There Must Be a Better Way
For IT decision makers tasked with supporting business function, lack of useful data has become the enemy. Against a backdrop of decreasing budgets and scarce resources, IT executives are looking for a better way to run their planning, procurement, operations and risk and compliance functions. Intuitively, they turn to internal systems, hoping the data in these systems will yield insights. What they find, however, is exactly the opposite.
While awash in data, IT executives struggle to compile a cohesive picture of their IT environment. The datasets are often massive, with wide variety and complexity. Each system represents key software and hardware with different naming conventions. Some systems rely upon external data, much of it perishable and not current. As a result, addressing pressing questions - such as how much software do I have deployed from a particular vendor or what software am I running which is obsolete - becomes an expensive, manual and non-repeatable process. Sometimes the time and effort spent offsets most of the potential gain. There must be a better way.
BDNA: The Common Language of IT
BDNA delivers a complete, accurate, and consistent view of their entire IT environment. We aren't simply dumping more data into the environment, but are instead making all of the existing data more useful by translating it into the Common Language of IT, which is structured, universally accessible, and easily learned. The Common Language of IT defines uniform attribute data for hardware and software across the enterprise while providing categorization and relevant external data. We're using that language to dissolve barriers throughout the enterprise. We're connecting systems and people not by simply transferring data, but by freeing the data through the Common Language of IT.
Use Case: Closed Loop IT Processes
Resolving pressing business questions - from planning to compliance - typically requires input from many functional areas. Unfortunately, the data across processes is rarely shared. As an example, enterprise architects will define products by one name, often manually maintaining a product catalog and lifecycle information. IT procurement purchases the same products using different names, often linking to external catalogs. IT operations must inventory these products once deployed, using the name generated by the tool while augmenting the data for tactical initiatives. IT risk and compliance must reconcile the inventory to the purchases while adding more external data around compliance. It is a vicious cycle.
BDNA provides the Common Language of IT, to bring a closed loop process to IT. With Technopedia, enterprise architects and IT planners can integrate with and select products with lifecycle information from the world's largest IT catalog, eliminating the cost of managing and maintaining this data themselves. IT procurement can also utilize Technopedia, to ensure they purchase products defined by IT planning. Additionally, with BDNA Normalize™, purchase order information can be aligned to Technopedia as well, eliminating manual reconciliation efforts.
IT operations can embed Technopedia into CMDB and IT service management solutions, ensuring a consistent picture of deployed versus purchased assets. IT operations can also generate hardware and software inventories aligned to Technopedia™ by utilizing BDNA Normalize or BDNA Discover™, reducing conflicting representations among tools. Finally, IT risk and compliance can ensure proper entitlements against IT procurement records or assert positive control over assets, since they share a common language.
Get started immediately with the Common Language of IT. Capitalize on BDNA solutions for IT planning, procurement, operations and risk and compliance today. Let the Common Language of IT dissolve the barriers between all your processes, projects and tools so they work together seamlessly.
