Borland® Tempo® delivers IT asset management features that continually ensure the sound foundation of IT technology investment portfolios. The system includes flexible asset lifecycle management capabilities and process management to facilitate the transition of project deliverables into operations and sophisticated impact analyses that display relationships between different assets. Borland Tempo Asset Management helps organizations:

• Ensure that asset managers are able to properly assess project deliverables
• Ensure that different components that comprise critical business systems are understood by IT leaders
• Ensure that impact changes on the infrastructure are well anticipated

Borland Tempo, as a part of its Asset Management capabilities, supports Impact Analyses, Lifecycle Management and Change Management Processes.

Impact Analyses

The system provides a blueprint of the IT infrastructure, by managing existing software assets in the same context as the project portfolio. Thus the impact of changes can be easily assessed, through easy understanding of relationships that exist between different business system components. The capability is delivered in the form of a powerful visual tool, which enables users to choose the component of interest and an accompanying map, which shows all the interconnections.The system provides a blueprint of the IT infrastructure, by managing existing software assets in the same context as the project portfolio. Thus the impact of changes can be easily assessed, through easy understanding of relationships that exist between different business system components. The capability is delivered in the form of a powerful visual tool, which enables users to choose the component of interest and an accompanying map, which shows all the interconnections.

Lifecycle Management

The system provides a central repository for tracking and reporting on infrastructure com

• Business applications
• Middleware components
• Servers
• Storage devices
• Network devices

Information about the performance and age of the asset, utilized and available capacity, asset tags, serial numbers, manufacturer and other desired information can be maintained. Reports are automatically generated on costs, utilization, location and other criteria. Summary reports specifying the overall capacity and cost of the infrastructure portfolios are automatically generated to support planning. Project managers can easily identify components with capacities that they require and infrastructure planners can pinpoint impending bottlenecks arising from future business system plans.

Change Management

Demand and Portfolio Management capabilities of Borland Tempo can be used to evaluate and prioritize asset purchases. These capabilities, used in conjunction with impact analyses features, allow the desired changes to be implemented in a manner that minimizes impact to service levels.

Key Benefits

• Successfully implement transitions of project deliverables into production
• Maintain a living blueprint of the interconnections between infrastructure components