{"id":124,"date":"2006-06-14T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/managed-objects-bscm-vcmdb-cmdb360\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T15:35:31","slug":"managed-objects-bscm-vcmdb-cmdb360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/managed-objects-bscm-vcmdb-cmdb360\/","title":{"rendered":"Managed Objects BSCM, vCMDB, CMDB360*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managed Objects has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-managed-objects-announces-cmdb360-most-complete-independent-solution-\/2006\/06\/14\/1682948.htm\">announced<\/a> a CMDB product (or repackaging) today.  I can&#8217;t tell from the PR and web information if it&#8217;s something new or repackaging of what they were calling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managedobjects.com\/solutions\/bscm.jsp\">Business Service Configuration Manager (BSCM)<\/a>, a vCMDB, or if it&#8217;s something completely new.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d certainly be interested in learning more on what&#8217;s behind the scenes and how they&#8217;ll integrate\/enable process areas such as change, config, release, incident, etc. or how they federate and reconcile (metadata, schemas, etc.).  Has Managed Objects been invited to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsmwatch.com\/news\/article.php\/3608331\">CMDB Federation Consortium<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In general for any\/all vendor CMDB solutions, how does one assess time to value, ease of deployment, integration or federation?  What perspective is applied, the executives, the tools group, or the IT operations\/support staff? Is this something that industry practioners should create guidelines for?  A checklist or assessment rules of thumb?  No IT environment is the same and they all generally have their fair share of COTS and custom applications\/software and integration challenges (technology, politics, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed Objects has announced a CMDB product (or repackaging) today. I can&#8217;t tell from the PR and web information if it&#8217;s something new or repackaging of what they were calling Business Service Configuration Manager (BSCM), a vCMDB, or if it&#8217;s something completely new. I&#8217;d certainly be interested in learning more on what&#8217;s behind the scenes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cmdb","7":"category-itil","8":"category-itsm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}