[June 22, 2015]

BDNA Shines Light on Winning, Losing IT Asset Management Strategies

BDNA, the leader in delivering the industry's most authoritative enterprise IT data, today released a report on the crucial role IT asset management plays in avoiding costly software vendor audits. The findings are part of a quarterly State of the Enterprise report that covers the most important issues affecting business IT, including asset management, procurement, security and enterprise architecture.

The report draws on findings based on a survey by Enterprise Management Associates that profiles how today's enterprises are gathering and managing IT asset information to optimize IT.

"At BDNA, we believe it is important for the industry to be able to examine the major issues facing the enterprise landscape - one of the most important being vendor audits," said Walker White, president of BDNA. "The report's initial findings underscore how crucial asset management is to the health of the enterprise. However, the report also reveals that many IT managers have given up on managing their assets because the process is seen as too daunting. It is clear that enterprises are in need of unified, effectivesolutions that give them a better handle on their assets and also help avoid costly, dreaded vendor audits."

With the added complications of BYOD, cloud infrastructure and IoT growth, it is more crucial than ever for enterprises to establish unified, sustainable and effective asset management practices. According to BDNA's report, in order to break the cycle of being caught out of compliance, enterprises must:

• Get real about asset management proficiency: Make an honest assessment of how well the enterprise is tackling this task - if it is at all
• Understand how an enterprise has failed: Learn where current efforts have fallen short
• Take action: The longer organizations delay adopting a strategy, the further behind they fall

"IT asset management is too often a fragmented hodgepodge of tools, stakeholders and processes -especially when it includes, as it should, the many cross-domain hardware and software investments required to optimize IT as a business," said Dennis Drogseth (News - Alert), vice president at Enterprise Management Associates. "On the other hand, our research shows that when effectively normalized, enriched and organized for multi-purpose stakeholder consumption, ITAM data can become an effective foundation for driving a wide range of critical IT initiatives, from software and security audits, to data center consolidation, to optimizing IT infrastructure for virtualization, just to name a few."

BDNA's full report on how enterprises can reconcile their asset management practices to avoid future license audits can be found here.

About BDNA

BDNA creates the most authoritative enterprise IT data. Armed with this invaluable information, enterprises will make the best decisions possible, lower costs and risks as well as accelerate the pace of their business. To produce the most relevant results, BDNA maintains Technopedia, the most complete, current and reliable content repository about hardware and software. This catalog is the foundation from which BDNA creates the highest quality enterprise IT data in the industry, which in turn results in visibility, insight and information enterprises can trust. Venture backed and based in Mountain View, California, BDNA operates globally with customers across all segments and vertical markets. For more information, please visit www.bdna.com.

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