IBM's SmartInsight is a fast and affordable way to get strategic, targeted insight into your technology assets.
The SmartInsight solution combines IBM's expert analysis and BDNA’s industry-leading discovery and analysis technology to support your critical technology decisions.
As IT manager or Financial manager, you have to decide based on your actual technology environment.
As part of the total solution, IBM's experts use SmartInsight to create a comprehensive fact base about your existing infrastructure.
They then use the analytic capabilities of the solution to generate targeted analysis and reports addressing your specific needs.
You can use SmartInsight to solve immediate tactical problems and identify strategic opportunities to reduce cost, alleviate risk, and drive compliance.
What we offer
Highlights
The product supports a wide range of potential objectives, including:
- Plan the Windows Vista upgrade by identifying current OS levels and hardware readiness
- Discover and analyze global assets after a merger or acquisition
- Find underutilized servers for server virtualization or consolidation initiatives
- Track both physical and virtual servers by department or location
- Find any unsupported operating systems or applications
- Track application usage for software licensing negotiations
- Check the security level installed on every workstation
Service detail
Low-risk, low-impact asset discovery
The SmartInsight solution delivers rapid and comprehensive insight into network-attached technology assets. The discovery process is non-intrusive; it does not require agents installed on target systems or administrator-level accounts for servers, so the security of vital systems is never compromised. IBM's SmartInsight creates a comprehensive fact base to support licensing, audit and compliance initiatives and other short-term goals requiring immediate, accurate visibility into technology assets.
Fast, comprehensive service for rapid answers
IBM's SmartInsight is service engagement that completes in a few days and which can be modular depending on your needs.
IBM provides all necessary software, hardware and personnel to run and analyze the collected fact base. These services will be repeated on a regular basis to be able to evaluate the evolution in the technology assets IBM performs IT asset discovery as widely and deeply as needed during the engagement.
Deliverables
The exact deliverables vary depending on engagement needs, but always include the following:
- Operating system analysis and recommendations
- Distinct multivariable reports and analyses based on client needs
- Complete extraction of all discovered asset information
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