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White Papers

Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI

July 28, 2008 12:00am PDT

Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB) initiative, this Enterprise Management...

Provided by: ASG Software Solutions

Webcasts

How to Develop Your CMDB Project's ROI

September 18, 2008 12:00am PDT

While long-term ROI claims from enterprise customers oftentimes can exceed up to 400% or more, many IT executives are struggling with making initial ROI assessments for their Configuration...

Provided by: ASG Software Solutions

White Papers

A Board Room View: Understanding Your CMDB Project

July 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

This white paper is targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) initiative. The goal of...

Provided by: Enterprise Management Associates

White Papers

How ASG's MetaCMDB Strategy Enables More Effective Business Service Management

June 24, 2008 12:00am PDT

ASG has a distinctive CMDB offering that can enable superior service management, as well as application and service lifecycle management. ASG's CMDB system ties together the monitoring of...

Provided by: Enterprise Management Associates

White Papers

The Future of IT in a Flat World: CMDBs, Automation, and the IT Value Chain

October 13, 2008 12:00am PDT

Using automation, IT operations can emulate the domestic supply chain's cost containment successes. At the same time, by recognizing that its own struggles are mirrored in the global supply chain,...

Provided by: ASG Software Solutions

Webcasts

Designing & Implementing an Actionable Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

April 25, 2006 12:00am PDT

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...

Provided by: BladeLogic

Whitepapers

CMDB in 5 Steps

November 20, 2006 12:00am PST

CMDB in 5 steps is a project guide for implementing a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Most companies have a huge number of CIs. Knowing where those are, managing authorisation processes...

Provided by: iET Solutions

White Papers

Discovery and the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

October 1, 2008 12:00am PDT

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...

Provided by: CA

White Papers

CA CMDB Gains Momentum

October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

This paper addresses the advances CA has made with its CMDB offering through product features, integration with its broader IT management portfolio and its integration of the CA Cohesion product....

Provided by: Enterprise Management Associates

White Papers

Choosing the Right CMDB: Smart Considerations for Strategic Decision Makers

June 25, 2008 12:00am PDT

A forward-looking Configuaration Management Database (CMDB) does more than keep an organization's IT operations running. It draws clear connections between IT components and business services,...

Provided by: ASG Software Solutions

Webcasts

Jumpstart Your CMDB and CMS Deployments With Industry Best Practices

September 29, 2008 12:00am PDT

While CMDB and CMS (Configuration Management System) deployments are beginning to gather steam, there remains a lot of confusion and uncertainty about how to optimize time to value. Much of this...

Provided by: BMC Software

Webcasts

Enterprise Management Associates: Avoid CMDB Failure

July 22, 2009 12:00am PDT

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to avoid Configuration Management Database (CMDB) failure and achieve operational efficiency. For many organizations, the terms CMDB and failure are...

Provided by: EMC

Webcasts

Understanding Federated CMDB's and How to Take Advantage of Real-Time, Automatic Discovery to Continuously Populate Them

March 14, 2006 12:00am PST

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...

Provided by: nLayers

Blog Post

Sanity check: Seven hot acronyms IT pros are talking about

February 3, 2008 11:44pm PST

IT professionals adore acronyms and shorthand. That's part of the reason why normal people think IT pros are speaking a foreign language when we talk amongst ourselves. If you want to "be in the...

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Blog Post

10 questions on managing business technology: An interview with Bill Keyworth

March 8, 2010 9:16am PST

Bill Keyworth pioneered the development of IT service management as a means of maximizing business value. In this interview, he discusses that experience and shares his views on various tech and...

Blog Post

ITIL: What goes in a Configuration Management Plan?

December 12, 2011 4:30am PST

Configuration management is one of the few processes that overarch all other process and service lifecycle phases in ITIL V3. Wthout it, the effectiveness of the rest of your processes will be in...

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White Papers

Novell myCMDB Solution Overview

March 1, 2009 12:00am PST

The value of a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is commonly accepted across a wide spectrum of IT professionals today, especially as a vehicle to lower the risk of outages caused by...

Provided by: Novell

Webcasts

Atrium Core Implementation Best Practices

June 30, 2009 12:00am PDT

The presenter will provide best practices for the CMDB Usage focusing on common CMDB use cases and deployment sessions, CMDB Implementation lessons learned and Features/Demo of Atrium CMDB 7.5.

Provided by: BMC Software

Whitepapers

How HP Balances Openness and Automation with Its Active CMDB

November 7, 2006 12:00am PST

This white paper from Enterprise Management Associates discusses trends in the emerging Configuration Management Database (CMDB) market. It explains why the establishment of a CMDB, which is a...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

White Papers

Myths of the Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB)

April 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

There are many things to consider when implementing a CMDB. The 13 myths described in this white paper, along with the variations described for each, have proven over time to impede the efforts of...

Provided by: CA