by Robert Hansen | Oct 5, 2015 | CMDB Data Quality
By Rob Hansen, Blazent’s Director of Professional Services Today’s IT organizations are tasked with determining and understanding the underlying IT components that constitute a business service. It’s a daunting and ongoing task because each business service relies on...
by Blazent | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality
Recently, our son complained of pain in his leg, so we took him to the pediatrician. She isolated the source of the pain but couldn’t make a further diagnosis. We were referred to an orthopedic surgeon for X-rays, but when those proved inconclusive, we were sent for...
by Blazent | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Intelligence, Data Management, IT Data Intelligence
Enterprise IT is currently experiencing what Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Vice President Dennis Drogseth describes as a massive, “oceanic” shift. The days of IT serving as a reactive, back-office cost center shrouded in obscure acronyms are over....
by Blazent | Sep 10, 2015 | CMDB Data Quality
“Bad data.” In modern IT operations, those are the two most dangerous words you can hear. Historically, industry analysts have found that at any given moment, up to 40% of an average enterprise’s Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is inaccurate. A...
by Blazent | Aug 13, 2015 | Blazent Platform, Blazent Products, Blog, CMDB Data Quality, IT Data Intelligence
If you’ve already purchased the ServiceNow service management platform, congratulations: you’ve made an excellent choice. ServiceNow is an excellent platform that includes powerful workflow, intuitive applications and enterprise level scalability needed to meet the...
by Blazent | Jul 7, 2015 | CMDB Data Quality, Data Intelligence, IT Data Intelligence
Defining True CMDB Data Quality In enterprise environments consisting of 40 to 50 million records across hundreds of hybrid sources, data quality is not a buzzword—it is a strict operational requirement. True CMDB quality ensures that all Configuration Items...