Your ServiceNow Go-Live Happened. Your CMDB Didn't.
If your ServiceNow go-live delivered incident, change and request but left the configuration management database (CMDB) …
Replacing The Configuration Management Lead Cost $100,000 To Fix
The previous configuration management lead understood how the CMDB connected to incident, change and problem management, …
A Sarbanes-Oxley Audit Found Applications ServiceNow Never Flagged
An internal compliance team ran its scheduled audit of the CMDB and found that most business applications needing to be …
CMDB Health Dashboards: Making The Three Metrics Mean Something
ServiceNow's CMDB health dashboard scores the configuration management database (CMDB) on three metrics: completeness, c …
CMDB Health Assessment: What It Involves And What It Risks
A CMDB health assessment carries very little risk, and the reason is mechanical rather than reassuring. It reads your co …
CMDB Audit In ServiceNow: What To Check When Data Can’t Be Trusted
Run an audit against a CMDB that hasn't been checked against reality in a while, and three things turn up almost immedia …
IT And Cloud Cost Optimisation: How To Reduce Total Cost Of Ownership
Most cost-reduction programmes cut a fixed percentage from every IT budget line and hope nobody notices the difference. …
The 3 Cs of a CMDB: Completeness, Correctness and Compliance
The 3Cs of a CMDB Most people in IT service management have heard the 3 Cs of a Configuration Management Database. Compl …
CMDB AI Readiness Assessment: Is Your Estate Ready To Support AI?
Feed an AI copilot a service map with a duplicate configuration item in it, and it won't ask for clarification. It picks …
CMDB: The Cyber Insurance Risk You Don't See Until It's Too Late
The breach isn’t the first crisis. The inventory is. Most senior teams only discover their “asset problem” when somethin …
