ChangeGear Enterprise - SunView Software, Inc.

ChangeGear^® - Change & Configuration Management

Manage IT Change Controls from Data Center to Desktop.

ChangeGear is a seamlessly integrated platform that allows IT organizations to simplify and automate IT change control and configuration management. ChangeGear provides visibility into your critical datacenter assets and allows you to establish an automated change management process.

Designed with the ITIL best practices framework, ChangeGear’s ensures that any change introduced into the IT infrastructure follows a regulated process; this reduces system downtime and enforces regulatory compliance. The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) features built-in auto-discovery, dependency mapping, and configuration auditing that allows organizations to easily manage their entire virtual and physical infrastructure.

ChangeGear was built with simplicity as its principal design component - featuring an intuitive user interface. With ChangeGear you can rapidly deploy and utilize its advanced capabilities to gain deeper insight into the critical IT infrastructure. Having a single comprehensive repository of IT information helps companies meet today’s demanding business requirements, from eliminating costly downtime to securing valuable assets to demonstrating regulatory compliance.

ChangeGear Enterprise Edition

Our best-of breed Change Management solution combined with a seamlessly integrated Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This edition includes our Resource Discovery Expert for automated network discovery and many extensibility features that enable you to easily customize ChangeGear to meet you specific needs. Learn More…

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Change & Configuration Management Features

Change & Release Management	Easily track, manage, and control all IT changes made to your IT environment using the ITIL best practices framework.
Configuration Management	Gain complete visibility of every component in your IT infrastructure with the discovery of assets, software configuration, and dependencies.
CMDB	Federated repository of IT resources that includes business services, hardware, software, users, documentation, and configuration. The CMDB can be extended to contain custom resource types and comes with the ability to add attributes and modify forms.
Web 2.0 .NET Architecture	The intuitive Microsoft .NET web-interface makes it easy to use and simple to deploy. Even non-technical staff can use ChangeGear with little to no training involved.
Business Policy Automation	Business rules engine will monitor ChangeGear according to specific rules and conditionally respond with the actions you specify. With the BPA, you can easily create new business rules and set up IT process automation and notifications.
Customizable Workflows	The standard workflow is based on ITIL best practices, but the built-in workflow editor allows you to customize the workflow to meet the needs of your organization.
Notification & Alerts	Automated alerts about impending changes and email templates can be tailored for individual change notifications – ensuring the necessary personnel are notified at each stage in the change lifecycle.
Multi-level Approvals	Requests for approval are automatically sent to the approvers based on pre-defined conditions and progress within the workflow.
Automated Network Discovery	The ChangeGear Resource Discovery Expert (RDE) automatically discovers applications, servers, and network devices to provide visibility and insight into your virtual and physical IT infrastructure. The RDE framework allows you to plug in your own custom collectors to meet your specific configuration needs.
Dependency Mapping	Gain unparalleled visibility into the IT infrastructure with visual mapping of CIs, their dependencies, and relationships. These graphical representations are critical for assessing the impact of potential changes, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
Dynamic Request Automation	Intelligent handling of requests that leverage the power of customized forms, advanced workflows, notifications, and approvals. Form authoring tools give you complete control of the layout, labels, what fields are displayed on the ticket, actions, and workflows.
Configuration Auditing	Using the built-in Business Policy Automation tools, CMDB monitors hardware and software change, alerts IT staff of unauthorized network changes/access and maintains audit trail of change activities.
Task Management	Tasks associated with change can be facilitated within the Change ticket. This allows you to assign tasks, track time, measure change success rate, and calculate the dollar cost of change.
Directory Services Integration	Users can be created automatically using the Active Directory and LDAP integration - adding to the short deployment time.
Personalized Dashboard	Performance dashboard displays real-time graphs, metrics, and KPIs – providing up-to-date information about the change activities within your environment.
Historical Audit-Tracking	Change activity is tracked and documented for troubleshooting and meeting compliance audit requirements. The historical audit-trail will tell you what actions were taken, when the action was completed, who completed the action, and record any comments provided.
Real-time reporting	Reporting is simple with ChangeGear. You can report on all aspects of IT change activities using our pre-defined reports or the built-in ad-hoc reporting tool. ChangeGear also integrates with Crystal Reports.
Announcement Calendar	Web-based calendar that enables you to create, schedule, automate, and track messages. This tool allows you to proactively inform your users about important IT matters and improve overall communication from the IT department.
Mobile Access	Perform various actions such as submit service requests, approve change tickets, receive notifications, and escalate tickets on a mobile device. Use this tool to quickly enter requests while performing on-site troubleshooting or to respond to approval notifications.
Web Services SDK	Seamless integration allows you to change-enable your organization. ChangeGear can easily integrate with an existing system monitoring, network management, or help desk application.

Understand the Benefits of ChangeGear

Increase IT service uptime	Research shows that 80% of unplanned downtime is caused by unplanned change. This makes the need for effective change management critical to maintaining system uptime and ensuring regulatory compliance. ChangeGear helps organizations prevent costly downtime by tracking and managing all change requests throughout their entire lifecycle, ensuring that any change introduced into the IT infrastructure follows a pre-determined set of procedures.
Improve infrastructure visibility	Knowing what you have in your IT infrastructure helps identify and alleviate potential issues prior to deployment of a change and enables faster resolution of problems. ChangeGear gives you an extensive picture of your network through graphical representations of assets, their dependencies and attributes. That degree of visibility provides the information necessary for improved security and control, impact analysis and better business alignment.
Achieve regulatory compliance	Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA, and other regulatory measures can present serious challenges for today’s business. ChangeGear helps you with compliance by establishing and enforcing repeatable processes, and providing you an audit trail of historical data for easy reporting. With streamlined processes, you can apply consistent policies governing everything from access rights to change authorizations – making it simple to achieve compliance.
Reduce operating costs	Every day IT organizations are faced with the pressure to reduce costs while still maintaining high quality of service and improving productivity. ChangeGear helps you increase operational efficiency by allowing you to automate your IT processes, leverage staff resources, increase incident response time and optimize your current IT infrastructure. With a software that focuses on operational efficiency, your organization can work smarter, increase productivity, and reduce costs.
Simplify and automate IT processes	It is essential to ensure IT processes are in place and that they are enforced. Through IT process automation, ChangeGear can help you simplify historical documentation, set up a dynamic notification structure, complete task and project management, and implement your entire approval process. With ChangeGear, you can easily automate and implement any part of an IT process.
Enable system consolidation	Siloed systems make it difficult to manage your IT environment and maintain the integrity of valuable data. Because successful integration of all your systems is essential, ChangeGear is designed with seamless integration in mind - allowing for easy management and sharing of information. Not only are the ChangeGear products seamlessly integrated, but it can also preserve your initial investment by integrating with your existing help desk, asset management, system monitoring, and network management software.