Today's global business environment requires around-the-clock system availability that extends far beyond the traditional data center. Yet, infrastructure complexity threatens system performance and availability, especially as environments become increasingly more heterogeneous and new technologies like virtualization multiply the number of systems within many environments. The challenge to deliver business services more effectively is further compounded by the growing number of governmental and industry imposed regulatory mandates.

Since its inception in 1999, Ecora Software has been providing configuration audit and compliance reporting solutions to customers worldwide, ensuring their IT infrastructures remain operationally effective, secure and compliant. As a crucial element integrated into an overall Business Service Management (BSM) strategy, Ecora is the market leader in transforming enterprise-wide configuration data into clear, actionable reports for regulatory compliance and enabling IT best practices.

Product Overview:

Actively used by 800 worldwide customers, Ecora's leading configuration auditing and compliance reporting software solutions reduce the time and costs associated with IT control, compliance, and security. Ecora delivers an immediate return on investment by automating critical, time-consuming IT tasks, so you can focus on other money-making, business-critical objectives.

Ecora Auditor Professional: Ecora Auditor Pro provides organizations visibility into the performance, security and compliance of their IT infrastructure through the agentless collection and reporting of detailed, enterprise-wide configuration information.
Combining this detailed configuration information with the thousands of pre-built report templates in Auditor Pro, organizations are able to:

• Improve systems availability by proactively eliminating unstable configuration change
• Reduce audit and compliance preparation costs by 95%
• Quickly identify authorized and unauthorized system changes
• Shorten problem resolution by 80%
• Receive Identity Management benefits quicker and less expensively than a full Identity Management System
• Proactively identify and prevent problems to reduce trouble tickets by up to 50%

Ecora Auditor Professional also includes the following optional modules:

Compliance Center:
Ecora Compliance Center combines policy-based dashboard and web-based reporting capabilities into a streamlined intuitive interface. Aimed at consumers of operational management and compliance information (CISO,CIO, auditors, change and security managers), Ecora Compliance Center allows users to keep their finger on the pulse of organizational compliance status with customizable dashboards and compliance trend information that can compare your infrastructure’s current configuration settings against settings required for external regulatory standards or your own established internal standards. For detailed compliance and IT operations reporting, Ecora Compliance Center provides an easy way to generate and share compliance reports across your enterprise.

Executive Dashboard:
The Ecora Executive Dashboard provides configuration analysis in a context appropriate for multiple roles within an organization. Executives are able to quickly understand the overall compliance of their entire environment with just a glance at the Red-Yellow-Green pie chart, based on internal standards or external regulations. IT Managers can use their own role-based view to identify individual systems that are out of compliance with specified objectives and set priorities for remediation. With just a few clicks, administrators are able to determine the exact rules that are out of compliance and the specific configuration attribute in need of remediation in order to restore a proper compliant state.

The Executive Dashboard uses a rich repository of pre-defined policies based on IT best practice standards and regulatory compliance requirements to effectively analyze the tens of thousands of configuration settings collected by Ecora Auditor Pro and stored within Ecora's centralized configuration database. Ecora Executive Dashboard comes pre-populated with policies that assess compliance with regulatory standards like Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA/FISCAM, HIPAA, GLBA, and PCI and best practice frameworks like CIS, SANS and NIST. Policies are continuously updated as requirements change or new regulations or standards are added.

Service Management Interface Connector:
Organizations can extend the effectiveness of their change control process by utilizing the Service Management Interface Connector to integrate with leading service and help desk tools to validate approved changes are completed successfully, identify any unauthorized or unintended changes for proper approval or potential remediation, and maintain baseline configurations. Additionally, Auditor Pro's rich, pre-built report templates can provide service and help desk users with complete automation of IT standards enforcement, including external regulations (SOX, PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA, and more), internal best practices (ITIL, CobIT), security requirements (CIS, SANS), or any other standards requiring validation of IT controls.

The Service Management Interface Connector currently supports adapters for BMC® Atrium and Remedy, HP® Service Desk, and Service Now. Integrations are currently being developed with enterprise security management solutions like Intellitactics and compliance management solutions from Compliance Spectrum. Future integrations are being developed for HP Service Manager. Ecora’s Service Management Interface Connector provides an extensible framework for integrating with other applications, including security management applications, remediation engines, and other IT and Business Service Management -related services and components.