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Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Connect the dots: Real-time visibility into all IT and non-IT assets and their relationships.

Break down data silos for good. With OTOBO’s integrated Configuration Management Database (CMDB), you’ll have a unified view of all relevant assets – configuration items (CI) and their relationships.

Whether you’re delivering complex IT services, managing IT infrastructure, offering product support, or overseeing machine or vehicle fleets: All teams access current asset data and make better-informed decisions. Lay the foundation for risk-reduced change management, automated service processes, compliance, and a successful audit.

INTEGRATED CMDB

Benefits

  • Holistic view of IT infrastructure

    Get a single, unified view of your entire IT landscape with our CMDB, which delivers real-time insights into all configuration items (CI) and their interdependencies.

  • Real-time transparency

    Ditch data silos for good and gain real-time visibility to supercharge your service delivery.

  • Improve data quality

    Up-to-date, cross-process consistent data forms the basis of better decisions.

  • More efficient change processes

    Streamline change management for (IT) services and systems, and minimize downtime risks at the same time.

  • Faster problem resolution and troubleshooting

    Pinpoint and fix issues in record time with instant visibility into the dependencies and connections of your entire asset landscape.

  • Improved service quality and customer satisfaction

    Manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs) more effectively with a detailed view of the underlying IT infrastructure.

  • Enhanced risk management

    Head off operational disruptions by spotting risks early, evaluating their impact, and taking proactive measures to contain them.

  • Compliance and auditability

    Ensure audit-ready compliance with a tamper-proof record of all (IT) resources and configurations, courtesy of our Configuration Management Database.

CAPABILITIES

Open Source Configuration Management Database

Centralize and simplify asset management with OTOBO’s Configuration Management Database. Our Service Asset & Configuration Management solution empowers you to pinpoint critical service assets, map relationships between assets, configs, and services, and drive informed decision-making for top-notch, dependable, and efficient service delivery.

Quickly onboard Configuration Items (CIs)

Rapidly deploy with out-of-the-box CI categories and object classes

Jumpstart your CI creation with pre-built and customizable main categories and object types for top assets like Location, Infrastructure, Network, Software, Contract, Workplace, and more. Leverage best practices, cut down on setup time, and dive in immediately.

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Craft CI definitions with the YAML editor – flexible and intuitive configuration

Streamline complex CI definitions using dynamic fields in user-friendly templates and masks. The YAML editor lets you effortlessly adapt class and object definitions to fit your requirements, adding headers, multi-column forms, customized field sequences, or read-only fields as needed.

Import & Export – Automated Population of the Configuration Management Database

Populate your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with data from multiple sources, such as auto-discovery, inventory, asset management, directory services, and product databases.

Use web services and the REST/SOAP interface to import and continuously sync data. Regardless of whether you’re managing physical or logical infrastructure CIs, pre-defined CI classes make it easy to quickly import and establish relationships.

Configuration Management Database – Import & Export

Track CI dependencies and connections within your Configuration Management Database

Link Configuration Items (CIs)

Get a unified view of your IT landscape and boost transparency for your support teams. The Configuration Management Database lets you easily map relationships between a CI and other CIs, users, locations, incidents, service requests, problem tickets, changes, knowledge base articles, or services – with minimal effort.

Configuration Management Database – Link CIs
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Visualize relationships between Configuration Items (CIs)

Get a clear view of CI relationships with a simple, hierarchical tree structure. This gives your Service Desk team real-time visibility into CI operational status, enabling them to predict and prevent outages, and take proactive steps to minimize downtime.

Configuration Management Database – Data-driven decision making

Proactively plan IT infrastructure changes and mitigate risks

Make informed change plans for CIs using up-to-date info and account for all dependencies to reduce error risks.

Configuration Management Database – plan Changes
Configuration Management Database – data silos

Break down local data silos

Decentralized systems often house redundant and inconsistent asset data, making it inaccessible across processes. Break down these local data silos and process gaps.

OTOBO’s Configuration Management Database brings together IT and non-IT asset information from diverse sources into a single, unified view, providing transparent and process-spanning access for your teams.

Optimize Asset Lifecycle Management

From procurement to retirement – manage the status and track changes to IT and non-IT assets across their entire lifecycle – directly within OTOBO.

Document not only financial transaction data to illustrate the value of your assets at each lifecycle stage, but also the complete history of all changes, outages, or contracts related to the assets. You’ll be perfectly prepared for the next audit and your reporting needs.

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SCALABLE PLATFORM

Integrated Open-Source Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

IT Service Management (ITSM)

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The integrated Open Source Configuration Management Database (CMDB) provides you with cross-process and real-time insights into the current status of your IT infrastructure. It is tightly integrated with other ITSM disciplines, such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Knowledge Management, and Service Level Management.

➞ Additional ITSM capabilities

Customer Service Management (CSM)

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The integrated Configuration Management Database (CMDB) empowers your customer service and support by providing product data, contracts, or assets that you need to deliver exceptional service through your customer service processes.

➞ Additional CSM capabilities

Enterprise Service Management (ESM)

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OTOBO offers a comprehensive service management platform to manage all enterprise services in a unified solution. A current and centrally available data basis serves as the foundation to coordinate requests, processes, and resources more efficiently and resolve employee and customer service requests faster.

➞ Additional ESM capabilities

SERVICE EXCELLENCE

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