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The N(i)²® Suite offers capabilities beyond traditional IT management by offering tools to proactively model and asses changes. The N(i)² Suite Modeling Applications deliver a work environment in which customers can plan and design new infrastructures, evaluate alternate scenarios, assess the business and technological impacts of changes, as well as automate their deployment by generating workforce plans and bills of material based on actual inventory and tested configurations. N(i)² Design Modules include: Asset Design
Asset Design   The N(i)² Asset Design module provides advanced tools to efficiently manage IT assets according to preset business rules. It allows an organization greater precision when creating, cloning and managing assets while populating the CMDB quickly and more accurately. With advanced features for visualizing information, this software allows users to display resources in multiple contextual views and to quickly locate them on maps, floor plans or in a containership perspective. Most importantly, this module gives IT Managers greater flexibility in delegating the task of populating the CMDB, as preset business rules help control information integrity and minimize room for error. This module is delivered with an extensive list of predefined attributes and relations. Map, Model & Build Asset Relationships and Dependencies In addition to tapping into preset equipment, categories and templates to manage typical user-end assets (like office equipment in a fixed location or mobile office resources or software), Asset Design gives its users the tools to define an item’s relationships and dependencies by location. User’s can query the CMDB for IT assets such as equipment, software and applications for results from a location or containership perspective. There are also functions to manipulate maps and other representation views in order to visualize the physical position of assets. Asset Design is a key component in the full lifecycle management of IT assets. It ships with a complete toolset for managing a wide spectrum of IT resources, including equipment, software and applications, all according to preset business rules. PRODUCT FEATURES:
Data Center Design  The N(i)² Data Center Design module offers tools specifically designed to optimize data center containership. It helps manage everything from floor plans and rack capacity, to card positioning in chassis, to chassis in racks. It also offers management of ports, devices and physical elements such as power and heat. In addition, Data Center Design generates reports on data center environmental characteristics such as power load and weight. This module makes it easier to map, model and plan change. It is an invaluable tool for data centers or any organization that manages a large volume of chassis and racks. Racks, Chassis, Heat, Power and Space Data Center Design offers an easy way to manage Computer Room or Data Center equipment from a physical characteristics perspective. This module provides Data Center managers with consolidated reporting features on rack physical characteristics (width, depth, total weight), on rack power (load, total current, total power), and on software installed on rack chassis. It offers powerful Data Center Design functions as well, while working in a schematic view. Control on Physical Elements Spatial and containership perspectives enable IT managers to efficiently plan, manage and optimize racks and floor plans, as well as incorporate specifications such as heat dissipation, power requirements, and weight. Data Center Design facilitates the optimization of the physical challenges of managing racks while also assessing the cost efficiency of the equipment. PRODUCT FEATURES:
Structure Design Structure Design provides powerful tools to accurately and efficiently design new network supporting infrastructures, offering the capability to design optimal boundary of serving areas. In addition, it includes advanced impact analysis tools to optimize each design according to technological and financial parameters. Infrastructure Design allows designing and analyzing the performance of each scenario, enabling users to deliver optimal service quality to a maximum number of clients. Physcial Connectivity Design  The N(i)² Physcial Connectivity Module helps data centers categorize inventory and gain control over service provision. From internal operations to service provisioning to the end customer, the data center is the lifeline of any business dependent on information provision and communications technology. Data centers are being called upon to manage not only the physical and logical aspects of their operations, but also ensure zero impact on business and services, lower costs, and increased volumes. From the client to the cable to the data center... easily model the port to the patch panel. These design and management tools give data center managers the information they need to assess how resources connected to the network could be affected by problems or change. In conjunction with the N(i)² CMDB system, this module also gives managers information on how physical connections can impact on services or business. PRODUCT FEATURES:
Logical Connectivity Design  The N(i)² Logical Connectivity Design module offers the ideal tools to manage logical connections in multiple locations while alleviating the complex challenges behind Layer 1 and 2 connectivity modeling. This module is designed to help service providers gain better visibility and control over a Wide Area Network (WAN). Built on generic engineering rules that can be applied to any technology (ATM, SDH, PDH, Frame Relay) N(i)² offers service providers tools to visualize how services are built on top of logical connections between sites. Leveraging the N(i)² Multi-domain CMDB system's multi-environment management capabilities, users can model “What if?” scenarios in order to gain insight on the impact of future changes on the network, services or other business resources. Ports to Conductors to Nodes This module gives network managers quicker and more accurate information on the logical layers of their networks. Connect ports and conductors to nodes on the network, and add valuable information to them including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and how they relate to business services. Easily model ports, paths, circuits, network facilities as well as channels and connections. Logical Connectivity design features also allow for in-depth assessment of how problems and changes will impact resources on the network. Users can also generate reports on specific assets such as circuits, nodes or connections. This application gives network managers the information they need for detailed network analysis to asses how resources connected to the network could be affected by problems or change. PRODUCT FEATURES:
Network Design  Focused on IP design including subnets, hosts, DHCP and IP addresses, the Network Design module is the ideal tool for modeling an organization’s Layer 3 network. Powered by the N(i)² Multi-domain CMDB System, the module using pre-built engineering rules to facilitate the design of subnets and to handle IP addressing. By mapping and modeling a network to the CMDB, IP address conflicts and network connectivity incidents are easily tracked. Knowing who’s impacted by a failure or which networks are implicated helps IT managers gain better visibility and control over the network. Better Network Design, Better Network Management N(i)² offers a Network Design application that gives IT organizations better visibility on their networks for greater control and manageability of a network. With extensive modeling capabilities for Layer 3 networks, this application helps model, map and track IP addresses, VLAN WAN and LAN connectivity. The system also helps track IP address availability and DHCP ranges, further facilitating an IT manager’s ability to visualize and manage the network. Track which IP’s are DHCP-managed, and which are static. Know which IP addresses are connected to which hosts. Network Design also helps you keep track of how your WAN is configured. What ports does it use? Who are the members? What and where are the switchboards? Linking OSI Layer 3 networks with Layers 1 and 2, the N(i)² Network Design applications helps put end-to-end connectivity information on your CMDB, for more effective ICT infrastructure management. PRODUCT FEATURES:
Service Design Nowhere is IT more visible to the outside community than in its ability to provide services to end users. Indeed, the ability to deliver business services on a 24/7 basis has become mission-critical for IT organizations everywhere. That's why a full understanding of the service impacts of disruptions or planned changes to ICT infrastructure is essential to maintaining business continuity.  The Service Design module offers all the features to model and report on business services, allocation to users and their dependencies to the underlying IT infrastructure. Get multi-contextualized views on all data pertaining to the IT services your organization delivers to both internal and external consumers (human resources, companies, organizations, etc.) PRODUCT FEATURES:
Organization Design The Organization Design module contains all the features to model the enterprise human resources organization, complete with roles and their relations to the IT services and infrastructure. |
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