Professional Systems Associates, Inc.

Configuration Management

Professional Systems Associates, Inc. has built a solid reputation of meeting customer requirements, on time and on budget for configuration management and product lifecycle management solutions using the CMPRO software tool. The configuration management basics in CMPRO include:

• Document and drawing management
• Released software management
• IT asset management
• Contract tracking
• Configuration Status Accounting (CSA)
• Configuration Status Accounting Reporting (CSAR)

CMPRO provides a Document Repository and a separate Drawing Repository to manage documents and drawings. These "vaults" provide centralized locations for managing metadata associated with drawings and documents, as well as their attached electronic files in their native file formats. There are also automatic baseline management capabilities for inter-related data used to gather and manage the data on a configuration in one place.

The CMPRO Released Software Management Module provides functionality similar to the drawing and document repositories for released software. Basic revision control is provided, as well as license and location tracking, and media type and distribution tracking. Managing released software with CMPRO can benefit your business by:

• Managing the Software Version Repository ("vault")
• Knowing the baseline impacts
• Knowing what versions are published and to what hardware
• Managing Patch Download & License Tracking

The IT Asset Management Module provides processes to track the configuration of IT network nodes and assets. This module also contains methods to create and track actions to be performed against the network nodes (such as IAVAs), as well as facilitating notifications and status tracking. As part of this module, a process to import data from network discovery tools and compare it to node configurations is also provided. The simple structure of the IT Asset Management Module configuration tracking enables Total Asset Visibility.

To learn more about how PSA can help with your configuration management needs, Contact Us for a demo!