The increasing number of devices, their dense networking, and exponential data growth are making it ever more difficult to manage IT systems efficiently and securely. This is why a solution for better planning, control and management of the IT infrastructure is needed. FNT's IT infrastructure management software delivers such a tool.
Highlights of FNT’s IT Infrastructure Management Software
FNT‘s solution for IT infrastructure management provides you with a single point of truth of your entire IT infrastructure – from physical assets to virtual components and applications through to business services. A wide range of interfaces gather data from all relevant IT systems and display it in one place. This allows you to document, analyze, plan, control and automate your infrastructure with just a single tool.
The consistent and integrated data model, the central data storage, and the extensive component library with over 75,000 devices of all manufacturers enable you to quickly record the entire IT infrastructure in comprehensive IT documentation.
Numerous modern management functionalities make it easier to manage the infrastructure – no matter how complex or hybrid it is. These functions range from analysis and visualization to planning and process management, including workflows and work order management. This enables you to achieve more efficient IT processes, reduce costs and create a more solid basis for IT automation.
Advantages of FNT’s IT Infrastructure Management Software
Get a comprehensive overview of all areas of your IT infrastructure. This allows you to recognize trends and critical changes more quickly and make better, knowledge-based and strategic decisions at all times.
Increase your customers' satisfaction through better IT infrastructure performance, faster provisioning, reliable and rapid implementation of service-related changes and shorter downtimes thanks to accelerated repair processes.
Documentation of all IT components in a unified data model. The deep insight into the different layers of the infrastructure makes relationships between elements visible. This speeds up fault resolution.
End-to-end process management increases the efficiency of your IT processes. Added to this are process and work order control, an extensive component library and powerful planning functionalities.
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.
A complete, fully integrated solution that eliminates the need for partial solutions. Benefit from better documentation quality, process optimization and a more solid basis for IT automation at a lower total cost of operation, with fewer staff, in less time.
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FAQ: IT Infrastructure Management
IT infrastructure management is the planning, control and monitoring of an organization's IT infrastructure. The IT infrastructure comprises all hardware, software, network and telecommunications systems that are required for the operation and support of business processes. IT infrastructure management aims to ensure the availability, performance, security and efficiency of IT resources, reduce costs and minimize risks.
While an IT infrastructure management tool helps companies across all sectors as well as public authorities to organize their IT infrastructure more efficiently, industries such as the public sector, automotive/manufacturing, airports, utilities, telecommunication providers and data center operators in particular benefit from the right IT infrastructure management solution. Such a solution provides a better overview of the IT infrastructure, which enables organizations to identify important trends or risks more quickly and make better decisions. Downtimes are also reduced due to accelerated maintenance processes, changes can be carried out more quickly and services can be provided faster. IT processes become more efficient and companies benefit from lower total operating costs with fewer staff.
The more complex and critical infrastructures are, the greater the impact of these advantages of an IT infrastructure management solution, i.e. the higher the expected return on investment.
With a software solution for efficient IT infrastructure management, you can save your employees considerable administrative effort on maintaining a range of systems. This is because all relevant information on IT infrastructure elements is stored in one single tool and partial solutions, which often lack integration, are no longer necessary.
You will also be creating the basis for strategic evolution of your IT infrastructures. Having a complete overview of an IT environment and the underlying infrastructure makes it possible to identify redundancies more quickly, cut back uncontrolled growth of systems, and introduce uniform standards. A well-thought-out IT architecture, based on as few tools and applications as possible, facilitates the creation of high-performance interfaces and thus the introduction of automated processes and procedures. This further reduces the administrative effort required and saves costs.
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Best Practices for Implementation
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Worst Practices from the real world of IT Infrastructure Management
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How to take IT infrastructure into the hybrid future
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The Holistic Network Management Solution
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Case Studies and Best Practices
Full transparency into IT infrastructure is the starting point for ongoing and successful transformation. Automotive manufacturers and industrial companies need a stable foundation to address current market challenges around change, realignment, and consolidation. In terms of IT, this means that documentation of requirements, IT assets, and their dependencies must be standardized, with the process being largely automated and seamlessly integrated into the IT value chain. In this white paper, we present concrete use cases to show what a future-proof solution for documentation and management of IT assets in manufacturing industry can achieve across the entire lifecycle.
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