BDNA Extends Leadership in Intelligence for IT With BDNA 3.5; New Modules for Asset Reconciliation and Inventory Consolidation Bridge Corporate Financial Management and IT Asset Management.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- BDNA Corporation, an innovator in asset management solutions for IT and finance, today unveiled BDNA 3.5. This version introduces two new modules to this suite of applications, namely: BDNA Asset Reconciliation and BDNA Inventory Consolidation. Together these extend the company's leadership by offering solutions which create a tighter connection between a company's financial, operations, and IT organizations. BDNA 3.5 builds on the success of the BDNA suite, which is used by federal government and Fortune 500 organizations. This completely Web-based application See Web application. combines non-intrusive discovery, powerful analytics, and advanced IT asset management functionality to deliver immediate value without the risk and expense of traditional implementation requirements. "Financial and operational executives need to have confidence in the accuracy of their IT asset accounting, whether they are attesting to the accuracy of fixed assets fixed assets npl → activo sg fijo fixed assets npl → immobilisations fpl fixed assets fix npl → or re-negotiating software license agreements," said Ed Chopskie, vice president of marketing at BDNA. "With BDNA 3.5, organizations can establish and maintain an accurate technology asset baseline even with a federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. IT data model. For larger organizations, this can result in a positive impact on operating income Operating Income The profit realized from a business' own operations. Notes: This would not include income from things such as investments in other firms. Also referred to as operating profit or recurring profit. by, for example, eliminating the need to carry reserves for IT assets which may not in fact exist." "IT asset management is a huge challenge. Not only do IT assets change with greater frequency than most other fixed assets, but there is an enormous amount of very detailed information to contend with," said Toby Redshaw, vice president of IT strategy at Motorola (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT (OpenView Managed Object Toolkit) An OpenView toolkit from HP for developing network management applications based on CMIS. The toolkit contains library routines that handle the transmission and receipt of CMIS requests and responses. ). "BDNA has been indispensable in arming us with actual data about usage and installations. The analytics have been central in our effective vendor negotiations, resulting in savings that greatly exceeded executives' expectations." About BDNA 3.5 Available now, the BDNA software suite is the only solution providing IT, finance, and procurement executives the complete business intelligence needed to support corporate initiatives such as IT remediation and consolidation, asset reconciliation, standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting , end-of-life governance, and ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). projects such as IT configuration management databases (CMDB CMDB Configuration Management Data Base CMDB Composite Modified Double Base (Propellant) CMDB Control and Monitor Display Builder CMDB Call Management Database ) development. Using patent-pending technology, BDNA allows organizations to quickly and easily aggregate the most complete and granular granular /gran·u·lar/ (gran´u-lar) made up of or marked by presence of granules or grains. gran·u·lar adj. 1. Composed or appearing to be composed of granules or grains. 2. IT asset information -- including both hardware and software -- then consolidate and store IT information in a central reference base, and leverage advanced analytics to make more intelligent, informed business decisions. The new modules included in BDNA 3.5 are as follows: BDNA Asset Reconciliation BDNA worked closely with CFOs and CIOs to develop the first application automating the time- and money-intensive activity of reconciling IT assets against a corporate fixed asset system. BDNA Asset Reconciliation uses patent-pending technologies to automatically match and reconcile thousands of IT assets in a matter of hours, instead of weeks. It then calls out and ranks "near matches" to avoid duplicate records. It is also the only solution available enabling companies to associate individual physical assets with a multi-unit purchase or fixed asset record. BDNA's graphical presentation of reconciliation records and Web-based architecture facilitates reporting to senior finance and IT executives. Additionally, it includes reports which enable financial auditors to attest To solemnly declare verbally or in writing that a particular document or testimony about an event is a true and accurate representation of the facts; to bear witness to. To formally certify by a signature that the signer has been present at the execution of a particular writing so as to the accuracy of the fixed asset register. The solution easily integrates with fixed asset data from leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems including Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP, and is designed to use existing IT asset data from popular third-party sources. BDNA Inventory Consolidation This new application provides advanced analytics and discovery for an IT asset portfolio. It eliminates "islands of data" by integrating with popular data storage and CMDBs, including network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. , systems management, data warehouses, and other business systems. BDNA Inventory Consolidation then delivers a single, accurate view of all software and hardware -- including operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , databases, applications, custom software, severs, PCs, printers, routers, and storage devices -- enabling companies to drive IT initiatives such as server consolidations, ITIL implementations, software license management, and risk mitigation with greater efficiency and accuracy. Software license and usage can be tracked across the entire enterprise for most titles including Oracle, DB2, SAP, Rational, and PeopleSoft. Additional analytics can be easily produced for changes over time by any parameter including by asset owner, location, function, contract, manufacturer, product, platform, or even patch level. BDNA Inventory Consolidation provides custom reports and charts, and exports directly to MS Excel or MS PPT for easy communication of inventory and goals. ABOUT BDNA BDNA Corporation is an innovator in business asset management solutions. The BDNA Software Suite delivers comprehensive, accurate, actionable information, and analytics to drive strategic IT alignment, reduce risks, and contain costs. BDNA also provides consultative Strategic Service Engagements that provide organizations with actionable information to drive IT and financial projects without the traditional risks of implementing asset management software. Executives in IT, finance, and procurement leverage BDNA software and strategic services for initiatives such as vendor negotiations, asset reconciliation, and standards compliance. Delivering immediate, real-time, and accurate visibility of the entire IT infrastructure -- from desktop productivity software to ERP applications, from mobile devices to mainframes -- BDNA is enabling corporations to optimize software maintenance agreements, automate regulatory reporting, and manage end-of-life product transitions. BDNA headquarters are in Mountain View, Calif., USA. For more information, visit www.BDNAcorp.com. About Gartner IT & Software Asset Management Summit 2005 Gartner IT & Software Asset Management Summit 2005 is the most focused event of its kind designed to help enterprises develop a "built-to-last" IT asset management program by addressing operation efficiency issues, compliance risks and strategic alignment. Gartner IT & Software Asset Management Summit hits the critical spot between real-world best practices and tactical to practical Tactical to Practical was a History Channel program that ran from 2003 to 2004. Each episode documented ways in which technologies utilized by the civilian public were originally developed to serve military purposes. The show was hosted by Hunter Ellis. advice related to compliance, sourcing, ITAM ITAM Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de Mexico ITAM Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ITAM Immunoreceptor Tyrosine–based Activation Motif ITAM Information Technology Asset Management ITAM Integrated Training Area Management (Program) tools and vendor selection, hardware and software acquisition, contract negotiations, financing, life-cycle planning and cost management. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/us/itamsummit. All trademarks, trade names, and/or product names are used solely for the purpose of identification and are the property of their respective owners. |
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