CMDB vs CSDM — Scope and Purpose Explained
Although often used interchangeably, CMDB and CSDM serve fundamentally different purposes. Confusing the two is one of the main reasons 75% of the CMDB initiatives fail. What Is the CMDB? The Configuration Management Database [...]
How to Operationalize CSDM5? Transition from CMDB Burden to meaningful Business Value
Industry figures consistently show that only about 25% of organisations realise meaningful value from their CMDB investments. In most cases, the CMDB data model is implemented from a predominantly technical perspective. As technology stacks grow [...]
CSDM5 On One Page
Not everybody has time to read a long white paper or go through endless PowerPoint slides. This article provides a knowledge article that describes the key artefacts and explains how to classify and govern [...]
Drift Management: Why It Matters, Who Needs It, and How to Get It Right
IT environments rarely break because of one big dramatic event. More often, they erode slowly: a configuration flag quietly flipped, a firewall rule added “just for testing,” a VM resized without documentation, a registry key [...]
Change and Drift Mngt in 2025
Despite rapid advances in cloud computing, DevOps, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code, many organizations still struggle with a fundamental question: What actually constitutes a “change” in 2025 — and what does not? Is every drift detected, to [...]
You want a better CSDM, for less money, and you want it now?
That is possible by making the contents of the CSDM almost Zero-touch. You can import a product-agnostic Service Portfolio which does not have to be updated whenever you change a product. If you link IT [...]