New BDNA White Paper Provides Immediate Initiatives To Cut IT Costs
2009-05-26
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 26, 2009 – BDNA, the leading provider of agentless IT inventory solutions, today announced the availability of a new white paper that covers three immediate and actionable areas where enterprises can benefit greatly through better environmental understanding – software licensing, consolidation and green IT. Prepared by leading IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the paper, titled “Three Immediate Initiatives to Cut IT Costs and Keep Them Down,” draws from direct customer interviews and reinforces that by providing a deep level of visibility and understanding, BDNA’s solutions offer immediate, achievable and strategic capabilities for widespread cost reduction.
The challenges of a tight global economy are creating significant pressure on IT budgets. EMA research indicates that almost twice as many organization are facing IT budget cuts in 2009 as in 2008. Even where budgets are increasing, most are only going up by less than 10 percent. Yet, despite tightening IT budgets, businesses are not expecting reduced IT service. An immediate starting point for identifying new areas for cost savings is through eliminating the cost and waste hidden in a poorly documented IT environment.
Details of the white paper are as follows:
WHAT:
Availability of a new white paper titled “Three Immediate Initiatives to Cut IT Costs, and Keep Them Down,” prepared by leading IT analyst firm EMA. In addition to providing ideas on how enterprises can easily conquer software licensing, consolidation and green IT initiatives through the initial step of building a thorough inventory base, the paper also includes a mini case study on a major financial services firm and its experience conducting a full software inventory for three lines of businesses, spanning 10,000 servers, in under two months, using BDNA’s agentless IT inventory solutions.
WHERE:
The complimentary white paper is available for download at:
http://info.bdna.com/Three-Immediate-Initiatives-to-Cut-IT-Costs-and-Keep-Them-Down.html.
BDNA is a foundational solution for all critical projects, processes and policies. BDNA's patented technology, BDNA Insight, uniquely combines agentless, high-speed and detailed inventory of all software and hardware product assets with the industry’s leading technology catalog. Within days, customers gain the most comprehensive and accurate view of their IT infrastructure, including, for example, unique information such as power and heat metrics required to address green IT initiatives and software support information to accelerate compliance projects.
About BDNA Corporation
BDNA’s software provides IT organizations the tools to significantly reduce IT spending through a best-in-class agentless discovery, the industry’s best IT products catalog and award-winning IT asset management solutions. Our 350 customers are trend setters in ROI-driven initiatives; they include HSBC, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Pfizer, State of California, Telecom Italia, US Army and the World Bank.
BDNA is based in Mountain View, California, with sales offices and partners throughout North America and Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.bdna.com.
Contact:
Cathy Wright
Kulesa Faul for BDNA
(650) 340-1985
cathy@kulesafaul.com
