BMC Software has release Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping offering with collaborative application mapping.

With the new offering, BMC reportedly reduces the time, effort and cost of mapping multi-tier applications to the IT infrastructure supporting them by simplifying both the process and technology and application owners can provide a small amount of basic information. With this data, IT can use the BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping offering’s search and query- building capabilities to create a dynamic application map.

With the BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping offering, IT leaders have the insight they need to make the right planning choices, safely manage changes, prioritise support and understand the real costs of IT.

The addition of BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping, provides capabilities that not only enable customers to save time and resources, but also expand the power of BSM to a broader set of business critical applications.

BMC Research and Development vice-president John Peters said understanding multi-tier application dependencies is critical to understanding how IT resources support business services and how IT supports their business customers.

"Until now, this has been an elusive goal for most vendors despite their claims. By streamlining the interaction between application owners and IT, we have created a pragmatic approach to build ongoing visibility into complex application dependencies and have changed the game for our customers by helping them make bigger contributions to their businesses in a way that no other IT management provider can match," said Peters.