| IT Blueprint™ |
| IT Blueprint™ solves many costly, time - consuming challenges associated with Enterprise IT management. |
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Many organizations do not know what IT assets they manage and, more importantly,
cannot associate those assets with the business services that they provide. |
| IT Blueprint™ overcomes those challenges. |
| Simplifying IT Management - One Central Point of Command and Control |
| IT Blueprint™ gives you an entirely new understanding of your IT service environment: It graphically and dynamically graphically depicts each of your business systems
along with all information regarding each system’s component IT assets - from the involved software and interfaces to the servers, network switches, disk subsystems and other components - and maintains it all in one centralized and easily accessible repository. |
| How does it work? SNIF™ discovers and interrogates each asset in each of your
IT systems and IT Blueprint™ graphically depicts each of your business systems as interactive multi-level “IT blueprints™” (topologies). |
| You can then manage all of your IT data at its most powerful level - as the data is related in each of your business services. You will have up to the minute “live” graphical detailed diagrams of each of your business services and their components and details of each such component readily available to all authorized IT users - at their desk tops. IT Blueprint™ - instantly establishes one centralized point of command and control for all IT service management information. Quite simply, this elegant solution is a prerequisite to achieving success with service-level, change, risk problem, availability and performance management. |
| Easy, Cost-Effective Management of All IT Changes |
| With a host of “unknowns,” changes in production environments are the single greatest source of IT operational costs and service instability. IT Blueprint™ eliminates these uncertainties by making accurate views of your business systems, their components and their various functions. With the help of IT Blueprint™, your organization can easily meet existing service levels and plan for and manage any IT changes. For example: |
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An infrastructure-maintenance change such as a database upgrade or patch: Do you know which applications will be affected by this change? IT Blueprint™ provides the answers, instantly showing all applications that “touch” the database in any way. |
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An application change such as a software upgrade: Do you know which databases, software,
servers and network components interact with the software? Simply open IT Blueprint™ and see it all graphically, export the data or view in report form. |
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A proposed new project such as changing your Finance application to adapt to a merger: What will it affect? Is it feasible? What changes need to be made in the existing Finance applications? Open IT Blueprint™ on your desktop and you can model the prospective new application with your company's actual, real-time data and conduct an impact analysis using accurate data. |
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| Mitigating the Risk of IT Staff Changes |
| When key IT personnel depart the company, or are temporarily unavailable, knowledge of key services (infrastructure and business applications) suddenly becomes unavailable,
and, in some cases, is lost forever. IT Blueprint™ greatly minimizes the impact
of staff changes and turnover -- a critical long-term value to the enterprise. |
| Regulatory Compliance / Conformity |
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Change control is vitally important in helping your enterprise comply with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. IT Blueprint™ greatly simplifies compliance efforts. Establish a central repository for valuable, auditable documentation about IT services and the underlying technologies services by attaching documentation
to each managed IT component. |
| Immediate - and Substantial - ROI |
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In addition to the immediate and dramatic cost and time savings of establishing
one centralized point of IT command and control, IT Blueprint™ will also pay for
itself many times over on the very first application-development project. The savings
in architecture discovery, design and documentation costs for one project alone
can be dramatic. |
| Easy to Install, Use and Maintain |
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Installs in minutes with Symphion SNIF™ installation. |
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Has the look, feel and operation of MS Windows applications. |
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