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People's United Bank on EMC Smarts

“Our highly complex, ever-changing IT environment has to support critical business initiatives and adapt to frequent changes without impacting the level of service it provides. EMC Smarts' ADM is the first product we’ve found that gives us an accurate picture of how our infrastructure components and business applications relate to and depend upon each other. Having this knowledge can dramatically improve our problem response time for current critical business systems while helping us design and implement a more efficient, adaptive application infrastructure. We believe that ADM will help us realize a significant cost savings.”

— Hari Makkala, CTO, People’s United Bank

Customer Profile - People’s United Bank is a diversified financial services company providing commercial, consumer, insurance, retail investment and trust services. Founded in 1842, it is the largest state-chartered bank in Connecticut with assets of $11 billion, 155 branches and more than 240 ATMs. People’s is a leader in consumer and commercial banking, residential lending, insurance sales and supermarket banking. People’s subsidiaries offer brokerage services, asset management, equipment financing and leasing, and insurance services.

Vendor Profile - EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM) is the recognized leader in application discovery and mapping. Using its award-winning real-time dependency mapping technology, ADM automatically uncovers and maps the complex relationships between applications and technology infrastructure to provide the visibility IT organizations need to accelerate critical IT initiatives. ADM is the only dependency mapping solution that combines passive and active discovery approaches to provide an end-to-end, “living” model of the IT environment that continuously tracks resource dependencies, demand, usage and service levels. ADM customers are tracking and managing more than half a million systems, two million services, 5 million CMDB configuration items (CIs), and 14 million dependencies worldwide for a wide range of critical IT service and cost management initiatives, including change and configuration management, ITIL/CMDB development, business service management (BSM), data center automation (DCA), and capacity planning.

Boise State University on EMC Smarts

“We are subject to several audits, covering a range of different parameters. At the end of the day, we are accountable for the security and compliance of all of the various systems and applications that we support. Basically, solution [from EMC Smarts] ‘turns on’ and dynamically creates an application dependency diagram that gives the visibility we need to prepare for audits and ensure that all of the applications are compliant — even those that are managed by outside vendors. It’s pretty slick.”

— David O’Neill, Executive Director, Office of Information Technology, Boise State University

Customer Profile - Boise State University is a state university located near downtown Boise, the capital of the State of Idaho. Boise State was originally founded in 1932 as Boise Junior College. In 1965 it gained four-year status with creation of baccalaureate degrees and in 1969 joined the state system of higher education and was named Boise State College. In 1974 Boise State College gained university status and became Boise State University. BSU offers 201 degrees in 190 fields of study - from doctoral programs to technical certificates. With nearly 18,900 students, Boise State University is the largest institution of higher learning in Idaho.

Vendor Profile - EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM) is the recognized leader in application discovery and mapping. Using its award-winning real-time dependency mapping technology, ADM automatically uncovers and maps the complex relationships between applications and technology infrastructure to provide the visibility IT organizations need to accelerate critical IT initiatives. ADM is the only dependency mapping solution that combines passive and active discovery approaches to provide an end-to-end, “living” model of the IT environment that continuously tracks resource dependencies, demand, usage and service levels. ADM customers are tracking and managing more than half a million systems, two million services, 5 million CMDB configuration items (CIs), and 14 million dependencies worldwide for a wide range of critical IT service and cost management initiatives, including change and configuration management, ITIL/CMDB development, business service management (BSM), data center automation (DCA), and capacity planning.

Boise State Streamlines Compliance Audits with EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager

EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM) provides immediate value for any organization looking to improve IT service and optimize operational efficiency through consolidation, change management, software asset management and other similar process automation initiatives.

The ability to quickly get to the “who, what, where, when” of an IT environment by tracking all of the relationships between applications and infrastructure components in order to maximize resources and minimize vulnerabilities is the cornerstone for effective IT operations.

Specifically, EMC Smarts ADM solution provides the Office of Information Technology (OIT) of the Boise State University with the following benefits:

• Reduction in the amount of high-level staff time required to prepare for audits
• Visibility into how the University’s IT resources are actually being used
• Improved confidence in meeting compliance requirements