IT Documentation Software

Professional IT documentation gives organizations a complete overview of the entire IT, data center and network infrastructure – from physical assets, virtual components and applications to business services. This ensures more efficient processes and provides a solid basis for greater IT security and sustainability.

IT infrastructures are becoming increasingly extensive, complex, and difficult to manage. This requires a centralized view of the often hybrid IT infrastructure in order to stay in control and ensure efficient management. FNT's professional IT documentation software provides organizations with just such a central tool for documenting, planning, and managing the entire IT infrastructure. 

Advantages of FNT’s IT Documentation Software

Better and faster decisions

Enjoy a complete and continually updated overview of your entire IT infrastructure and the relationships between the individual configuration items (CIs) – via one central tool. The clear overview helps to make better knowledge-based decisions.

Shorter outages

Powerful visualizations of each individual component and its relationships support root cause analysis so you can react in a more targeted manner when faults occur and minimize business interruptions.

More efficient management and higher customer satisfaction

Modern management functionalities support you in managing your infrastructure more efficiently regardless of how complex it is. The optimized IT infrastructure performance also makes your customers happier.

Less maintenance effort

Drastically reduce the work involved in maintaining your IT documentation. Interfaces provide an almost unlimited range of options for integration with surrounding systems and the ability to automate data import into your documentation.

Greater IT sustainability

Better utilize and extend the life of existing resources with improved transparency into the IT infrastructure.

More efficient audits and certification processes

Comprehensive documentation of your IT infrastructure provides you with maximum transparency for successful certification to current industry standards, making unpleasant surprises during audits and certification tests a thing of the past. Recertification is also a breeze because no time-consuming preparation upfront is needed.

Better basis for IT security

Having a complete overview of all critical components of your IT infrastructure gives you a solid basis for increased IT security.

Highlights of FNT’s IT Documentation Software

Our professional solution for IT documentation allows you to create a detailed overview of the entire IT, DC, and network infrastructure – from physical assets, virtual components, and applications to business services. The solution not only encompasses the various and diverse components, it also provides a visual depiction of them to enable in-depth and comprehensive insight into the infrastructure. 

The basis for this is a modern version of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), which uses open standard interfaces to automatically consolidate content from distributed databases, displays cross-silo dependencies and merges them into a single point of truth. This gives you a digital twin (a digital image) of the entire IT infrastructure in a single system: up to the minute, vendor-independent, and without excessive updating effort thanks to its extensive interfaces for bidirectional data exchange with other tools. 

The IT documentation solution additionally contains many modern management functions, from analysis and visualization to planning and process management. These all help to manage highly complex IT infrastructures, rectify faults faster, and manage transformations and changes more efficiently. 

 

Simple infrastructure capture

Contains an integrated and continuously updated component library with more than 75,000 predefined devices from many different vendors, all in photo-realistic representation. This includes all necessary technical data needed to manage and plan the IT landscape.

Change planning and process management

A comprehensive planning function facilitates recording and management of move, add, and change processes. Planned changes to the IT infrastructure can be efficiently controlled via integrated process and order management and directly transferred to service providers for commissioning. You can track the progress of any changes and see the updated as-is status in the software right after execution.

Visualization and analysis of data

Simple visualization of IT infrastructure data and dependencies using FNT GraphicCenter, FNT Analytics, or FNT GeoMaps allows completely new insights.

License and contract management

All software products, software installations, applications, and instances, together with the associated licenses, relationships, service contracts, and other information, can be planned, documented, and managed in a central system.

Server and cloud infrastructure management

Planning and documentation of modern server environments, including physical and virtual servers. Cloud infrastructure elements can also be recorded.

Physical and logical network structures

Representation and management of physical and logical network structures along the entire life cycle from implementation to end of life, including IPv4 and IPv6 address management, VLAN and WLAN management.

End device management

Holistically plan, implement, and operate infrastructures for the workplace with modern asset and configuration management.

Depiction of FNT solution for efficient IT infrastructure management on different devices.
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Easily capture and clearly display IT infrastructure

With FNT's IT documentation, you can easily record, clearly display and efficiently manage the IT and network infrastructure. The digital representation of all IT assets and the network provided by the FNT Command Platform gives you a complete overview of the entire IT infrastructure. 

FAQ: IT Documentation

What is documentation in information technology?

Sound business decisions and investment planning require knowledge about how your IT infrastructure and network environment are structured. IT documentation provides this insight by helping maintain a comprehensive overview of increasingly complex IT infrastructure, data center infrastructure and network infrastructure.  

Not only the single infrastructure components are recorded, but also all dependencies between the components. If, for example, a software application is critical to a specific business process, then so are all the cables, servers, network nodes, and databases that the application uses. Relationship knowledge is the core reason why you really need documentation. 

What is the difference between professional IT documentation and simple documentation?

Simple tools such as Excel or proprietary hardware vendor-provided tools and other monitoring tools can usually only map parts of the infrastructure. In addition, they usually have to be updated manually, which in many cases means that existing documentation does not reflect the current status.  

Professional IT documentation tools, on the other hand, provide a complete overview of the infrastructure with all its relationships and dependencies – from physical, logical and virtual devices to networks and connections, applications and services. Extensive interface functionalities ensure that the documentation is always up to date. Professional IT documentation software is generally based on a modern version of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), which is automatically updated, consolidates the content of distributed databases, displays cross-silo dependencies, and serves as a single point of truth. 

Why is complete IT documentation important?

The aim of a professional IT documentation system is to provide all stakeholders, no matter which department they work in, with a holistic view of the company’s entire infrastructure. If this IT infrastructure information is spread across multiple systems or incomplete, a holistic overview is impossible. 

IT documentation simplifies everyday IT tasks and makes them faster, less risky, and more efficient. Good IT documentation allows you to achieve significantly greater transparency because dependencies are immediately apparent. Structural bottlenecks and risk points are easier to identify and eliminate. Documentation helps you to achieve key goals more quickly, like rectifying faults faster or working more efficiently with finite resources. Overall, you can ensure that your IT department performs well and runs smoothly and that critical business processes are properly supported – even in times of constant change. 

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