Solution Overview

Asset Intelligence & Analytics

CloudFabrix's Asset Intelligence & Analytics (cfxAIA) provides critical insights into your organization's IT assets, asset lifecycles, utilization and IT spend. cfxAIA enables customers to manage security, manage risks while driving profitability through pro-active IT Budget planning.

cfxAIA leverages integrations with over 100 data sources to deliver critical insights across asset lifecycle, utilization, and spend using easy-to-understand dashboards without creating a huge management workload. cfxAIA built-in workflows for Customer Success Management and adoption management enables better operational scheduling and improved business outcomes.

Key Benefits:

  • Agentless discovery of assets and automatic data ingestion

  • Dynamic Asset Mapping

  • Asset Lifecycle Insights

  • Complete visibility into Asset Portfolio

  • Provide better IT asset utilization

  • Strategize and Plan IT modernization & technology refresh projects

  • Adopt a subscription-based consumption model and reduce unnecessary subscription costs.

  • Significant Cost savings after renewal optimization.

  • Mitigate End-Of-Life, End-Of-Support risks

How Does It Work?

CloudFabrix Asset Intelligence & Analytics

Data is ingested from various devices/services/applications or by asset discovery. Then ML algorithms are applied to provide actionable insights and automated actions. Some examples are as given below.

Actionable Insights

  • License/Contract consolidation opportunities

  • Identification of assets under contract risk

  • What-if analysis and scenarios

  • Budget planning and forecast

  • Prioritize vulnerabilities and risks

  • Pinpoint compliance risks

  • Insights on cost saving opportunities

  • Insights for technology transformation

  • Inputs to the planning team

Automated Actions

  • Generate project plan and schedule

  • Compute depreciation schedules

  • Automate patching and updates

  • Automated notifications and alerts

  • Automate procurement workflows

  • Automate provisioning/deprovisioning

  • Automate config backup/restore

  • Automated scheduled reports

Data Sources -

Asset information can exists in a CMDB, active directory, a database, an application or simply in a file. CloudFabrix provides 100+ data ingestion connectors. Some of the examples of data sources are as follows:

Asset Data:

  1. In-built deep asset discovery

  2. 3rd party sources like CMDB, Active Directory

LifeCycle Data:

  1. OEM customer support systems - SNTC etc.

  2. Customer ERP systems – SAP

  3. Contract data

  4. Support for HW & SW assets

  5. Subscription services

Other Sources:

  1. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)

  2. Vendor specific alerts/notifications

  3. Vendor and proprietary dictionaries

  4. ERP / Purchase data

  5. More...

Enterprise Discovery -

CloudFabrix provides cfxEdgeCollector, which is a discovery tool to collect the inventory data of IT assets.

Access / Protocols For Discovery & Data Ingestion

  • HTTP/S

  • SNMP

  • WinRM

  • SSH

  • APIs

  • NetFlow

  • etc.

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