Safe

Offered as a physical or virtual appliance, Foundation is fully hardened and penetration tested for high security. Server passwords are kept safe in a credentials vault and protected with the strongest encryption. The discovery engine uses secure communications to servers and client sessions are run in a browser over SSL. No wonder more than 30% of the world’s top banks trust the security of Foundation.

Lightweight

Foundation creates a negligible load on your network and servers. It doesn’t use agents – so there isn’t the associated system destabilization, CPU tax and platform testing burden that other solutions impose. Scanning windows can be tightly defined so only the appropriate servers are scanned – and only when you want them to be.

Scalable

Foundation can refresh an entire global enterprise infrastructure picture on an intraday basis across tens of thousands of servers. Federate indexing to localize traffic across geographical regions and time-zones or enhance indexing speed. Foundation is the most scalable solution available and proven in infrastructures of up to 50,000 servers.

No Hardware or Software Agenda

Foundation isn’t part of some monolithic service management framework – meaning we have no hardware or software agenda so are completely technology-neutral. Trying to integrate multiple frameworks? We can make them play nice by acting as a single hub for the configuration information they need. It’s this agnostic approach that ensures Foundation offers the broadest out-of-the-box coverage of vendors and data center technologies in the industry.

Trustworthy

Foundation has the unique ability to provide data provenance: a definitive chain of evidence that relates each configuration item (CI) and attribute to its source. This means we can validate and verify any object or attribute’s origin and reliability. Finally – a way to remove doubt, enable trust and build confidence in the information you use to make critical business decisions.

Integrates

Foundation provides pre-configured adaptors to multiple CMDBs and BSM products plus a comprehensive integration toolkit – so you can easily integrate with the rest of your service management ecosystem. Now, all your staff (and systems) can operate from the same set of reliable information.