Topic: How to adopt Configuration Management best practices

Date:
Wednesday,
November 28, 2007

Time:
11 am Pacific Standard Time
2 pm Eastern Standard Time
7 pm GMT Standard Time

Duration:
1 Hour

Featured Speakers:

Paul Burns
Senior Analyst, EMA

Michele McFadden
Leader of Product Management,
Numara Software, Inc.

Practical Configuration Management:
CMDB You Can Do Right Now!

The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) helps bring together processes and technologies across the entire IT organization:

• Change and configuration management processes depend on the CMDB to help ensure configurations are compliant with organizational and standards-based policies.  
• Incident and problem management processes utilize it to speed problem solving through integration with the service desk.
• Asset management systems may link with it or depend on it for detailed asset information.  

Hence, the CMDB is becoming a technology keystone for improving efficiencies, enabling service management and bridging organizational silos across IT.

However, many organizations have found the CMDB to be out of reach due to the costs of implementation, ongoing administration and maintenance, as well as the need for additional training and expertise.

In this informative 1-hour Webinar, EMA Senior Analyst Paul Burns and Michele McFadden, Leader of Product Management for Numara Software, Inc.,  will explain how organizations of any size can adopt Configuration Management best practices.  Topics covered will include:

• CMDB and configuration management
• Deployment benefits
• The need for an integrated system
• Requirements for a low overhead CMDB system
• Streamlining time to value
• And more …

This is a must attend Webinar for pragmatic IT organizations that are considering deploying a configuration management solution along with a CMDB.