Even sophisticated IT organizations have difficulty measuring the impact of network change - a common source of outages, security vulnerabilities and compliance violations.

This challenges executives to safely achieve expected outcomes from consolidation, application deployment and other change-intensive activities. Improving management results requires visibility into the "ripple effect" of specific changes -and the aggregate risk associated with a project.

HOW CAN IPSONAR HELP?
IPsonar^® extends the value of network management and security investments, enabling CIOs to:

• Reduce unplanned outages and compliance violations.
  Gain a regularly updated map of the network based on facts, not impartial or obsolete assumptions. Enable executives and administrators to "look before they leap."
• Scorecard and minimize network risk.
  Determine whether an initiative is causing the network to grow more or less stable, compliant and secure. Scorecard network risk prior to and during execution, ranking "contributing factors" to expedite remediation.
• Improve business continuity preparation and execution.
  Use a full understanding of hosts, devices and connections to verify plans will work as intended. Improve response to actual disruptions by determining their complete downstream impact.
• Manage the project portfolio to expected outcomes.
  Deliver accurate time lines for integration and management of new resources or connectivity to new partners. Use a big-picture network view to prevent projects in one area from destabilizing efforts in another.