IT Asset Decommissioning via Solution Data Models
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems lack the capability to identify all existing relationships within an entity, leading to human errors and incomplete impact assessment during the decommissioning of information technology assets.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates solution data models by integrating authentication, human resources, and asset management information to identify relationships between asset systems, users, and applications, allowing for comprehensive impact assessment and mitigation before decommissioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual monitoring by user groups is used to identify impacts before decommissioning, then human oversight and control are maintained, but human errors occur and not all potential impacts are identified
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an automated impact assessment system that acts as an intermediary between manual decommissioning requests and actual decommissioning execution. This system automatically identifies relationships between IT assets and other systems, generating comprehensive impact assessments without requiring manual monitoring, thereby eliminating human error while maintaining control through automated analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of user group monitoring with an automated computational system that uses data models and algorithms to identify impacts. The automated system substitutes human cognitive processes with machine-based relationship analysis, achieving higher reliability through consistent, error-free automated identification of all potential impacts.
2Reliability
If comprehensive relationship identification within entities is implemented, then all potential impacts are identified, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary relationship mapping by creating data models that pre-establish relationships between IT assets, systems, and components before decommissioning is needed. This advance preparation stores relationship information in structured formats, enabling rapid and complete impact identification without requiring complex real-time analysis during the actual decommissioning process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified data model representations (copies) of the actual complex IT environment. These models replicate relationships in a manageable format that can be easily analyzed and queried, allowing comprehensive relationship identification without dealing with the full complexity of the actual systems. The models serve as manageable replicas that capture essential relationships.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for decommissioning information technology assets using solution data modelling. The system is typically configured for generating solution data models comprising a plurality of asset systems and a plurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of asset systems is associated with at least one user of the plurality of users and wherein at least a first of the plurality of asset systems is associated with at least a second of the plurality of asset systems, storing the solution data models in a model database, identifying at least one information technology asset for decommissioning, accessing a first solution data model associated with the at least one information technology asset, identifying one or more relationships associated with the at least one information technology asset, and decommissioning the at least one information technology asset based on the one or more relationships.