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BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping pays for itself — sometimes in as little as 30 days!

How much can this product save your organization? With ROI like this, it’s clear why our clients call their BMC Atrium Discovery implementations 'self-funding initiatives'!

Rapidly identify opportunities for cost savings in hardware and software with a single system of record for all physical and virtual assets.
Enable better change management decisions and faster incident recovery with a comprehensive, accurate, and automated view of application topology.
Uncover potential risk with a 360-degree view of applications and infrastructure

The example below highlights the ROI for a data center with 1,000 servers. Results are evaluated over four years. Roll over the >> icons for more information on each line-item. You can also use your own numbers!

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Overview
Number of servers (100-5000)
Current full server audits		per year
Fully loaded personnel cost >>	$	per year
Discount rate >>
Financial
Data center age >>		years
Maintenance per server	$
Power and cooling costs per server	$
Rack space cost per server	$
Opex saving per Refreshed Server	$
Change
Major incidents		per year
Average cost of a major incident	$
Failed change rate
Average failed change remediation time		hours
BSM
Applications monitored by BSM
Current manual server map refreshes		per year
Average number of servers >>		per app
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BMC Atrium Discovery Cost Savings Analysis	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4
Removed decommissioned servers >>
Refreshed servers >>
Power savings >>
Reduction in failed change rate & fix time >>
Business application modelling >>
Automated audits >>
Total Savings
BMC Atrium Discovery Cost Avoidance Analysis	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4
Reduction in major incidents >>
Total Savings
BMC Atrium Discovery Investment Analysis	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4
Total Investment >>

We've made some assumptions about the savings you can achieve with BMC Atrium Discovery, based on our experience and that of industry experts. It’s not possible to adjust these assumptions in this online calculator, but if you are interested in a customized ROI analysis, please contact us and we can tweak the model based on your needs.

Our Experience Tells Us:
Time to fully audit a server	1 hour
Time to audit service map dependencies per server	1 hour
Expected decommissioned servers >>	2.6%
Expected obsolete equipment needing refresh >>	3.6%
Expected unsupported operating systems	0.6%
Expected unknown security flaws	1.8%
Expected network/server misconfigurations	2.9%
CMDB starting data quality level	75%
Faults caused by poor change process >>	80%
Faults eliminated through higher Data Quality	25%
Reduction in change remediation time	30%
Changes per server >>	4.4 per year

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