BDNA Signs BrightPlanIT, Inc. as Value Added Reseller Partner
2010-08-11
Mountain View, Calif. – Aug. 11, 2010
News Facts
- BDNA Corporation has signed a reseller partner agreement with BrightPlanIT, Inc., a Buffalo, NY-based network consulting, systems integration, network security, training and development service provider focused on maximizing value from Microsoft Windows platform enterprise IT infrastructures.
- Initially, BrightPlanIT and BDNA indicate they will focus on Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 migration projects leveraging BDNA’s IT Genome Center products and technologies.
Optimizing the Migration Path
- The BDNA products enable BrightPlanIT to assess and plan migrations on both the hardware and software levels.
- With regard to hardware, BDNA Normalize can process both BDNA Discover and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) asset inventory data to first take an accurate census of devices on customers’ network followed by assessment of individual computers’ migration readiness.
- At the software level, BDNA Normalize can identify, categorize and provide vital information about software installed in the infrastructure, with special attention to deviations from configuration standards, potential licensing issues and existence of undocumented or rogue software in the customer infrastructure.
BDNA Partner Ecosystem
- BrightPlanIT joins a growing ecosystem of go-to-market and technology partners focused on applying BDNA’s IT Genome Center products to client problem solving.
- BDNA’s IT Genome Center solution set, which includes BDNA Technopedia, BDNA Discover and BDNA Normalize products, helps enterprise IT managers improve the speed and quality of IT management decision making, reduce IT cost of ownership, and enhance the value of new IT investment and initiatives.
- BDNA Normalize correlates customer infrastructure configuration data generated by Microsoft SCCM or other asset inventory products with information from BDNA Technopedia, the industry’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of technical and product life cycle information containing more than 9.5 million data points on more than 87,000 commercial IT product models and versions.
- BDNA IT Genome Center offerings can be resold as products, delivered in the context of managed services, or support IT asset management consulting programs.
Supporting Quotes
Walker White, BDNA CTO, said: “With overwhelmingly positive reviews of Windows 7, coupled with Microsoft’s plans to discontinue support for Windows XP, over the next 18 months we should see a mass migration of enterprise IT to the new technology. BrightPlanIT is one of the market’s most respected Microsoft-focused system consultant/integrator companies, and we can’t think of a better organization to apply BDNA technologies to maximizing the end customer value of enterprise scale Windows 7, Office 2010 and other technology change movements.”
Skip Gould, president and CEO of BrightPlanIT, said: “It’s a given that IT programs need to look before they leap into any fundamental migration, especially one on the scale of the movement to Windows 7. Bringing BDNA IT Genome Center technologies into the picture goes well beyond ordinary pre-migration due diligence. BDNA offers opportunities to create value at every step of the migration process—software license optimization, identifying consolidation opportunities, identifying and purging rogue assets—the list goes on. BDNA offers an outstanding technology base, and we look forward to working with them to exceed expectations of our end customers.”
Information Resources
- BDNA Products and Solutions page: http://www.bdna.com/page/index/solutions
- BDNA Technopedia page: http://www.bdna.com/page/index/bdna-technopedia
- BDNA Value-Added Partners page: http://www.bdna.com/page/index/value-added-partners
- BrightPlanIT, Inc.: http://www.brightplanit.com
Key Words
BDNA, IT Genome Center, Technopedia, BrightPlanIT, Inc., software asset management, Microsoft System Center, SCCM; Windows 7 migration, Office 2010 migration.
About BrightPlanIT
BrightPlanIT, Inc. is a New York Corporation focusing on "Best Practices in Information Technology". BrightPlanIT headquarters are in Buffalo, NY. Additional Offices are in Amherst, NY; New York, NY; Las Vegas, NV; Phoenix, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Toronto, Ont., CA; and Washington, DC. BrightPlanIT’s complimentary weekly newsletter can be received by registering at their website at http://www.brightplanit.com or http://www.BrightPlanIT.ca.
BDNA: The IT Genome Company™
BDNA’s unique IT genome technology enables customers in all sectors of the global economy to achieve deep visibility into what their computing hardware, software, network infrastructure, and technology usage patterns are made of. Informed by Technopedia™, a constantly expanding body of knowledge currently covering 9,500,000 lifecycle history data points on 87,000 IT products, BDNA’s Discover™ asset inventory and Normalize™ data enrichment solutions help save money and speed time-to-decision for software license optimization, technical controls compliance, information security, green computing, infrastructure consolidation/virtualization, capacity planning, business continuity, and ROI maximization initiatives. To learn what BDNA is made of, visit www.bdna.com or follow us on Twitter, BDNA_ITgenome.
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650-340-1985
