Strategies beyond Asset Transactions and Coordination

When left solely to IT departments, the discipline of IT asset management is diminished in focus around the daily handling of transactions such as updating asset data about different lifecycle stages. The core disciplines of fiscal responsibility and sound business decisions around hardware and software almost never surface. As a result, companies can still adequately run IT from an operational standpoint, but ignore the need to run IT as a business.

Blazent analytics are focused on the business decisioning of IT performance required in today’s need for financial transparency. Analysts and senior management can walk through business scenarios and get quick, consistent analysis of the overall financial health of the IT environment and quickly drill down to areas that need attention. Blazent Analytics modules give you different views and uses within your company.

• Resource Analytics — Organized around the major asset categories such as servers, PCs, software, etc. IT managers, procurement and planners can get instant, accurate views of the asset landscape.
• Business Scenario Analytics — Exploratory analysis around common business situations that are prevalent in enterprise IT organizations, such as migration planning, consolidation, standardization, license compliance and others.
• Executive Analytics — Dynamic, flexible reports and dashboards encapsulated at the highest level of aggregation and mapped to the major initiatives and objectives of company-wide IT, including IT cost management and planning and control of major initiatives.
• Data Quality Analytics — Provide detailed reporting on data accuracy across IT and business sources.

From IT Data to Business Decisions

Blazent provides the business intelligence engine necessary to provide answers to the questions you know, as well as exploring those you don't. With a guided, business-focused view of IT, including drill downs, pivots, filters, graphs, dashboards, relational reports, queries and business scenario modeling, Blazent IT Asset Analytics plot the fastest course from data to decisions.

The Blazent platform enables IT organizations to:

• Gain ready access to qualified information about their diverse, complex, changing environment
• Identify and establish relationships and correlations across data sources
• Examine and explore a broad scope of information across the business
• Pivot, drilldown, trendspot, datamine, analyze and develop reliable conclusions
• Build repeatable analytics around past analyses and practices

Blazent Analytics are fully web-based and optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, and do not require the installation of any special applets or client-side code. And they provide customizable role-based access to information.