The CMDB Imperative: How to Realize the Dream and Avoid the Nightmares

The CMDB Imperative presents a start-to-finish implementation methodology for CMDBs.

Deploy a CMDB to increase efficiency in the IT Service Management environment.

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The CMDB Imperative presents a start-to-finish implementation methodology for CMDBs that works. It describes how the CMDB is shifting to the superior configuration management system (CMS).

Expert CMDB industry analyst Glenn O’Donnell and leading-edge architect and practitioner Carlos Casanova first review the drivers behind a CMDB and the technical, economic, cultural, and political obstacles to success.

Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of organisations, the authors present indispensable guidance on architecting and customising CMDB solutions. They’ll guide you through planning, implementation, transitioning into production, day-to-day operation and maintenance, and much more.

Coverage includes:

• Defining the tasks and activities associated with configuration management,
• Understanding the CMDB’s role in ITIL and the relationship between CMDBs and ITIL^®v3’s CMS,
• Building software models that accurately represent each entity in your IT environment,
• Ensuring information accuracy via change management and automated discovery,
• Understanding the state of the CMDB market and selling the CMDB within your organisation,
• Creating federated CMDB architectures that successfully balance autonomy with centralised control,
• Planning a deployment strategy that sets appropriate priorities and reflects a realistic view of your organisation’s maturity,
• Integrating systems and leveraging established and emerging standards,
• Previewing the future of the CMDB/CMS and how it will be impacted by key trends such as virtualization, SOA, mobility, convergence, and 'flexi-sourcing'.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Provides a start-to-finish methodology for implementing a CMDB, cutting out lots of wasted time and hassle.
• Covers the key information you need to understand in order to grasp the concepts behind CMDBs and CMSs in general. Giving you the knowledge to succeed.
• Written by two industry experts, thus ensuring this book is both practical and to-the-point, as they know the information that needs to be included from their vast experience.

Here are the contents of this book.

Authors: Glenn O'Donnell and Carlos Casanova
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0137008376
ISBN 13: 9780137008377
Pages: 368
Format: Softcover
Published Date: March 2009
Availability: In Stock

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