ERP for IT Suggested for Better Visibility
Panelists at a Dow Jones Enterprise Ventures 2006 conference, session entitled "Big Governance: Expanding IT Management" featuring Blazent CEO Gary Oliver

"Speaking with a lot of senior IT executives in businesses, it's amazing to me how little visibility they have into services being providing, how much they cost and how value can be measured', AMR Research Director Dennis Gaughan says." 

Ventana Research presents model for IT Governance - Good goverance puts IT and business objects in sync

"It's time CIOs manage their assets, projects and resources more effectively, making it possible to allocate time not only to "keep the lights on" maintenance issues but also to help the business find new opportunities and protect against new threats. You can no longer count on these crucial needs to be met by one ERP or customer relationship management system. Fortunately, new applications can make IT performance management easier. Blazent, for example, provides IT governance and IT management applications" 

New software may help companies understand the true scope and cost of IT infrastructure

"Start-ups such as Blazent have introduced products that not only capture a user's full inventory of hardware boxes and software licenses, but also provide tools for analyzing each asset's current and historical usage, its associated costs, and the applications and business processes that rely on it. These products can help IT managers better understand the costs of running any specific software application now or in the future, perhaps after a major extension has been completed. They can also help identify idle gear and unused software, and help IT managers enforce standardization on selected brands and negotiate better prices" 

Asset management moves beyond tracking inventory

"You can also find vendors such as Blazent that specialize in this kind of IT-based business intelligence and in analytics that analyze information across asset management and other systems as well."" 

Blazent combines discovery and analytics for better IT asset management

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Build a Business and IT Foundation for BI

"Organizations have never been so eager to adopt business intelligence (BI) technology. Unfortunately, lack of alignment between people, process and technology has led to many misguided business intelligence deployments. Using a business-centric methodology and process-improvement type approach organizations can leverage BI efficiently to enable Performance Management.""