Another problem with autodiscovery www.erp4it.com Was discussing autodiscovery with someone the other day who pointed out that regardless of the accuracy of an...
Charlie, The very definition of Configuration Management is a process that allows you to keep under control your CIs, which clearly means that the CMDB needs...
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Dec 4, 2005 11:12 am
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That's where you need to cross check your information from you helpdesk (i.e. what applications / services are users asking questions about), and login...
Hi Robert, I'm talking about CIs that were approved at the time, but whose business value has diminished over time. What is the process by which they are ...
Yes, this would be useful but not sufficient - it could eliminate some CIs from consideration. Login information unfortunately must be logged, and not all...
Charles, Yes, batch jobs are a good point. In a non-mainframe environment, I guess the equivalent would be data flows (pushes and pulls) between applications. ...
Data flows = distributed batch jobs in my terminology, usually - unless they are truly message-based and event driven. Lots of distributed batch schedulers out...
Has anyone worked with Datamatics, a dual-shore BPO outsourcer? They have done a significant amount of work in ETL, Filenet services and AP process improvement...
Charlie, According to ITIL, it would be the Change Management process that identifies the impact of a change that makes a CI obsolete. According to the reason,...
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Yes, I think we're a long ways from anything approaching maturity here. In particular, I don't think that the slow erosion of a business requirement resulting...
CMDB needs to capture and correlate both concrete CIs (infrastructure and application domain) and abstract CIs ( business process, business service etc.) ...
Dependency management: the foundation of IT governance (To be published in <http://www.architectureandgovernance.com/> Architecture and Governance - reprinted...
Charlie - Spot on! ... Sometime early 2005 I saw a presentation by someone from Hewlett Packard. He pointed out that today HP is the accumulation of DEC,...
What are the pre-eminent organizations, reference books, and other resources addressing enterprise IT security? I have heard the ITIL security volume was not...
Sadly there are no good books that address enterprise IT security. There are either books for coders or those attempting to acheive CISSP certification. The...
HI, Ok, ITIL is a framework for IT Service Management. I'm looking for IT Infrastrucuture Management Best Practices and already know the MOf Operating...
eTOM is a framework developed by the telecom industry. That being said, all the telephony companies I have worked with have adopted ITIL, or are not using a...
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James, did you consider any of the following: + BS/ISO 17799 (parts 1 and 2) - the international code of practice and certification for information security...
Oops, missed the kicker: In my more than eighteen years at the Federal Reserve, much has surprised me, but nothing more than the remarkable ability of our ...
Charlie, With your permission, the MPO like to extend this invitation to your discussion group members, as they may have an interesting perspective to share...
Back in April 2005, IASA, the International Association of Software Architects, formed a working group focused on IT architectural "Foundations & Taxonomy"...
Greetings all, I have my first review draft done for my book. If you are interested in reviewing please drop me a note. I'm going to start posting excerpts ...
I would love to review the draft. Feedback on the list - Be sure to provide something even more concise for managers to read. You have framed this issue most...
Charlie, Your principles are good although some of them are VERY difficult to implement given the current state of best practices combined with the typical...
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GM and SEI standards activity re: outsourcing Longtime followers of this blog may remember that GM CIO Ralph Szygenda's call for "ERP for IT" was the first...
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