While CMDB adoption rates are increasing rapidly across a wide spectrum of companies today -- data inaccuracy, poor usability, and lack of widespread usage remain critical inhibitors to broad CMDB adoption and are the leading causes of CMDB project failure.

For CMDB projects to be successful, they'll need to be absolutely accurate and trusted repositories. For this to happen, we'll need much wider user adoption across IT and the business - this, in turn will require new levels in usability and capability to ensure users get the rich value available from the CMDB.

Managed Objects myCMDB™ solves CMDB data accuracy and accessibility issues incumbent with today's CMDB implementations. By integrating principles of Web 2.0 and social networking into a new web-based application, myCMDB delivers role-based "communities" where users can more easily and effectively view and interact with CMDB data - and other CMDB users as well.

Each CMDB community consists of logically related CMDB data - grouped by function, role, class, or geography. IT or business users subscribe to CMDB communities - usually based on their specific business responsibility. Within each community, users can quickly and intuitively search and report on CMDB information - leveraging ad hoc or bookmarked queries, as well as pre-defined reports that can be launched with a few mouse clicks. Community-defined governance gives basic users needed access capabilities while ensuring that actual CMDB updates are performed only by authorized personnel. And best of all, myCMDB works with a number of CMDB systems including Managed Objects CMDB360™ -- making myCMDB a perfect complement to any Configuration Management System (CMS).

By combining Facebook™ interactivity, Wikipedia™ information quality management, and Google™ search-model capabilities -- the CMDB is transformed into a more valuable, user-friendly environment which, in turn, drives greater usage across the enterprise. And when more users contribute to the CMDB, it naturally becomes a more accurate representation of the actual IT infrastructure.

myCMDB makes the entire CMDB user experience more intuitive, and more interactive. Within myCMDB's sophisticated new modelling environment - myWorkspace --users can analyze and manipulate CMDB data - without affecting critical production configurations. By combining myCMDB's built-in analytics, like impact and dependency analysis, with its broad range of new pre-defined reports, CMDB users have new and compelling ways to get even more value from their CMDB investment.

• Easy to define user communities provide meaningful views of CMDB data
• Role-based user profiles personalize the community experience
• Intelligent, refine-able, and repeatable search to quickly retrieve CMDB information
• Enhanced data input through pre-defined templates and forms
• Integrated CIM (Common Information Model) and policies enforce governance
• Pre-defined, community specific reporting and analytics - or add your own
• Modeling environment for impact and dependency analysis
• Integrates easily with existing change control systems
• A common platform for ready communication with other community members

Managed Objects myCMDB is part of a suite of solutions - each integrated into a common platform and built around a robust 3-tier architecture.

With over 70 federation points, Managed Objects™ pervasive integration lets you integrate virtually any IT or business data source into your myCMDB community - so, whether you're using CMDB360, another CMDB, or as part of a complete CMS system, myCMDB will work seamlessly.

And because each Managed Objects solution is fully integrated into our common platform you're assured that myCMDB works with any of our Managed Objects CMDB or BSM solutions - whether it's Discovery, Application Impact, or Service Level Management.

myCMDB is the first social networking application designed for IT and the CMDB environments. As such, it offers a unique, revolutionary way for users to interface with their IT infrastructure -- and each other. myCMDB delivers these important benefits:

• Greatly enhances CMDB usability
• Facilitates broad CMDB adoption across IT and business users
• Users see immediate value and benefit - they want to contribute
• Ensures CMDB data accuracy and qualit
• Increases CMDB ROI to the business

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