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BMC Discovery

BMC Discovery enriches the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) by automatically discovering People, Business Processes, Applications and IT infrastructure data to provide an up-to-date picture of your IT environment, the people who depend upon it, and the business processes that make up your critical business services. Download the datasheet on the BMC Discovery Solution (pdf)

FEATURE  We've Got a CMDB How Do We Get This Thing Populated? As the role of configuration management has begun to mature over the last two years, many organizations are now at the point of being ready to implement a CMDB strategy. However, many of these organizations are overwhelmed with where to start and how to populate and maintain configuration data within the CMDB. This webinar will examine the role automated discovery tools play in ensuring a successful beginning to your CMDB efforts. It will examine the types of tools available to help you not only populate the CMDB with configurations and their relationships, but also help ensure the data is accurately maintained over time. Register now for the Examine the Role Automated Discovery Tools Play in Populating a Configuration Management Database Webinar.

BMC Discovery includes three discovery capabilities that have out-of-the-box integrations to populate and maintain the BMC Atrium CMDB: People Discovery – Auto-discovers end users and customers to establish dependencies from people to business processes, applications and IT infrastructure. BMC Identity Discovery - Enriches the BMC Atrium CMDB with auto-discovered data about the people who produce and consume IT and business services Business Process Discovery – Auto-discovers business processes and services to establish a link from processes to people, applications and IT infrastructure. BMC Discovery for Business Processes - Enriches the BMC Atrium CMDB with auto-discovery of business processes Application and Infrastructure Discovery – Auto-discovers the Applications and IT infrastructure, identifies resources for deeper collection of configuration information and application dependencies, builds relationships between IT infrastructure resources, and establishes the link from IT to people and business processes BMC Foundation Discovery - Enriches the CMDB with auto-discovery of critical CIs BMC Configuration Discovery - Enriches the CMDB with auto-discovery of detailed configurations BMC Topology Discovery - Enriches the BMC Atrium CMDB with auto-discovery of CIs and CI relationships, including application dependency mapping BMC Discovery for z/OS - Enriches the BMC Atrium CMDB with auto-discovery of mainframe information The pairing of BMC Discovery with the BMC Atrium CMDB provides the foundation layer that is critical to supporting IT service management and the BMC Business Service Management (BSM) Routes to Value - quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. White Papers and Articles Server Consolidation and Virtualization (pdf) Greening the Data Center (pdf) Business Service Management, Innovation, and Industry Trends (pdf) BMC Atrium CMDB: The Market-leading CMDB for Effective Business Service Management (BSM) Deployments (pdf) Best Practices for Modeling Business Entities in the BMC Atrium CMDB (pdf) Bridging the Gap Between Business Processes and the IT Environment (pdf) Building a Foundation for Managing Business-Aligned IT Environments (pdf) Viewpoint – People and Business Process Discovery (pdf)