Novell myCMDB
Get more value from your CMDB project—increase your CMDB's usability and accuracy
Features and Benefits
- Gain better visibility and insight into any CMDB project
- myCMDB combines Web 2.0 and social networking principles into a simple community-based environment where users can more easily interact with CMDB data—and other CMDB users as well. Using Facebook™ like interactivity along with a Google™ like context-based search mechanism, myCMDB transforms the CMDB into a more valuable, user-friendly environment. With myCMDB, the CMDB is easier to view, navigate, update, and report upon allowing IT organizations to realize more value from their CMDB investments.
- Broaden CMDB usage across your enterprise
- There are a number of IT and business users who gain value from the CMDB—if only they would use it! Because myCMDB significantly improves usability and accessibility, CMDB usage goes up across the enterprise. And when more users access the CMDB, more users contribute to it. This is essential in order to capture the "unwritten knowledge" about your IT infrastructure that typically remains undocumented.
- Ensure greater accuracy of your CMDB data
- When CMDB usage goes up and more users contribute to the CMDB, it naturally becomes a more accurate representation of your actual IT infrastructure—much in the same way end-users drive data accuracy in repositories like Wikipedia™. myCMDB also incorporates a number of controls and safeguards so you can easily ensure that only the updates you authorize make their way into the actual CMDB system.
- Lowers risks associated with changes to the IT infrastructure
- Up to 60 percent of all planned IT infrastructure changes fail because organizations do not completely understand the impact of a proposed change before implementation. A CMDB significantly mitigates this risk, but only if the CMDB itself is an accurate reflection of the actual IT environment. myCMDB delivers the essential capabilities to help ensure greater CMDB accuracy—for any new or existing CMDB project.
- Improve the IT change management process
- myCMDB delivers built-in governance so that it's easy to ensure IT configuration compliance in your production environment. And because myCMDB works with any change management system, it's easy to ensure existing change control systems stay in-sync with your CMDB—and vice-versa.
- Enhance any CMDB project or technology
- myCMDB works with virtually any CMDB technology—so whether you're simply trying to get a better handle on your existing BMC Atrium™ environment, or whether you're trying to more effectively visualize and manage a complex cloud-based IT infrastructure, myCMDB gives you a complete modeling and analysis environment so you always know what's going on.
- Increase CMDB ROI to the business
- Keep your CMDB project on the right track with myCMDB. Many of today's CMDB projects fail because it's too hard to keep the CMDB accurate and up-to-date. Too much data spread around the enterprise coupled with too few people working to keep the CMDB updated is a recipe for a failed project. With myCMDB's built-in community-based environment, visualizing, analyzing, and updating CMDB data is fast and easy—so CMDB data stays more accurate, risks are lowered, and IT organizations realize the full value of their CMDB investments.
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