Sponsor: BMC Software

To fulfill the strategic role expected of IT in the modern digital enterprise, it’s essential to take a holistic approach to asset management with full visibility into dependencies.

By applying discovery and dependency automation at scale to gain complete information into assets, configurations, and dependencies, IT can:

• Respond to audits more quickly and accurately
• Eliminate waste in the software budget
• Make better decisions about data center consolidation and the cloud

To ensure efficient, reliable, and secure operations, companies should go beyond infrastructure inventory and take a holistic approach to discovery to gain the deeper knowledge and understanding needed to make the right decisions in the data center. This white paper will explain how holistic data center discovery can help IT:

• Gain full visibility and understanding of the data center environment
• Effectively manage services, ensure performance and availability, and maintain compliance
• Make informed decisions in the context of business impact

Find out how IT Service Management (ITSM) can bring order and relief to an overwhelmed IT department, giving the team more time to focus on big-picture initiatives and help drive the whole business faster.

In this eBook, Salesforce shares 4 elements of ITSM that are critical to IT empowerment, including:

• Self-service options
• Low–friction communication
• Reporting and dashboards
• A future-ready platform

Your business users want an easy to access, intuitive way to use the services IT provides. Discover how an IT service broker model can help you deliver a great experience for users and increase productivity for your business.

This ebook presents everything you need to know, including:

• Trends and concepts redefining today’s IT
• What to look for in an enterprise IT service brokering solution
• Next-level methods for reducing costs and increasing productivity

To fulfill the strategic role expected of IT in the modern digital enterprise, it’s essential to take a holistic approach to asset management with full visibility into dependencies.

By applying discovery and dependency automation at scale to gain complete information into assets, configurations, and dependencies, IT can:

• Respond to audits more quickly and accurately
• Eliminate waste in the software budget
• Make better decisions about data center consolidation and the cloud

To ensure efficient, reliable, and secure operations, companies should go beyond infrastructure inventory and take a holistic approach to discovery to gain the deeper knowledge and understanding needed to make the right decisions in the data center. This white paper will explain how holistic data center discovery can help IT:

• Gain full visibility and understanding of the data center environment
• Effectively manage services, ensure performance and availability, and maintain compliance
• Make informed decisions in the context of business impact

Find out how IT Service Management (ITSM) can bring order and relief to an overwhelmed IT department, giving the team more time to focus on big-picture initiatives and help drive the whole business faster.

In this eBook, Salesforce shares 4 elements of ITSM that are critical to IT empowerment, including:

• Self-service options
• Low–friction communication
• Reporting and dashboards
• A future-ready platform

• Learn about the operational challenges of dynamic databases
• Explore how next generation technology can enhance data management
• See how BMC can cut DB2 management costs while improving application availability

• Reducing peak MSUs
• Eliminating end-of-year true-up amounts
• Negotiating better MLC agreements

To get more from your IT budget, you need to get mainframe MLC costs under control - without sacrificing service delivery. This eBook presents tools and solutions to help you intelligently optimize when and where workloads run to improve efficiency and lower costs.

You'll learn how to:

• Make intelligent decisions about utilization with full visibility into business impact
• Recover underutilized capacity and reduce your rolling peaks
• Optimize where your subsystems run to eliminate excess DB2 and IMS instances
• Lower monthly license charges by up to 20 - 30 percent

Meet the demand for performance and availability with simpler mainframe monitoring.

Finding and resolving issues is critical to keep revenue-generating digital services running their best. In this paper, you’ll learn how to achieve a single, simpler view across your mainframe environment before performance and availability issues impact your business.

Read the white paper to:

• Improve the efficiency and productivity of mainframe staff
• Maintain performance despite growing complexity
• Shrink MTTR, reduce system outages and lower TCO

• Understand why past cost reductions failed to deliver expected savings
• Learn how to identify projects with the best chance of success
• Discover how to save significantly on MLC costs
• See how to avoid unnecessary changes to applications