CMDB in Excel

[Guerino1]

Hello Tralala,

I agree with your answer.

Unfortunately, too many people in IT will "claim" that they know how to scope their implementations to just build the basics for a CMDB. Most times, they don't even understand that all they're really building is an Asset Inventory/Register.

Also, if your enterprise is not in the business of building and selling CMDBs, why in god's name would you clutter and burden your enterprise with an undertaking that will only help to drown your IT staff.

Very simply, a good CMDB, done correctly will act as the hinge-pin to all of your other processes. However, to do it correctly is not a simple thing. We know, because we build a CMDB that is easy to use and we can say with experience that, while it is easy to use, it was not easy to design and implement. It took real experts with many years of very powerful domain experience to do so. Most enterprises don't have this and we find resources that have never undertaken such an endeavor trying to build a yellow brick road to Oz, one random brick at a time and having no clue where Oz is or what it should really look like.

Enough of me being on my soap box! Time to get down.

My best to you.

Frank
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[Globis]