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Three Immediate Initiatives to Cut IT Costs, and Keep Them Down
To handle budget reductions, IT can cut operational and capital expenditures in three specific areas:

• Software Licensing – lack of visibility into software use drives higher license costs, compliance costs, fines, penalties, and personal liability. Automatic software discovery can reduce help license costs by millions of dollars per year, and eliminate other costs and risks.
• Consolidation – virtualization consolidates servers by an average of 35%, reducing hardware, software, power, and facilities costs. Data center consolidation eliminates costs of up to $2,000/ft2. Detailed hardware and software discovery is critical to fast, error-free consolidation.
• Green IT – Consolidation, virtualization, power management, and energy-efficient hardware reduces energy costs by as much as 60%. These initiatives require accurate discovery of hardware and software utilization to avoid mission-critical outages.

BDNA Catalog: Maximize the Value of IT Investments
Using a Complete IT Products Catalog
“Content is king.” Those three words have ruled the world of publishing, Hollywood and the Internet for years. But they’re equally relevant to the world of Information Technology (IT).

Today’s IT environment is increasingly complex, with a wide array of new technologies filtering into the organization at many points – from centralized procurement to employee downloads and M&A activities. To make meaningful IT decisions, management needs relevant information about existing products as well as competitive alternatives and those that are planned for future deployment. The ideal solution is to have a comprehensive, unified IT products catalog, up-to-date with all relevant content and easily analyzed to support strategic decisions.

BDNA Maps: Seeing Relationships in the IT Infrastructure
BDNA Insight delivers the strategic asset information necessary for effective IT. It discovers assets in the global IT infrastructure, and delivers comprehensive, accurate and immediate insight to streamline processes, accelerate projects and monitor policies.

BDNA is now extending these core capabilities to add another layer of intelligence about the components in the IT infrastructures: the relationships between them. BDNA Maps, integrated with BDNA Insight 6.0, offers insight into the complex dependencies and relationships between the various components of the evolving IT infrastructure.

Taking Control of Software Licensing
Many businesses are turning to strategic sourcing initiatives to lower costs and improve profits. But applying strategic sourcing to information technology is a difficult task, hampered by the lack of transparency and visibility into the enterprise-wide IT environment.

Transparency: A Critical Success Factor for IT Outsourcing
CIOs, under constant pressure to do more with less, are considering IT outsourcing as a way to meet some of their challenges. IT outsourcing initiatives are often focused on specific objectives such application portfolio rationalization, legacy system modernization, and data center consolidation and virtualization.

The First Step in Building the FactBase: BDNA Discovery
Businesses today depend heavily on technology, and expect transparency and accountability from the IT organization. But CIOs attempting to measure and manage the business of IT struggle with a significant 'data deficit' when it comes to the technology distributed throughout the enterprise. Little is known about exactly what technology is deployed, where it resides and how it is used. Essential, strategic decisions are often based on incomplete information and best guesses, not performance measurement and analysis.

Mitigate Risk with Security Assessments Using BDNA Insight
In today's business environment, the security stakes are high. IT security is not just an IT problem - technical security risks can create business liabilities.

The market is filled with products that promise to reduce this risk and enhance IT security. These include:

• Network and perimeter security (including firewalls)
• Endpoint security and threat mitigation (including anti-virus and patch management)
• Data security
• Identity and access

Optimizing Virtualization Success with Facts and Transparency
Optimizing Virtualization Success with Facts and Transparency Many organizations are adopting virtualization as part of a strategic initiative to consolidate hardware infrastructure, increase IT agility, and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). But without fact-based transparency into the complex and heterogeneous IT environment, executives in the Office of the CIO struggle to measure the potential opportunity and ultimate success of virtualization initiatives, and to understand their impact on larger business objectives such as decreasing the cost and complexity of IT delivery.

Accelerating CMDB Success with BDNA
The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) has become the new IT talisman. A CMDB is more than an asset register or inventory database; it can also express the component dependencies and hierarchical relationships of an IT service. Therefore, a properly created and maintained CMDB provides many opportunities to improve operations, reduce cost and streamline processes and is a key foundation capability to support business service management initiatives. With so many organizations pursuing the same goal, the software industry is racing to bring products and services to customers developing CMDB implementation strategies.

The BDNA FactBase and the BDNA Catalog: Putting Technology Decisions in Context
Large enterprises depend heavily on technology to support business operations, yet many operate at a deficit when it comes to having the facts to manage the business of IT. Despite the scope of the IT investment, executives and IT staff have relatively little insight into precisely what technology is used where, where security or compliance risks might hide, and how best to leverage the technology already in place. Executives often base important decisions on hunches, best guesses and even wishful thinking.