Nlyte Software has launched the latest release of its data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software Nlyte 7.5, in which it added a workflow engine that tightly couples asset lifecycle management with project resource management and improved ease-of-use and interactivity.

The company showcased the latest release at Tuesday's DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in New York.

With the new capabilities, users can manage the lifecycle of equipment in the data center proactively, the company said. Intelligent business process and resource management allows any asset and its lifecycle status to be linked to a workflow task and/or process from multiple access points within Nlyte.

Progress in each project can be tracked as it is made and compared to the original plan. Resources can be allocated dynamically based on their availability, and work items can be pushed to individual users with prioritization.

Robert Neave, co-founder and CTO of Nlyte, said the vision behind the software was to enable customers to plan, build and document data center projects with the level of detail of the general ledger in an accounting department. “This newest iteration allows any process to be captured or designed, modified, assigned, measured and reported, regardless of how complicated it is while each asset project can be viewed in the context of the data center as a complex system,” he said.

Key features in Nlyte 7.5:

 - Measurable, repeatable processes tied directly to teams’ availability and workload

 - Help with task focus and progress status

 - Support for cross-team assignment for tasks shared by multiple teams

 - Generation of instructions for task performers with detailed visual work orders

 - Exportable audit logging at the asset level

 - Adoption of ITIL and COBIT processes in the data center

Other platform improvements:

 - Audit logging for all changes throughout the entire Nlyte system

 - Support for the latest active devices – such as network switches or blade servers – with SFP network media interfaces