Yphise has awarded BMC Atrium CMDB

Yphise has awarded BMC Atrium CMDB its prestigious Yphise AWARD following a comprehensive assessment of competiting products by ISO 9001-certified methodology.

Paris, February 12, 2007 - The independent analyst in software assessment, Yphise, announces a new Software Product Assessment report for CMDB Management.

Configuration Management Database (CMDB) solutions help manage and monitor the critical CIs (configuration items) that contribute to business service delivery. The CMDB is a key concept of ITIL. The CMDB provides a structured data model in order to manage the various categories of CIs (such as business processes, business services, applications, infrastructure components) and the various relationships between these CIs. The CMDB manages all the data related to CIs in the information system in order to support operations (including incidents, problems, changes and service levels). CMDB solutions contribute to understanding the dependencies between CIs, thanks to impact analysis functions. CMDB solutions help define and control the changes required to improve the information system.

There are mainly two benefits : Optimizing the quality of service delivered to the business and Optimizing the business value of the information system. "Our research concludes that CMDB Management is essential in order to improve the quality of service delivered to the business. IT changes or incidents affect the quality of service delivered to the business. The CMDB helps in understanding the impact of changes and incidents on the business and in setting the priorities. It reduces the service interruption duration thanks to a better understanding of impact and scope. It makes it possible to set business-focused priorities. CMDB management is also a key contribution to IT governance. It helps understand how the information system contributes to the business. It provides an understanding of the relationships between infrastructure components, applications and business services. CMDB management improves and facilitates decision making. It helps optimize the changes required to maximize business benefits. The detailed assessment of the products shortlisted by Yphise states that this market segment represents a priority investment" says the report.

Yphise final shortlist for this market segment is as follows (alphabetical order): BMC Atrium CMDB (BMC), IBM CCMDB (IBM), HP UCMDB (HP / Mercury), Managed Objects (Managed Objects). The shortlist focuses on products and vendors that demonstrate commitment to providing effective solutions dedicated to CMDB. Each product shortlisted by Yphise contributes to the management of critical company configuration items (CIs). They provide a structured data model aimed at identifying the various CI types (such as business services, physical materials and software) and their relationships. They help retrieve the information from several sources and provide a unified view of the company CIs. They are appropriate for managing and controlling the analysis of the impact of a change or an incident on the related CIs.

Solutions have been assessed on the following dimensions :
1. Leveraging the knowledge of the IS configuration,
2. Improving the trust in configuration management,
3. Improving the IS change management,
4. Improving the incident diagnostics efficiency.
The assessment dimensions aggregate more than 200 functional or technical control items. This list of requirements is practical, in order to evaluate the capacity of the products to provide an adequate return on investment. It is also proactive in order to appreciate the upcoming perspectives.

As a result, Yphise attributes the Yphise AWARD to BMC Atrium CMDB edited by BMC assessing it as the best ranked one according to the Yphise reference List of Requirements in comparison with the competition.

" BMC Atrium CMDB stands out in all four assessment dimensions. It provides the best coverage of our list of requirements. This highlights its maturity and suitability for investing in this market segment. The solution covers all essential needs of configuration management. It provides a structured and comprehensive data model. It supports powerful functions for data federation and reconciliation. It demonstrates strengths for impact analysis of the various processes supported by the CMDB. It helps efficiently manage the changes and incidents related to CIs. In particular, the product provides advanced functions for comparing and managing the CIs according to status or environments (e.g. intended, discovered, test). It efficiently manages the business services and their relationships with IT components. BMC Atrium CMDB is also user-friendly and is easy to customize according to user needs », says Yphise Analyst Laetitia Bardoul from Yphise Paris labs.

The Yphise AWARD is the unchallenged distinction for software products. The Yphise AWARD is given to the best software after an in-depth assessment of the leading competitors. The assessment is based on the Yphise detailed list of requirements designed to meet the needs of large companies. This list of requirements includes more than 200 technical or functional assessment items. The Yphise AWARD is the only distinction based on an ISO 9001:2000-certified comparative assessment of the software products. ISO 9001:2000 is the worldwide quality standard. It guarantees independence and focus on the key issues for large companies.

The CMDB market segment has been selected under the Yphise independent research program which identifies the software products that represent a valuable investment for large companies.

The Certificate is available at: http://www.yphise.com/award/BMC/AtriumCMDB/certificate.pdf

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About Yphise Software Assessment.

The released results are designed to cover the needs of IT Executives and Managers, from the planning of investment priorities to the selection of products, including the negotiating with service providers of products to use in their solutions. Yphise Software Assessment includes three volumes:

- The list of useful requirements. Yphise produces on each market segment the useful list of requirements in order to accurately score the software products according to expected benefits by large companies. This list of requirements is practical, in order to evaluate the capacity of the products to provide an adequate return on investment. It is also proactive, in order to appreciate the upcoming perspectives (REQUIREMENTS volume).

- The detailed assessment of the shortlisted products. The Yphise ISO 9001-certified assessment of each product provides accurate results. Each assessment includes hundreds of control criteria and allows rigorous scoring of products. The Detailed Assessment volume provides results in tables for quick access and accurate comparison between products. A Selection Assistant provides results in Excel format in order to customize all the data and weights according to your specific opinions and needs (DETAILED ASSESSMENT volume).

- The Executive volume is designed to appreciate the investment priorities for the large companies, to identify the shortlist of products, or to evaluate the solutions from service providers that include software products. The Executive volume is produced after in-depth analysis of the evaluated market segment. The ranking of the shortlisted products aggregates the results from the detailed assessment (EXECUTIVE volume). It includes:

- Market segment
- Benefits for the business
- Benefits for the IT processes
- Positioning of the market segment
- The shortlist for the evaluated market segment
- Market trends
- Yphise ranking
- Assessment overview


About Yphise.

Yphise identifies and certifies the software products that allow large companies to increase the value of their information systems while optimizing the costs and managing the risks. Yphise covers all areas of interest in order to develop, operate, maintain and secure the applications to compete. Yphise has assessed 150 software products each year since 1985. Each assessment is ISO 9001:2000-certified in order to guarantee independence and to focus on key issues for large companies. Yphise distributes more than 8000 comparative assessment reports each year all over the world. Yphise has unparalleled experience in the recognition of winning strategies in software vendor claims. Thousands of investment decisions made by large companies have used Yphise independent research.

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