The Problem of Poor Visibility in IT

• Stranded IT assets are unaccounted for.
  
  • According to analysts stranded or underutilized networking and IT assets account for 5% to 40% of the install base.
• Trouble shooting takes too long.
  • Networks and circuits have to be redrawn by hand every time an outage occurs.
• Capacity planning is inefficient.
  • Budget allocation suffers due to lack of data on measurable growth rates.
• Costs of manual documentation are high.
  • Tools like Visio or netViz are highly manual and use up time that could be used on network design or improvements.

In summary: “You Cannot Manage What You Don’t Know”

Graphical Networks’ netTerrain Solution

Reduce IT Costs

• With a visual single “Pane of Glass” view into the Infrastructure customers can align IT investments with Business Objectives.

• Our template-based catalog alone reduces documentation time by more than 40%, thus improving operational efficiency.
• By comparing the network “as-is” with the Network “as-planned” capacity planning is optimized.
• Adapters providing real-time device state reports and inventory reconcilliation help recover stranded and underutilized assets.

Improve Service Levels

• Compared to file-based provisioning methods, our system speeds up deployment of new assets and services.
• Circuit Layout Records and Dynamic Connectivity Views provide actionable, real- time data to improve trouble shooting and MTTR figures.

Mitigate Risks

• With multiple permission levels and sophisticated built-in business rules, the system minimizes inconsistencies and problems common in file-based tools.
• Security breaches can be visualized or accessed through audit trails.

To find out more about our IT Visualization tool, netTerrain, visit HERE