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Veiwpoint - Focus on: CMDB
White Papers Articles include: "CMDB: Driving a New IT Reality," "What Does IT Cost? CMDB: The Heart of IT Service Management," "Implementation Advice from the Experts," and "Understanding Enabling Technologies. Download this compilation of articles by industry...
[November 17, 2006, 7:56]
Maximizing the Business Value of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
White Papers The challenges of effective configuration management require a combination of well-designed, efficient processes and management tools that enable an automated approach to building, maintaining, and verifying records in an enterprise Configuration...
[April 21, 2006, 1:01]
Myths of the Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB)
White Papers There are many things to consider when implementing a CMDB. Hopefully, by being explicit about specific risks, the deployment of a CMDB will not only be technically successful, but will legitimize the unique contribution of IT to an organization's...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Configuration Management Database (CMDB): Cornerstone of ITIL-Based Integrated Service Support
White Papers This is the idea behind a configuration management database (CMDB). This paper discusses the function, benefits, and importance of a CMDB and why it has become the cornerstone of IT service support. Often, integration of applications simply means...
[January 3, 2006, 0:01]
CMDB: The Heart of IT Service Management
White Papers A CMDB helps you implement ITIL best practices successfully, and it provides the basis for information sharing to facilitate cross-functional process integration. Whether or not you adopt ITIL best practices, you should consider using a CMDB to...
[March 22, 2006, 0:01]
Designing & Implementing an Actionable Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
White Papers The notion of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) remains a confusing and sometimes even arcane topic to many in the enterprise management industry today. However, the CMDB as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) characterizes it, is rapidly...
[August 3, 2007, 0:08]
Discovery and the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
White Papers A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) forms the foundation for many processes that contribute to running, growing, and transforming the business. When running the business, a CMDB can reduce costs by helping to contain the effects of incidents...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
CMDB in 5 Steps
White Papers CMDB in 5 steps is a project guide for implementing a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Knowing where those are, managing authorisation processes and tracking changes with the help of the CMDB is especially important when adopting SOX and...
[November 30, 2006, 0:48]
The CMDB Landscape: Market Directions, Vendor Solutions and IT Deployments
White Papers In today's large and complex IT infrastructures, Configuration Management requires the use of support tools, which includes a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Physical and electronic libraries are needed along with the CMDB to hold...
[March 2, 2009, 22:44]
Creating an Accurate CMDB Through Reconciliation
White Papers This webinar will examine the functionality required to maintain an accurate and up-to-date model of your IT infrastructure within the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). It discusses the different concepts around the reconciliation of data...
[November 9, 2005, 23:00]
Top 5 Reasons Why CMDB Projects Fail - And How to Avoid Them
White Papers When automated and populated with truly accurate information, a CMDB enables effective risk and impact analysis of planned changes before they occur and allows IT organizations to quickly isolate and resolve service problems.
[May 4, 2007, 7:20]
ITIL and CMDB Synergy: Enhanced Service Management
White Papers That's why an increasing number of IT organizations are seriously looking at how a configuration management database (CMDB) can help them manage their infrastructure more effectively. A CMDB should work in harmony with IT Infrastructure Library...
[July 9, 2009, 3:13]
Relicore Clarity: Real-Time, Accurate Application and Server Configuration Information for Your Enterprise CMDB
White Papers Central to IT service management is the Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) which contains information about the IT infrastructure. However, a major challenge companies are faced with is dealing with the configuration complexity in their...
[May 4, 2006, 10:17]
The CMDB: Relief for Your IT Headaches
White Papers A healthcare services provider deploys a CMDB to unify change management, configuration management, and incident management. The CMDB enables IT to provide more services and support a more complex infrastructure - with fewer headaches.
[March 22, 2006, 0:01]
The Role of a CMDB in Enterprise Architecture Planning
White Papers In particular it will focus on the role of the CMDB as the central hub for both EA and ITIL initiatives. Many enterprises are now pursuing Enterprise Architecture (EA) planning initiatives to ensure they use their IT resources more efficiently and...
[March 21, 2006, 23:00]
Best Practices for Modeling Business Entities in the BMC Atrium CMDB
White Papers The BMC Atrium Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) has been extended to allow this information to be stored and managed using an increasingly rich collection of integrated software products. Business Service Management (BSM) includes the...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
BMC Paves the Service Desk Road Map: CMDB at the Heart of Integration Strategy
White Papers The vendor has begun to execute on its Atrium strategy, tying tools together over a common Configuration Management Database (CMDB), service model, integrated reporting tools, and a unified interface.
[April 19, 2006, 1:01]
The Role of the Capacity Management Database in the ITIL Capacity Management Process: Extending the CMDB With Capacity Management Data
White Papers According to ITIL, the CDB is the cornerstone of a successful capacity management process as a subset of a Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB). Within the capacity management process, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) recommends to have a...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Understanding Federated CMDB's and How to Take Advantage of Real-Time, Automatic Discovery to Continuously Populate Them
White Papers Both the value and promise of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) are in having a dynamic and accurate picture of what one manages across the infrastructure, a cohesive and consistent way to consolidate management data, the ability to do...
[March 14, 2006, 23:00]
Deciding on the Right CMDB Granularity for Your MOF/ITIL Implementation
White Papers The MOF Operations Guide for Configuration Management implies that the tools used to implement Configuration Management can be used to drive the design of the function and CMDB. It is clear that the implementations of solutions such as Service Desk...
[November 22, 2004, 23:00]
