Change Management

Change Management applications are critical tools to help organizations plan and implement hardware and software changes, track those changes and comply with regulatory requirements. The more the actionable information is complete, up to date and auditable, the better positioned the company is to achieve their IT change objectives.

Centennial Discovery offers Change Management ISVs the most powerful and comprehensive software tool for dynamically finding, identifying and auditing all corporate hardware and software on a network in near real-time. Discovery provides critical information to help your customer make better informed decisions, reduce non-value add IT costs, effectively plan change initiatives and comply with regulatory requirements. Discovery offers:

  • Complete and real-time change history of all network assets
  • State management
  • Maintain service levels through automated asset discovery, accuracy of data discovered and automatic population of a CMDB
  • Scalability over heterogeneous and widely distributed environments – to 150,000 assets and beyond
  • Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Netware, Unix, Linux, etc.)
  • Dynamic updates – no need to wait for heavy-overhead batch processing
  • Small client footprint – creates minimal impact on client machine
  • Low bandwidth requirements – delta reporting limits message traffic
  • Low maintenance – automatic updates reduce need for administrator attention

Integrating Discovery Makes Good Business Sense

  • Improve competitive positioning by broadening and enhancing product capabilities
  • Focus on core competency of developing world class IT lifecycle management solutions
  • Bring a more powerful solution to market sooner
  • Leap-frog competition with a more powerful, integrated
  • Leverage the leading discovery tool already in use by more than 5000 customers with more than 4 million licenses deployed
  • Up-sell the new solution to existing customers
  • Effectively compete in situations where asset discovery is a requirement
  • Retain customers looking for a more powerful discovery solution

Your Customer Benefits from Using Discovery

  • Achieve quicker ROI from their IT investment
  • Reduce average help desk call time through instant visibility to hardware and software profiles including recent changes
  • Handle more calls with same number of agent s by significantly reducing walk-around time
  • Meet HIPAA, SOX and other regulatory requirements
  • Make decisions based on an accurate and up to date picture of your environment
  • Reduce IT spend through standardization and strategic purchasing
  • More easily troubleshoot network problems through greater accuracy of network assets
  • Increase employee productivity through faster incident resolution
  • Reduce training time by using a single, integrated solution instead of a multi-vendor solution

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