Insight for effective IT Decisions

BDNA Insight delivers the strategic asset information necessary for effective IT. BDNA Insight discovers the global IT infrastructure at exceptionally low cost and risk. Its patented technology delivers comprehensive, accurate and immediate insight.

Comprehensive: Discover hardware, software and virtual systems.
Accurate: Leverage the BDNA Catalog to categorize and enrich the information with market data
Immediate: Discover IT inventory quickly, without software agents

A web-based analysis interface lets you easily identify savings opportunities. Time-based analysis charts progress over time.

Armed with this unprecedented fact base, BDNA clients:

Streamline processes: Enable change control (CMDB), IT asset management, IT service desk and more by populating and reconciling IT inventory to reduce cost and increase accuracy
Accelerate projects ranging from “Green IT” to consolidation to vendor audits with a complete and timely baseline of hardware, software and virtual systems
Monitor policies, using time-based analysis and exception reporting to drive compliance and measure internal alignment

BDNA Insight: Key Features

BDNA Insight addresses the need of today's dynamic IT environments with comprehensive, accurate and immediate inventory.

Comprehensive technology inventory

BDNA Insight creates a comprehensive IT inventory, gathering data about:

Network-attached devices – including mainframes, desktops, network infrastructure and IP phones
Virtual systems and their relationship to underlying hardware and virtualization software
Installed software – including ERP software, databases, desktop suites and application servers

BDNA Insight collects software attributes without using software agents. Armed with a complete picture of the software environment, you can optimize license agreements, handle software audits and track internal rollouts.

Accurate and in context

BDNA Insight combines the information discovered from the IT infrastructure with market data in the BDNA Catalog:

Normalizing the data: standardizing variations in product names and versions according to industry data.
Enriching the data with external market data, including software support dates, hardware energy consumption and pricing information.

Together, these processes deliver contextual data to support strategic IT processes, projects and policies.

Immediate and low risk

BDNA Insight offers a fast and low-risk way to gather a comprehensive IT baseline:

No software agents to install on target systems
No administrative access needed for business systems~
A web services architecture enabling easy integration

BDNA Insight delivers actionable information in days or weeks, not months. And the time-based analysis lets you track and tune your results over time.