Cirrant Partners, Inc. http://www.cirrant.com just hosted Mr Cuthbertson of AssetGen at The Digital Sandbox to illustrate how his software could help a company visualize its IT infrastructure. I know you already do this through Visio. Well, so does he. The only difference is that his technique will save you tens to hundreds of hours of work. By maintaining three simple Excel spreadsheets you can immediately update every Visio diagram of your IT infrastructure.
How about the ability, with the addition of a fourth spreadsheet, to tie every business and application in the organization to that map. That’s right, now you can see at the touch of a button every application, every business unit, every mission-critical process that will be effected when you bring that server down for maintenance on Friday night. Even if the one tech who knows about the obscure relationship is on vacation.
Roy
