Understanding what you have in your data center and how these assets interrelate is essential for making cloud decisions, understanding security vulnerabilities, and avoiding downtime.

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The Backbone of
Digital Enterprise
Management
Market Drivers for Asset Discovery
and Dependency Mapping
Business Needs Demand an
Integrated Approach
Business Benefits: Reducing
Costs and Improving Productivity
IT organizations need to efficiently broker, integrate, and orchestrate
the delivery of 3rd platform IT systems and services comprised of
cloud, mobile, big data, and social technologies.
BMC Discovery automates asset discovery and dependency mapping.
In minutes, IT can link infrastructure and software to how it impacts
the business to optimize capacity, ensure stronger security and
improve service, change and problem management.
Consumerization of IT drives the need for an integrated
infrastructure management approach enabling the delivery
of consistent end-to-end service levels.
The benefits of holistic IT
Infrastructure Management:
• Dynamically match resources to demand
• Maintain workload performance policies
• Monitor and meter consumption and
utilization for chargeback and service
provider accountability
• Improve datacenter security
and compliance
• Minimize change risks by empowering
a Change Advisory Board (CAB) with
trusted dependency data to evaluate
change impact.
• Allow IT to mitigate key challenges
associated with moving datacenter
assets for consolidation, cloud, and
virtualization projects
Disparate hardware platforms, operating systems, and applications
increase the complexity of IT operations and the risk of security attacks.
First steps in establishing systems and
security management programs:
Discovery
Auditing efforts are more efficient and
effective. Organizations can minimize costs
associated with failing software audits.
Inventory
Inventory and configuration
clarity enables IT to better
serve LOBs.
Managing datacenter resources in multiple locations
is critical. Organizations must know:
What assets
they have
Where assets
are located
What condition
assets are in
How use of assets
affects finances
With visibility to identify under- and unused hardware and
software organizations can optimize their IT infrastructure.
Complex IT ecosystems require IT organizations to
broker, integrate, and orchestrate the delivery of
3rd platform IT systems and services.
Optimized Infrastructure
management can deliver
business productivity benefits
Improve the ability of IT teams to support business needs by
enabling better understanding of application and datacenter
environments. Increase productivity for employees through
better application performance and scalability.
IDC recommends that IT infrastructure management initiatives
focus on IT asset management, IT security, enterprise
architecture, portfolio management, change and configuration
management, and IT financial management.
For the full story on the importance of discovery and depending
mapping solutions in accomplishing holistic IT infrastructure
management, we invite you to read the IDC White Paper,
Business Value of BMC Discovery Software, sponsored by BMC.
The IT asset management software market estimated in 2019:
$2.5 Billion
Up from $1.7 billion in 2014
a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2%.
On average, organizations that
use BMC Discovery reported:
Improve IT staff productivity
Deeper visibility allows
faster problem resolution
Improve SLAs
Deliver services faster
Improve vulnerability
management
Make auditing efforts more
effective and efficient
Transform IT teams
Develop strategic service
delivery organizations
Simplify management
Reduce operation costs
Transform
service delivery
Create flexible and
cost effective
environments
Business benefits over
five years per 100 servers
$127,679
A payback
period of
8 MONTHS
ROI over five years
470%
IT Staff Productivity Improvement
Risk Mitigation
$8,495
Average annual savings - value of IT staff time saved
and cost reductions associated with audits
$1.08 million per organization
per 100 servers over five years
IT infrastructure cost reductions
On average, annual IT infrastructure savings amount to:
Average business productivity savings amount to
$193,000 per organization
$7,202
$911,000 per organization
per 100 servers over five years
$1,524
per 100 servers over five years
On average, annual savings from IT staff
productivity gains amount to:
$18,433
$2.33 million per organization
per 100 servers over five years