Platform Datasheet
BDNA Solutions
for Troux
Introduction
At a Glance
BDNA delivers the industry’s most authoritative IT data to the Troux
platform so enterprise architects can optimize decision-making and IT
investments. To understand the current state and model the future state,
enterprise architects need a clean aggregate view of enterprise assets.
However, gathering the technical and non-technical market intelligence to
support planning and decision-making involves substantial overhead and
error. In addition, different business units often define enterprise assets
differently—right down to their fundamental naming and representation.
Understanding the true state of the infrastructure demands not
just 360-degree visibility, but a common language to define terms
consistently across the enterprise.
BDNA Technopedia, the industry’s
most authoritative source of
enterprise IT data, provides the
common language of IT. It gives
Troux the data needed to knock
down the walls between business
units, break expertise out of
departmental silos, and help
enterprise architects build a strong
foundation for aligning business,
compliance, security, and legal
requirements across the enterprise.
BDNA’s integration with Troux’s Enterprise Portfolio Management
gives Troux customers the data needed to optimize the connected
set of enterprise portfolios: goals and strategy, business architecture,
applications, technology, information, and investments. BDNA
datadelivers the visibility and transparency needed to understand
and optimize the connections between all these portfolios so IT can
understand the present and architect the future.
The BDNA Value
Enterprise architects are the drivers behind transforming IT to align with business strategy
— but lack of timely, reliable data hinders enterprise architecture goals. When the multiple
data sources in the enterprise each represent asset data inconsistently, they face challenges
in determining the true state of the enterprise:
Lack of a common language across IT
Lack of accurate and real-time information about the environment impedes decision-making,
while rampant variability in the naming and representation of assets and asset attributes
across IT, Finance, Procurement, Operations, Compliance and other business units makes it
nearly impossible to integrate data sources into an aggregate view. Valuable product data is
inconsistently named and described, key pieces of information are missing, and critical data
is frequently out of date. Poor quality data leads to poor decisions.
Lack of context:
Without adequate technical and non-technical market intelligence to support planning and
decision-making, your existing sources cannot provide the reliable intelligence necessary to
communicate standards or plan lifecycle management related activities. Regardless of the
Enterprise Architecture framework in use, enterprises need comprehensive and accurate
supporting information and context as well as a standard nomenclature .
BDNA solves this problem by providing clean, comprehensive and contextual information for
enterprise architecture decision-making. Good data is foundational to decision-making.
Key Benefits of the
Platform
Reduce risk: Technopedia
enables Troux users to keep
pace with vendor updates on
product lifecycle information
and manage risk from
unsupported or obsolete
products
Lower operational costs:
Technopedia eliminates the
overhead and expense of
constantly managing the
manual product catalog
Improve planning:
Technopedia’s lifecycle and
support content pack enables
proactive planning by giving
users visibility into vendor
support well in advance
Make data-driven, confident
decisions: Technopedia enriches
the TrouxSource platform’s
with additional product lifecycle
coverage, and market context
for greater relevance
Drive alignment with business:
Technopedia offers unhindered
visibility into all enterprise
software and hardware assets
to streamline the roadmapping
process for the future state
while accounting for current
market realities
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Build the foundation for business-IT transformation
An accurate, comprehensive and real-time picture of the IT landscape provides necessary clarity on the assets in the enterprise,
revealing interrelationships and dependencies, the information they exchange, and the processes they support.
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Gain clarity: Get a clean, comprehensive, real-time picture of all assets, including applications and the technologies they run on, for
greater visibility into all process and data flows.
Ensure consistency and transparency of your IT landscape by using a common language for all IT assets.
Timely data for architecture decisions: Choose readily available product and market intelligence that supports the initiatives you
are driving.
Rely on the most authoritative data: Whether you use ArchiMate or TOGAF, rely on Technopedia, the most authoritative source of
enterprise IT data, to drive the best possible decisions.
Achieve effective governance and compliance
Enable appropriate decision-making with complete, accurate, timely data from the IT enterprise. Lay the foundation for the IT enterprise
to carry out management’s strategies, directions, and policies. Improve governance with an auditable baseline of enterprise assets and
processes. Improve performance with a holistic approach to governance.
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Communicate standards: Use the common language of IT to drive and communicate standard representation of all assets across
the enterprise.
Manage risk: Identify, analyze, predict, and manage risks better by using the common language to create a reliable baseline of all
your assets and the potential risks involved. Manage technological, financial, and information security risks effectively by leveraging
the product and market intelligence in BDNA Technopedia.
Improve compliance: Leverage BDNA Technopedia to achieve compliance with business goals, policies, procedures, laws and
regulations.
Improve agility and flexibility.
Provide the CIO’s office with immediate answers about end-to-end processes in the enterprise.
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Increase responsiveness: Back various business scenarios and gain a competitive edge with the most current, authoritative, rich
data in the industry
Support growth: Improve the ability to meet business demands by ensuring your IT enterprise always has the data it needs to
support growth. Leverage BDNA’s data to lay the foundation for a flexible and responsive IT enterprise
Integrated processes and views: Enable efficient sharing of asset data across various functions by laying the foundation for a
common representation of all assets in the enterprise. Always be current on the technologies and support information in your IT
enterprise.
BDNA Product Suite
BDNA Solutions enable increased control with a holistic approach to enterprise architecture and portfolio management. BDNA
Solutions lay the foundation for making the best, most effective decisions by providing accurate, comprehensive and real-time
enterprise asset data and market intelligence.
BDNA lends a common language to your IT enterprise using Technopedia, the industry’s most authoritative source of enterprise IT data.
Enterprise architects using Troux get timely and accurate supporting data and context for planning and decision-making, including
information on product lifecycle, technology compatibility, migrations, standards, costs, licensing, risks, and more. Whether you want
to communicate standards, improve responsiveness, lower costs, or achieve better governance, BDNA provides real-time data for
confident decision-making.
BDNA Technopedia™
BDNA Technopedia is the world’s largest repository of information on enterprise software and hardware, categorizing and aligning
more than 1.2 million products and 57 million data points (as of March 2015) of timely, relevant product and market intelligence about
those products. It receives more than 2,000 updates daily, ensuring that it always remains up-to-date.
BDNA Technopedia Catalog™
Technopedia Catalog is a structured catalog of hardware and software product releases that provides clean, consistent baseline
information about products and manufacturers. This data creates the common language of IT necessary to map data from multiple
sources to a single identity and align data and insights from every department or business unit for confident planning and
decision-making.
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BDNA Technopedia Content Packs
Technopedia Content Packs extend Technopedia Catalog with immediately actionable information for specific use cases such
as product lifecycle, hardware specifications, product pricing, Windows migrations, virtualization compatibility, and much more.
Companies using the Technopedia Content Packs get real-time market intelligence for use without any need for incremental massaging.
BDNA Integration for Troux
The Troux plugin for BDNA data allows customers to populate BDNA data into the TrouxSource Platform, which contains a best-in-class
metamodel providing a library of component and relationship types used to represent enterprise assets.
The Troux plugin pulls data from the Technopedia Catalog and the Technopedia Lifecycle content pack to populate the metadata in
TrouxSource. This gives customers immediate data on manufacturer, software product/version/edition, and hardware product/model,
enriching it with information such as software lifecycle (GA date, EOL date, etc.) and hardware lifecycle (GA date, last ship date, etc.).
Companies can also adopt Technopedia for enterprise-wide use to align all enterprise data with the data in Troux and get real-time
market intelligence for all IT products. This enables a common language across all of IT for unhindered visibility across all platforms and
lines of business.
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BDNA Drives the Most Effective Business
Decisions By Delivering the Industry’s Most
Authoritative Enterprise IT Data.
How to Purchase
Support and Professional Services
BDNA creates better data about their IT estate that
organizations use to make better decisions, lower costs
and accelerate the pace of their businesses. To start
using BDNA please visit bdna.com, fill out our contact
form and request a demo of our products so you can
begin to promote business agility and efficiency in your
enterprise immediately.
BDNA understands how important it is to respond
quickly, drive better results and ask the right questions
to its customers. Our customer support and professional
services is committed to keeping customers happy and
up-to-date so their needs are met each and every day.
Communication is a key element when partnering with
our customers and helps in building stronger and longlasting relationships. We want our customers to know we
are here to help them in the short and long-term, as well
as understand the value our products bring to their data
when making business decisions.
Find out more
For more information call 650-625-9530 or visit www.bdna.com to learn more about how BDNA can
transform your enterprise IT data.
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