Technology Overview

Blazent’s Role in IT - From Silos to Success

Traditional business management tools (ERP, HR, Accounting, etc.) do not articulate the nuances of IT assets and services, and IT management tools focus on the more immediate concerns of reactive firefighting and coordinating asset and service functions. To maintain a business perspective in the collision of diversified environments, rapidly changing expectations, and a growing amount of collected data, organizations need to mature beyond their comfortable silos of IT disciplines and tools.

Blazent is a fully-built platform centered on business intelligence (BI) principles to deliver the most analysis-driven information from the widest range of data sources. Blazent aggregates numerous data sources across the lines of IT and business functions to deliver a unique perspective on IT that allows actionable strategic decisions.

Unique Value

Blazent provides analysis to the highest levels of the organization, specifically around optimizing IT assets and their physical and financial lifecycles. By consolidating data sources from operational, transactional, and business management tools, Blazent is pioneering the management of IT in three main areas:

• Information Integration - Blazent provides vendor-agnostic integration and mapping of IT data from multiple sources (including CMDBs, network discovery data, HR systems, help desks, procurement and contract records, etc.). See details on Blazent’s Metagen Integration Framework.
• Business Analytics - Blazent has created deep, out-of-the-box guided analytics and business scenarios to drive immediate value from this refined information and to support decision-making towards an organization's financial, operational and strategic goals. Organizations can peer into and position data to gain a comprehensive state of their IT environment. See details on Blazent’s IT Intelligence Analytics.
• Data Quality - Confidence is knowing the truth. Blazent provides a comprehensive methodology around automated tools and workflow to cleanse, categorize, reconcile and certify IT data to form a cohesive repository truly reflective of the existing IT and business environment. See details on Blazent’s PurIT Data Quality Certification process.

Because every IT asset management environment has unique characteristics can change unexpectedly, the Blazent platform is built to maximize responsiveness and flexibility. It also stresses data quality to ensure accurate, believable analysis.