A Powerful Network Metering and Rating Platform
Evident Enterprise is a network usage metering and rating platform that leverages existing instrumentation such as Cisco NetFlow and NetScout nGenius to collect, aggregate and correlate usage data into the unique context of the Evident Information Model – usage by user/organization, location, and application or server. The multi-tier metering and collection platform can be flexibly configured and geographically located to scale the Evident Enterprise solution across global enterprises.Evident Enterprise usage data is (optionally) rated and stored in an enterprise scalable database for reporting and analysis by the Evident Inform reporting solution. While other management and reporting systems can report on usage by application or location, Evident Enterprise is unique because it provides usage and cost correlated to users and organizations.
Features & Benefits
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Rich Information Model
Business-oriented model of IT infrastructure usage and cost. |
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Provides granular visibility into network usage and cost in a business context. |
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Enterprise Database
Detailed network usage and cost data by business organization and location, down to the individual user and IT resource with long-term data retention. |
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Supports historical trending and demand profiling initiatives with fine granularity and extensive historical data. |
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Scalable and Reliable Collection
Distributed network metering efficiently collects usage data across the shared network infrastructure, leveraging existing instrumentation (such as Cisco NetFlow and/or RMON2 probes) and provides fail-over architecture and duplicate elimination. |
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Reliably and accurately meters and rates global network usage of the enterprise environment, with minimal impact on the shared infrastructure regardless of the number of measuring points. |
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Flexible Rating and Pricing
Various models can be applied for simple or complex cost allocation including custom rates, tiered rates, reverse and split billing, complete cost-recovery or usage-based chargeback. |
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Highly configurable, accurate cost modeling for usage-based service pricing. |
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Asset/Address Management Integration
Integration with DHCP servers and host management systems, such as Microsoft DHCP, Lucent QIP, Microsoft Active Directly, LDAP and others. |
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Enables automatic and accurate asset auditing and usage and cost analysis, by organization or user. |
Solutions Overview
Evident Software provides solutions that help enterprise IT managers identify and eliminate inefficiencies in their infrastructures, bring supply and demand of IT resources into equilibrium, and price services based on actual usage. These solutions are delivered as a set of different Evident Inform reporting modules that address the following:
- Asset Auditing - traditional asset management solutions leave 'gaps' that can reduce their accuracy and usefulness. Evident Enterprise’s usage-based asset discovery and validation process helps enterprise IT organizations close the 'gaps' in existing inventories, ensuring compliance with IT governance policies and providing critical visibility for more effective consolidation efforts.
- Demand Profiling - in order to remove inefficiencies in the IT infrastructure and optimize applications, enterprise IT managers need visibility into how, when, where and by whom their infrastructure is being used. Evident Software provides the tools to profile demand and usage by providing transparency into which servers and applications are being used, and what users, organizations or locations are driving the demand.
- Service Pricing - managing IT like a business means balancing supply and demand, controlling costs and pricing services effectively. Service Pricing is Evident Software's solution for pricing services based on actual usage and costs and it allows IT staffs to more accurately budget, allocate and recover costs, communicate the value of their infrastructure, and align with the rest of the organization.
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