Your CMDB Mantra: Simplified and practical steps for planning, building & implementing Your #CMDB in @ServiceNow

The CMDB in ServiceNow is the Foundation! Like a foundation of a house, or any other construction built to last. Any IT Service Management initiative, especially with ServiceNow product should and must start with a CMDB blueprint model on paper, just like an architecture design for an important structure to be created.

It’s important to note that this book is not intended as a replacement for any existing ServiceNow documentation and official wiki pages, but, rather as a supplement source of information gathered over the last decade, based on experience and expert’s knowledge.

Using this book, you will learn how to maximize the value and minimize the risks of investing in consolidating your data needed to run your enterprise onto a single trusted source of truth called the CMDB. Top 10 values you can expect from this book:

1. More than 187 diagrams and colorful illustrations to assist you in the design and decisions
2. The steps needed to organize the design workshops and document your conceptual CMDB blueprint model on paper
3. Process guides to help you put in place your CMDB governance and processes
4. Asset management commentaries to make a clear distinction between assets and configuration items.
5. Related ITIL processes, how they interact, and make use of the CMDB
6. How to define, and assign roles and responsibilities in ServiceNow
7. A detailed blueprint of the ServiceNow data dictionary
8. A list of step by step activities to improve the configuration maturity
9. A detailed roadmap and strategy plan to plan, and build the CMDB
10. A list of configuration metrics and reports to implement

Using our methodology described along this book, you will be able to achieve the following goals:
- Define your business objective by implementing a CMDB
- Schedule and execute appropriate design workshops
- Build a project plan and assign the right resources
- Document a roadmap and strategy to meet your business objectives
- Design Your CMDB blueprint on paper and then construct it in ServiceNow
- Identify what to include, how deep and how far to go by phases
- Design the right processes and implement Governance controls
- Easy steps to maintain and operate your CMDB once you go live
- Resolve common issues with discovery, and integrations
- Implement the right metrics and report strategy