MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 9, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- BDNA Corporation, a leading provider of Global Technology Inventory solutions, launched BDNA Inventory 4.1, with BDNA Standards(tm). The latest iteration of the Company's flagship Inventory product helps IT organizations define and manage technology standards and check for compliance to those standards in the organization's global IT environment.
"While many IT organizations have defined technology standards, achieving compliance with those standards is a real challenge," said BDNA CEO Constantin Delivanis. "Few companies have an accurate, up-to-date inventory of all deployed technologies, let alone the ability to analyze compliance with corporate technology standards. With BDNA Standards, organizations can efficiently map operational data to standards and track assets through their lifecycle."
One of the main objectives of BDNA Standards is to help organizations develop and enforce product lifecycle plans, proactively identifying and planning for product lifecycle transitions. Now, IT organizations can develop practical lifecycle plans for each standard product, and identify non-standard deployments across the entire organization to support rapid remediation.
Delivanis said that BDNA Standards leverages the ground-breaking BDNA Inventory solution, which produces rapid, accurate and comprehensive technology inventories for the world's largest IT organizations. BDNA Inventory is a fully automated, non-intrusive way of gaining total visibility into IT assets. The agent-less solution rapidly and accurately identifies and inventories every IP-addressable asset in IT networks -- hardware and software -- across all platforms.
"IT organizations require an efficient and effective approach to linking hardware and software standard definitions to live technology running in their environment," said Patricia Adams, research director at Gartner, Inc. "A definitive reference source for product standards will facilitate the IT standardization process. This will reduce support costs and complexity by identifying and remedying non-standard deployments across entire organizations, including all locations and business units."
Because BDNA Standards is fully integrated with the BDNA Inventory repository, business information such as asset locations and business units can be used to check standards compliance by organization and location. The integrated BDNA Product Catalog converts all discovered variations on a product and manufacturing names into common, commercial names, creating a single reference source. BDNA Standards then automatically flags all similar technologies that are not compliant with those standards, and organizes that information in easy-to-share graphics.
"BDNA has reinvented how organizations can govern and oversee global IT assets," said Delivanis. "BDNA Standards is an important extension of this innovation. When it comes to managing initiatives ranging from software license optimization, outsourcing oversight and CMDB implementations to major resource consolidations and cost reduction projects, BDNA delivers a very unique value."
BDNA Inventory 4.1 with BDNA Standards is available immediately. For further information, please contact BDNA at sales@bdnacorp.com.
About BDNA
BDNA provides Enterprise Asset Inventory solutions to Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies. Customers use BDNA software products to accurately inventory and analyze technology assets to support and accelerate 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