigorous manufacturing process.

BDNA Insight automatically applies the data within the BDNA Catalog to the collected IT inventory, delivering new value for IT:

Streamline processes: Normalize information fed to ITAM, CMDB and other process tools, for accuracy and consistency.
Accelerate projects: Such as software audits and Green IT, by eliminating manual software reconciliation and collection of power consumption data.
Monitor policies: with confidence, supported by relevant information such as hardware support levels and software end-of-life dates.

BDNA Catalog Key Features

The BDNA Catalog is a complete repository of market data that puts the IT inventory in context. BDNA maintains rigorous processes to deliver content that is comprehensive, enriched and current.

Comprehensive product information

The BDNA Catalog contains a comprehensive library of technology fingerprints that identify hardware and software assets and their logical dependencies. Hardware coverage ranges from mainframes and desktops to routers and IP phones. Software fingerprints cover the most valuable and widely deployed packages, which represent the largest savings opportunities

Enriched market data

The BDNA Catalog enriches the IT inventory collected by BDNA Insight, providing a normalized and strategic view of the assets.

It categorizes the data collected using an exhaustive taxonomy of IT assets, both hardware and software.
It supplements the collected information with market data including software support dates, standard pricing and hardware power consumption.

This rich contextual information turns the tactical inventory into a strategic fact base for IT processes, projects and policies.

Current with the changing market

BDNA has implemented rigorous processes to handle the constant change in the IT market. With these integrated processes, the BDNA Catalog sustains its value over time.

BDNA has modeled proven continuous manufacturing processes to ensure that the technology catalog remains a reliable and exhaustive source of IT information. Processes incorporate:

Market and technical researchers.
Fingerprint engineers.
Quality control engineers.

BDNA customers benefit from this systemic update process:

As products are released or requested, BDNA updates the catalog quickly and reliably – at no extra cost to the requesting customer.
The resulting update is available to all BDNA customers, automatically.

The BDNA Catalog is always fresh because the process continually revisits existing content.