| Business challenge | Product features | Business benefits |
|---|---|---|
| • Need to reduce IT maintenance costs caused by stakeholders not being able to find assets |
• Automated cataloging of assets • Powerful search capabilities • Notification when new assets are introduced |
• Reduced time to create, maintain and find assets • Reduced cost implications from search failures • Savings from reduced asset duplication |
| • Duplication of assets results in higher development and operations training costs required to maintain complex systems |
• Powerful search, review, and policy enforcement • Custom categorizations and states to communicate sunset or non-strategic assets • Audit reporting to understand asset utilization |
• Reduced development, maintenance and operations costs by project and across lines business • Reduced operations and maintenance costs by reducing solution complexity |
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• Business is overwhelmed with compliance mandates and lack policy enforcement resulting in unmanaged risks • Manual reviews are costly • Source of costs: – Unapproved open source or GPL – Manual or ad hoc reviews |
• Automated review boards & policy enforcement • Out of the box policies |
• Elimination of non-reviewed & non-compliant assets • Reduced number of review processes, associated people, and time required • Elimination of costs from past risk and policy failures |
| • Difficult to identify assets and resources that are driving business value, resulting in improper resource allocation | • Business intelligence reports |
• Resources are allocated appropriately to drive business value • Ability to practice product and portfolio management with finer granularity |
| • Uncontrolled changes without buy-in from business and technical stakeholders |
• Business intelligence reports • Impact analysis • Notification of asset changes |
• Reduced development and maintenance costs stemming from smaller number of changes that must be reversed of fixed |
| • Underperforming value potential from globally distributed development | • Asset collaboration and governance, reporting, and notification enables intelligent globally distributed development | • Improved development productivity and visibility across the globally distributed enterprise |
| • Various number of types of staff spanning across geographies makes product license management unwieldy |
• NEW: Server-based and floating licensing model • NEW: Distinct collaborator and publisher client access license types |
• Scales well for large, geographically distributed organizations • Flexibility to purchase and deploy the right type of license based on user role and intended usage |
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