ITBI™ from SMT Data merges information from IT and the business and creates transparency of the relation between the two, to ultimately support the business objectives of the organization.

IT systems generate a wealth of technical data describing anything from hardware utilization to user activity or service levels. A mainframe has more than 100,000 points of measurement and a Windows server more than 2,500, all recorded continuously.  

Even medium IT installations register many million rows and columns of measurements every single day. Operational real time monitors use this data to evaluate the actual state, often against standard thresholds. The very same data, however, can be used for creating valuable information at all organizational levels.

To transform such technical details into useful information requires massive data reduction as well as data refinement and the coupling of data from other sources, often organizational or application related, to create new information. ITBI™ delivers standard data collection interfaces to all conventional IT platforms in order to provide quick implementation and a rapid return on investment.  

ITBI™ from SMT Data includes more than 200,000 active sets of rules and policies for reducing and refining the collected standard IT measurements.

The rules- and policy-engine is called the SMT/Dictionary and this is the essence of SMT Data’s vast experience from many years dedicated to this line of work.

The extracted information is stored in the flexible SMT/Transparency Grid, which is prepared for easy addition of company specific data like business activity, organizational data and budgets. This combination of technical and business-related data sources makes ITBI™ information extremely valuable across the entire organization.

Finally, SMT Data provides a state-of-the-art user interface for reporting and drill-down analysis, including dashboards on PC, tablets or smartphones and Web Portals for dynamic reports published on intranet or extranet. Advanced users are able to easily design and create their own reports.

The result is a desktop dashboard analysis, serving the CEOs as decision support, general insight and transparency of the relation between IT and business.