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Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

With FNT DCIM, you can centrally manage your entire data center infrastructure, from floor space, capacity, and power to racks, IT assets, and cabling. As a digital twin, the software provides transparency and a reliable data foundation, and supports the planning, operation, and further development of your data center. Intuitive 3D visualizations, heat maps, and open interfaces simplify capacity planning and integration into existing IT systems.

Your Advantages at a Glance

Cable Management

Managing passive cabling equipment and infrastructure including trays, master patch management, and network connection capacity used by the data center. It enables the optimization of lead times for changes to the physical network and the acceleration of support processes to minimize network downtime.

Complete digital twin of the data center

With FNT, you get vendor-neutral, consistent documentation of all assets, capacities, and power and cooling data—the ideal foundation for transparency, capacity planning, and optimized resource utilization.

Greater operational reliability through reliable data and clear dependencies

FNT DCIM immediately highlights critical interdependencies, reduces risks, and supports the secure, efficient management of all operational processes in the data center.

More than 30 years of experience

For over three decades, FNT has been developing high-performance software solutions for the documentation and management of complex IT, network, and data center infrastructures.

The Right Package for Data Center Management

If you want to document, monitor, and efficiently manage your data center in a comprehensive way, our Asset Inventory and Data Center Management packages are the right choice.

Highlights of FNT’s DCIM Software

FNT's Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) is a resource management and optimization tool that creates a complete overview of the data center’s entire system landscape. It streamlines processes and optimizes the use of building infrastructure (power, cooling, floor space), IT infrastructure (networks, servers, storage), connectivity (cables, patches) and services (software, applications). It stores this information as a digital twin that represents the entire data center environment. The digital twin data is kept up to date in a single, dynamically updating repository that can easily be integrated into key systems

The data center management solution additionally contains many modern management functions, from analysis and visualization to planning and process management. These can be used to run more efficient data center operations, improve data center infrastructure planning, and plan capacity for future growth. Additionally, 2D and 3D views of the rooms can be created to provide a visual overview of the physical space. 

From recording and monitoring live power consumption and temperature values to planning the entire data center, FNT DCIM software will keep your data center operating with maximum efficiency.

Floor Space Management

Footprints, or graphical representations of entire data centers or zones within them, help to understand the real situation in a data center. Racks, floor tiles, cable trays and climate zones can be placed and arranged. Store floor plans of rooms as background images and lay grids of floor tiles on top.

Capacity Management

Utilization diagrams provide information on usage of air conditioning, power, and floor space by room or data center.

Zone Management

Real estate documentation of a data center is structured hierarchically, starting with the property and getting increasingly granular with the campus, building, floor, and room. The structure is configurable, and zones can be linked within or between hierarchical layers.

Cable and Patch Management

Encompasses all cabling, including back bone and patching inside the data center and between sites. Various display options show connections, including the graphical view inside cabinets. Signal tracing allows fast analysis of the entire signal chain from any selected port.

Lifecycle and Object Management

Record every change in the database throughout the lifecycle of an object. A History function documents a range of parameters for every CI, such as location, attributes, links, users, and type of change. This information can be evaluated for one or more CIs using comprehensive reporting functionality.

Power Management

Plan and manage power distributor systems, consisting of power distributors with the associated power buses and rails. Fuses are placed in the outgoing lines on the respective power rails and connected graphically with the corresponding terminal device.

Rack Elevation Management

Graphic representation of the rack enhanced with a photorealistic imagery, 2 and 3D representations of entire rooms, and a 3D footprint view provide fast and comprehensive overviews of current and planned conditions within the data center.

FNT Solution for efficient Data Center Management

FNT's DCIM solution gives you a comprehensive overview of the infrastructure, enables you to make more informed decisions and makes planning and change processes much more effective.

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FAQ: Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

What makes a DCIM tool future-proof?

Data center management needs are constantly evolving. Changes such as the rise of colocation, virtualization, and hybrid infrastructures are impacting management processes. A DCIM that is future-proof can adapt to changes and still remain effective. This is important because it helps avoid expensive overhauls or replacements when software no longer meets user needs.

DCIM should be selected with longevity in mind. You want a solution that is adaptable to accommodate future developments. An adaptable solution will integrate with other systems, which requires an extensive connectivity layer to exchange data with other data sources or systems that may be added to the IT landscape. It will be open and flexible to facilitate the import of data from other systems. It will be scalable so that it can easily be expanded to add additional functionality needed to meet specific business needs as they arise.

For more details on next generation tool requirements, see our free White Paper "Rethinking DCIM".

What makes a DCIM implementation successful?

A successful DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) implementation depends on more than just the right software. Based on our experience with over 2,000 implementation projects worldwide, we’ve seen that the key to long-term success lies in aligning the implementation approach with your organization’s unique structures, goals, and processes.

Three key factors stand out:

  1. Strategic Planning from Day One
    Implementation success begins long before the project kickoff. The most effective organizations involve their internal stakeholders early and integrate implementation planning into the tender and vendor selection phase. This allows for realistic scoping, clearer requirement definitions, and better change management from the start.
  2. Tailored Implementation Methodology
    One-size-fits-all approaches rarely work for enterprise-scale management tools. The rollout must fit your internal workflows, IT landscape, and organizational maturity. Whether agile or phased, the method must support your business – not disrupt it.
  3. Collaborative Partnership
    Choose a vendor who acts not just as a software provider, but as an implementation partner. Deep domain expertise, proven project experience, and transparent communication are essential. A good partner adapts to your pace and helps you translate technical capabilities into real business value.

For more details on implementation best practices, see our free White Paper "IT Infrastructure Management Tools".

What ROI can I expect from DCIM?

Much has been written about this topic by analysts, experts, and vendors that clearly demonstrates the value of DCIM. From reducing time and effort for planning, minimizing outage risks, and speeding up root cause analysis, DCIM contributes to reducing OPEX with a wide range of cost reduction aspects that clearly justify the investment.

Further Downloads

Would you like to know more about DCIM? Then you might be interested in the following:

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