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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