Software asset management, it service management, it financial management and software vulnerability management solutions and. Bdnas competitors, revenue, number of employees, funding. Ps soft has long been overly reliant on sms integration, hopefully this merger will allow them to diversify outside the microsoft market and both companies to grow their worldwide presence. Cloud asset insights directly integrates with amazon ec2 systems manager to inventory and normalize software assets for amazon ec2. So hey, we are talking about asset management of large, complex software infrastructures and the. Software management whilst working with migrationstudio, i came across a cool product called bdna technopedia. Flexera announces acquisition of bdna flexera software. Flexera to acquire bdna, reimagining how data powers the software supply chain flexera has an exciting vision for how the power of it asset data can be unlocked in the enterprise. A bdna senior consultant lead the most significant single reform of financial management ever undertaken across all government departments and provincial government in papua new guinea. Flexera are known for their product use rights libraries while bdna add a wealth of information around hardware, including internet of things iot devices such as medical equipment. Learn why our flexnet manager suite for enterprises performed the best in sam functionality use cases in gartners critical capabilities for software asset management tools report. The cheqroom tool management software helps companies manage and track their equipment inventory. Flexera to acquire bdna, reimagining how data powers the software supply chain 9. The culture of the field team i worked for was excellent.
The product vision and leadership of the cto was one of the 3 key reasons i joined bdna. Asset management it supervisor of operations in the energy and utilities industry. Even if an organization has invested in a software asset management sam, open source or security application not developed by flexera. Bdna, column technologies and information management resources. Flexera to acquire bdna, reimagining how data powers the. Even if an organization has invested in a software asset management sam, open source or security application not developed by flexera our software and hardware asset data will dramatically increase the roi that organization will get from their investment. What struck me right away when going to their website is the scrolling list of products which are nearing end of life eol. Flexera has been named a leader in the 2019 gartner magic quadrant for software asset management tools. The company offers an online content repository of commercially available hardware and software with market data points describing about products such as support level, endoflife, windows compatibility, security vulnerabilities and procurement information driving to an effective business decisions. September, 2017 flexera, the company thats reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured, announced that on september 7, it signed an agreement to acquire mountain view, cabased bdna. Bdnas consultant delivered improvements within the asset management section of the organisation, focusing on remote condition monitoring, business process improvements and laser cad mapping. In june 2012, bdna announced the release of the community edition of technopedia.
Three companies have protested a navy request for proposals for servicewide information technology asset management software. Bdna shines light on winning, losing it asset management. Acquisition will create the worlds largest technology asset data platform, transforming how software is bought, sold, managed and secured. As a result organizations lack visibility into their environment, waste money from suboptimal asset usage, risk being out of compliance, and. Bdna to launch cloud asset insights to optimize cloud management for amazon ec2 deployments. Bdna and juriba partner to deliver marketleading bestin.
Were incredibly proud to have received this recognition for the second year in a row. Together with bdna weve built the largest and most comprehensive repository of market intelligence on technology. Bdna takes a feed of purchase information, installation information, subscriptions and usage and normalizes data into a. Juriba and bdna partner to deliver marketleading bestin. Bdna merges with ps soft bdna site bdna ps soft site ps soft. Nextgeneration it asset management transform it with datadriven itam 6 how bdna can help bdna enables nextgeneration it asset management by providing a data platform as the foundation for unified it.
Business dna bdna data platform is a software solution that analyzes raw information technology it data for data quality issues, such as terminology variations, conflicts and duplicates, and organizes the data into a more consistent state. Bdna software products are innovative, unique, well engineered and deliver high quality to their customers. Flexeras data intelligence library, technopedia, is the worlds largest and most trusted source of it asset data in the world. About bdna bdna transforms enterprise asset data by enriching it with market context to vastly simplify integrations, accelerate business transformation and improve decisionmaking. Choose business it software and services with confidence. Software asset management bdna solutions flexera blog. Bdna develops a cloudbased enterprise technology data to track, analyze and manage hardware and software asset information for processes and projects. Bdnaus based, inventory meets ps soft european, asset management. Flexera is reimagining the way software is bought, sold, managed and secured.
Bdna transforms enterprise asset data by enriching it with market context to vastly simplify integrations, accelerate business transformation and improve decisionmaking. And while 85 percent of those bdna respondents said they had an it asset management itam practice in their organization, the challenge was that only 17 percent have itam tools in place to actually manage compliance. Flexera to acquire bdna, reimagining how data powers the software supply chainacquisition will create the worlds largest technology asset data platform, transforming how software is bought. Iaitam, the principle resource for comprehensive it asset management best practices worldwide, has itam white papers from our provider members available as a resource to all those in the industry. Flexera is positioned highest for ability to execute in the leaders quadrant.
Software suppliers and internet of things iot companies contribute asset data about their products directly to flexeras data cloud deepening its depth and breadth. We both solve the most complicated software and hardware management challenges organizations face. Leveraging technopedia, the most trusted and comprehensive hardware and software asset information source, bdna leverages automation. Buy a flexera bdna normalize dvc term or other asset management software at. Bdna takes a feed of purchase information, installation information, subscriptions and usage and normalizes data into a consistent language. Flexera buys bdna for bigger tech asset data play arn. Level of effort to manually normalize the data is cost prohibitive, but by the same token mainstream tools that offer this capability can be too expensive for midsize to smaller companies, espectiallly considering other tools to complete the itamcmdb process. Bdna and juriba partner to deliver marketleading bestinclass it project management software for windows 10 migration. Walker white, formerly president of bdna and now vice president for data platform for flexera, says the software asset management tools developed by bdna will be used to inform the enterprise license management software that flexera makes available to it organizations. Different inventory and asset management tools may report conflicting or duplicate data, for many reasons. Software asset management sam is key to helping any organization avoid costly trueups from software audits. Flexera sees bdna acquisition driving app rationalization.
Bdna normalize brings a very rick catalog and helps keep your assetci database current with cleaned data. London underground utilised the maximo product for all rolling stock, track, vehicle, facility and internal furnishing management. Bdna to launch cloud asset insights to optimize cloud. Even if an organization has invested in a software asset. Flexera, the company thats reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured, announced that on september 7, it signed an agreement to acquire mountain view, cabased bdna. Three vendors protest navy rfp for it asset management fcw. A highly successful outcome was achieved including the delivery of new accounting and budgeting software, complete business process reengineering, data centre. Flexera has just announced that on september 7, we signed an agreement to acquire mountain view, cabased bdna.
Gartner names flexera a software asset management leader. Bdna offers a reference catalogue of software and hardware information to help it asset managers make better decisions. Flexera has inked an agreement to acquire technology asset data company, bdna, for an undisclosed sum. It asset management is too often a fragmented hodgepodge of tools, stakeholders and processes especially when it includes, as it should, the many crossdomain hardware and software. This data, in turn, powers flexeras own marketleading sam, software vulnerability management and software composition analysis solutions. Bdnas headquarters is located in mountain view, california, usa 94043. The solution consolidates, deduplicates, filters and normalizes it asset data across data sources, then enriches it with market intelligence. Announcing the availability of the largest and most comprehensive repository of technology asset data on the planet. Drawing on a constantly updated and curated content repository, technopedia includes more than 3. Bdnas technopedia is an extensive, curated data set consisting of hardware and software vendors, their products, release versions, a categorization taxonomy, and availabilityend of lifeobsolete indicators. Itam includes both hardware and software asset management. Flexera and bdna understand better than anyone else the key role technology asset intelligence plays in executive decisionsupport, said ryan.
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