MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BDNA, the leading Data as a Service (DaaS) company, today announced that it has partnered with the leading provider of Technology Business Management™ and two IT management companies to provide its Technopedia® technology data catalog. Apptio®, TechStacker and Rimo3 are partnering with BDNA to deliver solutions to its customers that will ensure consistent, accurate and valuable enterprise IT data. These partnerships capitalize on BDNA’s depth of knowledge and breadth of experience providing constantly updated, critical information to its partners and clients.

“BDNA and Apptio are partnering to provide a rich catalogue and market data to Apptio’s Technology Business Management (TBM) suite of applications enabling new insights on IT investments” said Ted Kummert, EVP of Engineering and Operations at Apptio. “This relationship will enable customers to have greater consistency and more comprehensive data powering insights in critical areas such as power efficiency, cooling, device life-cycle management and much more.”

Apptio provides purpose-built SaaS applications for IT leaders to manage the business of IT. Apptio’s suite of applications use business analytics to provide facts and insights about technology cost, value, and quality, so IT leaders can make faster, data-driven decisions. The purpose-built applications help companies align technology spend to business outcomes and automate IT processes like cost transparency, benchmarking, showback/chargeback, operational efficiency, and planning.This unique approach to TBM bridges the gap between business and IT, ensuring that business decision makers understand the true cost of the systems they deploy.

Technopedia, the world’s largest categorized repository of information about enterprise software and hardware, brings several benefits to these new partners:

• Comprehensive Data: Technopedia provides a comprehensive catalog of hardware and software including more than 40 million market data points, eliminating the requirement for customers to maintain their own.
• Current Data: Technopedia brings the most current product and market information with daily updates, ensuring the latest reference information available is brought to the TBM processes.
• Contextual Data: Leveraging portions of Technopedia Content Packs including Lifecycle and Pricing, which are important for contextual decisions on technologies.

BDNA’s partnership with Apptio follows closely on BDNA’s recent Technopedia partnerships with TechStacker, the cloud-based product evaluation platform, and Rimo3, the Software-as-a-Service startup.

“These new partnerships expand BDNA’s ability to clarify the opaque landscape of IT decision-making for enterprises of any size,” said Walker White, President of BDNA. “The need for clean, transparent data continues to grow as business moves increasingly online, and having Technopedia embedded in online applications helps create a seamless user experience for customers across the board.”

About BDNA

BDNA is the leading Data as a Service company that provides the intelligence needed to better manage IT assets. IT professionals use BDNA to identify risk, improve processes, manage spending and drive revenue. BDNA’s Technopedia^TM serves as the common language of IT, ensuring information flows to the right places of an organization, providing insight into an organization’s operations and resources. Venture backed, the company has locations around the globe and is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, please visit www.bdna.com.