October 7, 2005 Today Westbury (Company
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An up-to-date CMDB, from fiction to reality!
The Inventory Lifecycle Management solution ensures that organizations have access to an accurate, complete and up-to-date HP OpenView Service Desk CMDB. Time required for initial population and maintenance of the Service Desk CMDB can drastically be reduced while increasing ROI and reducing TCO at the same time!
Inventory Lifecycle Management enables virtually unlimited out-of-the-box capabilities to collect data from multiple data sources like Radia, NNM, OVOW, CMDB of any HP OpenView Service Desk system, SMS, Altiris, as well as data retrieved from the Barcode Manager module and from spreadsheets.
This solution will unify, categorize and combine the gathered data, compares it against data in the CMDB and selectively or automatically updates attributes of and relationships between CI’s in the CMDB of HP OpenView Service Desk.
“ICM is the main component of the Inventory Lifecycle Management solution”, says Joost Ale, CEO of Scope4mation. “It’s functionalities make it very easy to take data from many different sources, like for example from any automated inventory system and/or barcode scanners and even from spreadsheets, compare it and consolidate it with the HP OpenView CMDB in a controlled way. This takes away a lot of time consuming manual work and drastically increases the quality of the CMDB”.
“By combining the unique functionalities of Barcode Manager and ICM we are now able to deliver true inventory lifecycle management”, says Floris Verschoor, CEO of Westbury USA.
“We see many companies struggle to keep the CMDB up to date, consuming a lot of time and resources but still quality of data cannot be guaranteed. With Inventory Lifecycle Management we offer a real solution to this problem”.
About Westbury
Founded in 1998 as a spin-off of the orginal HP OpenView Service Desk team, Westbury has developed a core competency in developing extended products and services for the HP OpenView Service Desk environment. The company offers a complete range of solutions and services with the purpose of helping IT organizations with the implementation of world class best practises for Service Management using the HP OpenView platform. For more information: www.westbury-it.com – info@westbury-it.com
About Scope4mation
The mission of scope4mation is to boost the speed and efficiency of the implementation and the maintainability of HP OpenView based IT management systems by development and delivery of seamless integrations between the different hp OpenView management building-blocks as well as between hp OpenView and third party management systems. For more information: www.scope4mation.com - info@scope4mation.com
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