BMC Helix Discovery

Ensure business users can access the applications and services they need, when they need them.

• Have a single source for your application dependency documentation
• Improve Change Advisory Board efficiency with trusted data for impact analysis
• Prioritize and route tickets based on an application's business impact
• Reduce MTTR (mean time to recovery) with accurate data for root cause analysis
• Identify infrastructure weak points to stay ahead of problems
• Eliminate manual efforts to collect configuration data

Leverage the automated discovery of assets and mapping of their technical and business dependencies as the foundation of an integrated SecOps approach, leading to business-aware security and a higher level of automation.

• Document inventory for compliance requirements
• Identify servers or workloads that could be back door entry points
• Understand the business impact of a threat and which assets may be affected
• Control configuration access rights, encryption, and depth of discovery actions
• Combine with TrueSight Vulnerability Management for Third-Party Applications to create a remediation plan for previously unknown vulnerability access points

Sixty-two percent of CIOs don’t believe there is adequate transparency into IT cost, contribution, and performance. Improve governance using included analytics to marry automated discovery and asset management sources with actual cost data.

• Understand infrastructure cost and trends to proactively manage IT spend to budget
• Manage application costs and resourcing
• Optimize run costs and shift savings to innovation projects
• Prioritize multi-cloud investment decisions
• Drive shared accountability of IT costs with the business

Transformation isn’t just about moving to the cloud. The same principles have been used in years past for data center consolidation and expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and other large scale changes in the IT environment. BMC Helix Discovery has played a key role in these transformation projects since its inception 15 years ago and remains a necessity for success.

• Understand current environment and footprint for transformation planning
• Group and prioritize what should be transformed or consolidated
• Execute and establish new baselines