MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 1, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- BDNA Corporation (www.bdnacorp.com), the leading provider of Global Technology Inventory solutions, announced it has joined the BMC Software MarketZone Program to deliver fast and accurate enterprise-wide IT inventory and visibility to the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database. BDNA's solutions focus on capturing deep inventory information across asset classes ranging from desktops to servers, printers, network devices and industry-specific equipment such as networked scanners and MRI devices.
BDNA also announced today that the BDNA Accelerator for BMC Atrium CMDB has been certified for use with the BMC Atrium CMDB and through the AIE protocol, assuring customers a seamless, out of the box connection of BDNA data into BMC Atrium CMDB. The integration of BDNA and BMC Atrium CMDB gives customers visibility into their IT infrastructure, enabling them to quickly baseline and audit IT hardware and software operations and spend across the enterprise for complex, distributed and heterogeneous environments such as government agencies and healthcare organizations.
"The early success and adoption of the BMC Atrium CMDB demonstrates the value that a CMDB can bring to any enterprise," said Fred Johannessen, vice president, Technology Alliance and MarketZone, BMC Software. "To ensure our customers have the greatest visibility into their infrastructures and are poised to make successful business decisions in partnership with the IT organization, BMC is committed to working with partners, such as BDNA, to ensure our mutual customers have accurate, trusted baseline inventory information."
"BDNA is focused on giving IT organizations the information they need to better manage their business - both operationally and financially - within their dynamic, complex environments," said Ray Homan, CEO of BDNA Corporation. "By populating the BMC Atrium CMDB seamlessly with our data, we are able to rapidly populate BMC's industry-leading CMDB with information about all IP-connected assets, including various industry-specific equipment such as process-control devices, medical devices and more. This enables customers to begin using this repository more quickly to manage their complete environment and continuously monitor its integrity to increase decision-making confidence."
The BDNA Accelerator for BMC Atrium CMDB enables joint BMC and BDNA customers to:
* Populate their BMC Atrium CMDB with inventory of diverse types of networked technology assets across the enterprise * Maintain the BMC Atrium CMDB records over time by updating the CMDB with BDNA-discovered asset information including deep software inventory through BDNA's agent-less mechanism * Identify gaps or discrepancies in their CMDB and quickly reconcile their records against the reality of their environment
BMC Software Service Impact Management solutions link business services and IT infrastructure to help manage what matters to deliver Business Service Management. These solutions, including BMC Atrium CMDB, manage the impact of technology changes on business and business changes on technology in real-time and into the future. Service Impact Management solutions fully align IT with the priorities of the business.
About BDNA
BDNA provides Global Technology Inventory solutions to Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies. Our customers use our software products to accurately inventory and analyze their technology assets to support and accelerate their IT financial management and compliance initiatives: for example, license and security compliance, IT resource planning and optimization, outsourcing contract negotiations, auditing and monitoring, and acceleration of CMDB projects. BDNA is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices across the United States and Europe. For more information, please visit www.bdnacorp.com.
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