# Solution Overview

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?

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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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