Features | How Customers Use Evolven

Get notified on high risk changes before issues start

High risk changes are responsible for most performance and availability incidents.

Evolven allows you to:

• Detect all actual changes from infra to application, from configuration to workload
• Assess risk of changes based on a number of automatic risk algorithms
• Correlate and analyze changes with data from existing ITSM and monitoring tools
• Alert/report on identified high risk changes

Detect actual changes that were not approved.

Unauthorized changes represent serious threats to environment stability and security.

• Evolven correlates actual changes it detects with the data from service desk and deployment automation tools (ServiceNow, CA Service Desk, HP Service Manager, BMC Remedy etc.)
• Evolven automatically detects unauthorized changes that were executed outside of the planned change implementation timeframe or change deployment scope
• Evolven allows to define authorization rules to automatically qualify regular legitimate change activities or, on contrary, to monitor and ensure change freeze

Accurate answers to the most challenging questions, instantly.

Evolven instantly provides you with accurate answers to the most challenging questions asked by auditors:

• What was actually changed in your environment?
• What is the actual state of your environment right now?
• Are all environments consistent?
• Were all approved changes actually implemented?
• Are there any unauthorized changes that do not correlate to any approved change request?

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Resolving Audit Teams Requirements
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Validate that all approved changes were accurately implemented.

IT is measured by its ability to successfully and rapidly drive changes that support the business. To do this IT focuses on planning and executing changes, then later, monitoring the health of the environment. Yet, IT still struggles to answer a basic question “what actually changed”.

Evolven allows you to:

• Know all actual changes from infra to application, from configuration to workload at the most detailed level
• Correlate the actual changes with approved changes requests and deployments to maintain complete change audit trail detecting unauthorized changes
• Validate that all changes were deployed consistently, as planned and tested

Ensure that infrastructure is ready for deployment.

Infrastructure and application deployments frequently are executed by separate teams. This can result in unexpected infrastructure changes executed prior to application deployment, deviation from deployment pre-requisites, misaligned testing and production environments etc.

Evolven allows you to:

• Compare infrastructure in the target environment with a “golden baseline”
• Define policies to be verified prior to deployment to ensure that infrastructure is in the desired state prior to deployment
• Compare infrastructure in the target environment with the environment where a deployed update was tested
• Verify consistency of the target infrastructure