IT Efficiency for IT Buyers – more information

Features & Benefits

Inventory Analysis
 
Identify your least efficient servers using the performance/watt measure. Analyze efficiency by manufacturer. Understand your carbon footprint at both the datacenter and enterprise levels. Monitor changes over time. Perform deep-dive or summary analysis using IDEAS filtering tools. 

• The IT Efficiency module combines your own server asset data with IDEAS intelligence to evaluate the efficiency of your inventory. The tool enables you to better understand the efficiency of your server assets over time, and thus more effectively plan your future server strategy. 

Smart Import

Quickly import your server inventory to conduct your IT Efficiency analysis

• The effort to gather, cleanse, and enter asset data into an analysis tool can be painstaking. Smart Import automates this time-consuming process, offering productivity gains in the range of four to tenfold.

Inventory Maintenance

Manually edit, add, and delete server entries from your list. Update changes, such as location and commission and decommission data. Manage inventory location information for calculating CO2e emissions, cooling, and power outcomes.

• Once you have loaded your inventory, you can easily keep it up to date by applying any changes online.

Inventory Cleanse

Export the cleansed and normalized server asset list into a spreadsheet

• If you still need to have an inventory list external to IT Efficiency, use the module’s discovery and normalization features to cleanse your asset list and fill in any missing information.

 
List Management

Map IT Efficiency data to your optional list data  , such as location, commission/decommission, and server utilization information. Manage lists as one single entity or as subsets.

• Provides a high level of convenience by adapting to your data sets and procedures.

Server CAR Integration

Load your inventory into a Server CAR project.

• Quickly and easily move your entire inventory – or a subset of it – into Server CAR to plan consolidation alternatives.

Save and Share 

Save multiple inventory lists and consolidation projects.. Easily share lists and outcomes with colleagues.

• Save time by not having to reconstruct customized lists and analyses. Simply save away and recall via a few mouse clicks. Sharing functions allow you to communicate outcomes with colleagues and easily integrate them into internal tools and reports – making this an ideal collaborative tool for your company.

Easy Access

Receive full access for your team.

• Every member of your team can enjoy the IDEAS Advantage service when they need it, without hassle. There are no “per seat” restrictions or usage limitations.

Scope

A library of over 19,000 featured x86, RISC, and IA-64 server configurations to choose from, for systems dating as far back as 1995.

Featured Companies

• Dell
• Fujitsu
• HP
• IBM
• Oracle
• Sun