Oracle Verifies BDNA's License Compliance Solution
2011-10-03
Oracle Partners with Enterprise IT Visibility Leader to Provide Customers and Partners with a Proven, Independent Solution to Gain Complete Oracle Visibility
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 3, 2011 – BDNA, the leading provider of IT Visibility solutions, today announced that Oracle has verified BDNA Discover for Oracle Licensing™ as a trusted and proven solution for Oracle software licensing. Oracle customers and partners now have a solution approved by Oracle to enable effective Oracle-related software management initiatives and processes.
BDNA's verification by Oracle included a thorough review and comprehensive testing by Oracle License Management Services (LMS) to ensure BDNA Discover for Oracle Licensing provides both a superior customer experience and accurate and trusted results on Oracle Database and Options. These results are accepted by Oracle LMS.
BDNA Discover for Oracle Licensing leverages patented technology in BDNA Discover, the industry's most accurate and comprehensive IT discovery solution, to quickly identify all Oracle hardware and software thus providing a complete picture of assets, licenses and usage. With this visibility, Oracle customers can to optimize their holistic Oracle investment and improve ongoing license management thereby reducing the financial and legal risk of non-compliance.
"BDNA values Oracle as a partner and as a customer. BDNA Discover for Oracle Licensing was developed jointly with Oracle and to their specifications. BDNA can deliver Oracle customers an improved experience ensuring the right data and complete accuracy, all in less time," said Walker White, CTO at BDNA. "Managing today's increasingly complex enterprise can be a challenge, and our scalable visibility solutions can be leveraged for everything from hardware consolidation to application rationalization to virtualization, as well as managing software license compliance across the enterprise."
Key features include:
- 100% agentless – BDNA identifies all systems and software installations running Oracle and determines full usage without intrusive, agent-based technologies or scripts
- Flexible – BDNA has options for single use, managed services or on-premise installation for ongoing license management
- Unparalleled visibility – BDNA provides total IT visibility, including Oracle and other software and hardware assets
- Breadth – BDNA Discover for Oracle Licensing is powered by Technopedia, the world's largest source of IT product information with more than 300,000 enterprise IT products and more than 14 million market data points
About Oracle Corporation
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About BDNA Corporation
BDNA provides the most comprehensive, accurate view into an organization's IT infrastructure in order to drive critical IT processes and projects around data centers, desktops and enterprise architecture. From IT administrators to managers to executives, BDNA delivers the business-relevant information required to accelerate corporate initiatives. Core to its value proposition is BDNA Technopedia™, the world's largest source of IT product information on more than 90,000 enterprise IT products, otherwise unavailable through traditional IT discovery solutions. More than 350 companies rely on BDNA's patented technologies for IT asset discovery, normalization and data enrichment, dramatically increasing visibility and reducing the time and overhead involved in developing and executing on strategic IT initiatives. To learn more about BDNA and its products – BDNA Discover, BDNA Normalize™, and BDNA Technopedia – visit www.bdna.com.
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Contacts:
Lisa Melsted
Bateman Group for BDNA
(415) 503-1818
bdna@bateman-group.com
Laura Pauli
BDNA
(650) 641-6042
lpauli@bdna.com
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