Tech Horizons: ASG's metaCMDB, The Technology That Rocks

June 16, 2009 | Updated: July 9, 2009
Tech Horizons: ASG's metaCMDB,
The Technology That Rocksby Jean-Pierre Garbanifor Vendor Strategy Professionals
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June 16, 2009 | Updated: July 9, 2009
Tech Horizons: ASG's metaCMDB, The Technology That RocksHow To Optimize Your Path To A Configuration Management Systemby Jean-Pierre Garbaniwith Glenn O'Donnell and Edward Radcliffe
Executive SummaryThe challenging business climate is an opportunity for many enterprises to revisit how IT supports the need for improved business productivity. Better, more efficient IT is often required. This streamlining of IT demands better and more accurate IT management processes in order to reduce waste. This is predicated on a better understanding of the way business services are run and delivered. To that end, the concept of a configuration management database (CMDB) as a central figure for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and business service management (BSM) has captured everyone's attention. As many organizations found out, implementing a CMDB is a difficult project and often an ill-defined one. Allen Systems Group's (ASG's) metaCMDB - based on Rochade, its leading metadata repository - brings a unique technology to the world of CMDB. The promise is an easier, stepped implementation that clears the pathway for creating a federated configuration management system (CMS) as defined by ITIL.
table of Contents NOTES & RESOURCES2 Tech Horizons: Evaluating Emerging Forrester interviewed ASG for this report.Technologies4 What's A CMDB And Why Do We Need One Related Research DocumentsAnyway? "A Federated CMDB Remains Distant, But Start Implementing A CMDB Now"June 30, 2008The Configuration Management System Concept "The BSM Success Of ASG" 6 April 2, 2008 The Potential CMS Market7 The ASG Solution "CMDB: Get Ready, Get Set, Go!"October 1, 2007Evaluating The ASG Difference15 The ASG Solution Is On Fire17 Supplemental Material
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TECH HORIZONS: EVALUATING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIESVendor strategy professionals are looking for the next step in broadening and expanding their markets; enterprise growth is not an option but a necessity. However, pointing an enterprise in a new technology direction presents a risk. Forrester has defined four major criteria that signal 1the ability of a technology to be widely adopted by the market. Based on these criteria, Forrester has developed a series of questions aimed at better understanding the fundamental technical and economic parameters of a new solution (see Figure 1). These questions help provide answers to the criteria for market adoption and also look at the viability of the innovators and vendors that are bringing this new solution to market. They aim to:
· Better define the potential market. Based on a market matrix using the size of the enterprise and the activity in which potential clients are engaged, these questions create the filter that we will apply to broadly define the target market. Hypotheses as to how many of the target enterprises will eventually adopt the technology and what will represent the technology's sell-by date - the time at which this new technology will itself be obsolete or transformed - also help us further refine the potential market.
· Explore Forrester's adoption criteria. In these questions, we examine the process that the technology will improve, its criticality in the enterprise, and the technical and economic advantages that an enterprise will gain from using this process improvement. We then look at the implementation factors, vested interests, and implementation speed.
· Look at the enterprises bringing this technology to market. Adopting a critical process improvement is... [download for more]