Avanish Sahai, BDNA1

Vice President, Marketing
Mountain View - CA United States

The big idea: In 25 words or less, please tell us how this Fast 50 Nominee is helping to address the planet's problems.

BDNA is the first vendor to offer CIOs technology to effectively manage the business of IT by providing deep, valuable insight to a company’s infrastructure.

Please describe how this nominee is using business as a force of positive change. What technology, idea, or strategy is the nominee using -- and what problem, such as global warming, poverty, or pollution, does it address? (suggested length: 100 words)

Suddenly, the world of IT has been thrust into the spotlight because IT is as much about business as it is about technology. IT is finally considered a respected, essential resource that companies rely on to drive change and outperform the competition.

BDNA Insight provides the trusted knowledge and analytics essential for executives in the Office of the CIO to manage the business of IT with data-rich performance indicators. The on-demand FactBase with analytics for security, procurement, and operations delivers timely, complete, and accurate understanding about the company’s IT infrastructure. This insight is vital for the management of key IT imperatives and drives accountability.

BDNA Insight was designed to meet the needs of the CIO by providing IT organizations an unimpeachable, trusted system of record for all assets and layers of IT resource. BDNA is the only technology vendor who combines high speed, detailed verification of all software and product assets with corporate ownership information and a catalog of public market data. The result is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand reporting method that compromises data of the utmost relevance and accuracy.

Unlike any other asset tracking solution, BDNA Insight transforms companies’ efficacy in managing the imperatives that are central to their business:

• Procurement: BDNA Insight gives a comprehensive, enterprise-wide view and classification of deployed IT products and vendors. It enables companies to compare actual hardware and software installations versus purchases. BDNA Insight also identifies complex hardware and software relationships, such as database instances deployed on multi-core processors.
• Security: In just minutes, companies can identify unsupported operating systems and applications, and ensure that proper security applications (such as hard drive encryption software or corporate anit-virus software) are installed and active. With BDNA Insight companies can also determine which improper applications are installed and active, and move quickly to eliminate potential vulnerabilities.
• Risk Management: The FactBase BDNA Insight generates is comprehensive, accurate and audit-ready, addressing the complete lifecycle of IT assets. Companies can use the solution’s comprehensive reporting and analytic functions to zero in on non-compliant entities within the organization, such as specific locations or divisions, and continuously identify exceptions to regulatory, legal or internal compliance guidelines.

What are the results, both financial and social? How has the nominee's business performed, and what impact has it had on the problem it addresses? (suggested length: 100 words)

BDNA’s dedication helps customers get control of their technology investments and provide the trusted fact base and analytics essential for executives in the Office of the CIO to manage the business of IT. The solution has been successfully deployed at some of the world’s most complex and distributed organizations such as ENEL, KPN, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Telecom Italia and the U.S. Army.

With its unique rapid deployment and non-intrusive approach, BDNA provides insights within hours of being deployed, and lets customers arrive at business decisions with great confidence and much faster than they’ve ever been able to before – and in the process has helped them manage key business initiatives such as migrations and new application rollouts and identify areas of business risk that had been otherwise undetected. BDNA’s technology has also helped customers save millions of dollars. For example, a single customer in the manufacturing sector was able to save over $5M in the first year of using BDNA in software license renegotiations with two of the largest global vendors alone.

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