BMC IT Business Management Decision Foundation

BMC IT Business Management Decision Foundation provides a comprehensive inventory of IT information and the interrelationships within that inventory. Built on the BMC IT Business Management Decision Foundation and tightly integrated with it, the modules of the

enable the creation of relationships between elements of the modules and the elements of the Foundation. It contains the following basic elements:

• Services
• Clients
• Business processes
• Applications
• Assets
• IT staff
• Vendors

Validated by IT professionals, the elements provide a comprehensive knowledge base that integrates the fundamental data required to most effectively manage the IT function within any organization. The

tracks the interrelationships among elements of this data to reveal key business insights.

BMC IT Business Management Decision Foundation also includes functionality to enables IT organizations to structure, manage, and maintain the processes, risk, and control activities required to meet all governance and compliance objectives. It provides the tools to leverage industry-standard governance frameworks, such as COBIT and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), in conjunction with best-practices frameworks developed in house.
Combining the BMC IT Business Management Decision Foundation with the additional

modules provides a fundamental architecture for addressing any governance and compliance challenge. IT organizations can:

• Increase overall IT effectiveness
• Gain visibility and confidence regarding any governance or compliance initiative
• Manage and test internal controls for any compliance regulation, including Sarbanes-Oxley section 404
• Regularly attest to the maturity of IT processes
• Institute standard process frameworks, such as COBIT and ITIL, as well as in-house best-practices IT governance frameworks