HOW TO MANAGE TECHNOLOGY OBSOLESCENCE LeanIX – BDNA Technopedia Integration
Jan 07, 2017
HOW TO MANAGE TECHNOLOGY OBSOLESCENCE
LeanIX – BDNA Technopedia Integration
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The Cost
How much money is wasted1 in enterprise IT? 25%
How much more expensive2 is bad data? 10x
How many initiatives fail3 due to bad data? 40%
1. Gartner Research, “Most Software is Wasted, Get Used to It”, Forbes, 10/17/20142. Dr. Thomas Redman, “Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset” 3. Gartner Research, “Measuring the Business Value of Data Quality”
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Characteristics of Poor Quality Data
Irrelevant Inconsistent Incomplete
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Incomplete: End of Life Data Example
Enterprise Architecture decisions need product lifecycle information
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EOL is not easily discoverable
Enterprise Architecture decisions need product lifecycle information
The dates and policies are either not published by the vendors at all or buried behind all the sales and marketing documents on their website
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Different EOL for different products from same vendor (may depend on acquisitions)
Definition and calculation of useful life varies from vendor to vendor
EOL is one of many milestones. It’s often difficult to know without knowing others
No standard policy. Most have a complicated policy that needs deciphering.
Exacerbated by Vendor Practices
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Drives the best business decisionsby delivering the industry’s
most authoritative Enterprise IT Data
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BDNA Solution set
Technopedia Normalize Content Packs
Enrich
De-dup
Clean
World’s largest asset catalog
o Most complete source of Enterprise IT Data
o Over 1,000,000 products and 50M+ market data points
o Over 1,000 updates per day
Cleans data using Technopedia
o Supports 40+ data sources
o De-dups, cleans, enriches
o Discovery & Procurement
Additional market intelligence
o Hardware specs
o Procurement
o Lifecycle dates
o CPE/CVE
o Compatibility
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Catalog: Unique Identity
Technopedia: Catalog and Content Packs
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• Category/Sub Category• Manufacturers/Vendors• Product Family• Product Name / Model• Product Version• Product Edition• Etc.
Security
Hardware Specifications
Lifecycle and Support
Open Source Compliance
Pricing
Virtualization Compatibility
Windows Compatibility
Procurement
Content Packs: Market Intelligence
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The Common Language for IT
IT Finance Mgmt / TBM (Cloud)
Enterprise Architecture /
IT Planning (on-prem)
Procurement (on-prem)
IT Service Mgmt / CMDB (Cloud)
IT Asset Mgmt / (on-prem)
LeanIX puts the Technopedia Catalog in context of the IT landscape
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“Most companies are much better at introducing newtechnology than retiring it. 67% of CIOs indicate theirtechnology risk management as ineffective” PWC Risk Review 2016
The Technology Risk Lifecycle
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The 6 top risks of running unsupported technology
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Inability to support business1
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Security vulnerabilities
Lower IT flexibility
Higher complexity
Lack of skills and support from vendors
Compliance issues
Send a simple message for decision makers
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Open interfaces of leanIX ensure a smooth and rapid integration
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