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Pathway Systems's Blueprints™ is a system for creating and maintaining IT systems diagrams and documentation that scales to support complex IT infrastructures.
Blueprints™ solves the following problems that exist with traditional approaches to documenting information technology:
Outdated:
IT configuration constantly changes and diagrams quickly get out of date. Blueprints give IT workers an easy way to make changes to diagrams without the drudgery of repositioning objects within diagrams. Users describe relationships between IT components, and Blueprints does all the visual layout automatically.
TMI (too much information):
You can't put everything in the same diagram; there's just too much information. Instead, Blueprints renders diagrams for you "on the fly" based on what you want to see. You describe the topology, Blueprints makes the diagram.
Hidden or non-existent:
Blueprints provides a central repository of visual configuration information. Everyone accesses the system via a web browser, gets their own login and can interact with visualizations made just for them.
Analysis:
You can use the documentation to analyze your environment. Since the system "knows" about the objects and relations, it can do things conventional documentation can't, like tell you
which applications and users need a particular database no matter how convoluted the chain of dependencies.
Publish and Share:
Blueprints can generate complete (you guessed it) blueprints of your IT environment, in PDF form, with navigation bookmarks and index. It produces individual books that focus on specific aspects like "production applications" or "critical data locations". Or it can generate a comprehensive set to support any disaster recovery rebuild efforts at a hot site.
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