ANECT a.s. - system architect and integrator
Electronic Operational Documentation (ePD)
The Electronic Operational Documentation (ePD) is a system developed for centralized documentation and visualization of client´s ICT infrastructure.
For every inventory item, ePD provides all related technical, maintenance and logistics information.
The ePD output data is great aid to your recording, planning, monitoring and control activities. It supports your capacity planning by providing comprehensive reports and diagrams with details on your ICT features and all their links.
The main benefits of ePD for the client
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The application provides you with a graphic representation of the physical and logical topology with which you can quickly understand the mutual dependencies and links among all of the services and features.
- Easy updating and automated gathering of all sorts of technical and business data about your ICT infrastructure features.
- ICT inventory check becomes much faster and more accurate.
- You need less internal resources for gathering and updating information about your ICT features.
- You have enough information to decide how to use your current ICT features efficiently - ePD provides you with easily available, up-to-date and well-structured data about your ICT features and equipment.
- Easily available, consolidated information about each of your ICT features will help you to make the right decisions about new HW and SW investments.
- ePD supports solving critical situations occurring during your ICT operation.
- More accurate inventory count - ePD supports automated updating of technical and business data and thus significantly reduces the risk of human errors.
- Systematic and effective approach to property inventory check.
In what ways the solution can be provided
One-time inventory check of your ICT features
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One-time inventory check of your ICT features (the price depends on how large your network is and how much work there is to be done).
Shared central solution - provided as SaaS (Software as a Service).
- You can lease the application and licenses (including server space).
- You can lease a part of the centralized and shared solution.
- With this option you will always have the information on your current ICT features status at hand.
- This option is the right choice if you do not want to invest in purchasing your own solution.
- Communication between users and the application uses the secure HTTPs protocol. To access the application, users have their own username and password.
Selling applications and licenses
- You can purchase a physically separate solution (implemented on your premises).
- This option gives you total control over all data in your network (the price depends on the number of licenses and modules that you have purchased).
Figure 1 Example of ePD services provided to clients
Services provided
Administration of ePD data:
- Recording technical specifications of customer´s devices and systems under maintenance
- Recording device location (at which of customer´s locations the device is being used)
- Recording business and logistics information about the device (contracts, delivery notes, protocols etc.)
- Continuous ePD data updating
Configuration and administration of ePD application:
- Creating customer reports with updated data (the reports can be exported to MS Excel)
- Creating data maps (schemes of features and their links)
- Getting data ready for import and testing scripts for generating XML
- Access rights setup, administration of user groups and attributes
- Defining rules and types of features (instruction for creating feature attributes)
- Configuration of ePD objects (containers, features and links)
Automated data discovery:
- Automated network monitoring and data discovery that uses the NetWalk module
- Updating information about lines and network components (on a regular or ad hoc basis)
Would you like to know more?
Contact us through one of our Account Managers by phone +420 271 100 100 or e-mail: anect@anect.com, and we will take a look at your issues with you and see how we can help.
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