During Neptuny presentation, Giuseppe Nardiello, Business Development Manager, described the real case of one of Europe's largest banks, where Caplan has been integrated with HP Universal CMDB. The presentation was introduced by Ashish Kuthiala, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Emerging Technology Group and CMS, who has welcomed Neptuny among the few selected vendors providing added-value integration to UCMDB that have been invited to join the UCMDB program.

The presentation can be downloaded from Neptuny website (www.neptuny.com).

Neptuny showed the benefits of leveraging a Configuration Management System (CMS) for Capacity Planning purposes. By importing configuration items (e.g. describing the asset information of the managed systems),    their relationships (e.g. the infrastructure topology), as well as the service catalog, Caplan can automatically apply capacity planning to newly released or updated services and to automatically generate its outputs, such as performance and forecast analyses, what-if scenarios (and consolidation simulation) and reports, according to the defined capacity planning policies. Caplan provides out-of-box connectors to the major CMDBs, such as HP Universal CMDB. This approach ensures that Capacity Management is consistently applied and integrated with other IT Service Management processes  thus providing major benefits in terms of cost reduction (due a more effective just-in-time provisioning), operational efficiency (closed-loop configuration and capacity management) and risk avoidance.