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Deploy the open, federated IBM Tivoli Change & Configuration Management Database: Integrate and extend the value of existing processes

Overview To better manage your business, you need more than traditional IT management tools that focus on monitoring only certain types of IT resources. IBM IT Service Management solutions, with the IBM Tivoli® Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) as their platform, can help your IT organization optimize the services it delivers to your business.

Download this IBM white paper to learn more about the Tivoli CCMDB platform for ITSM and how you can benefit from its innovations in:

Application discovery
Data federation
Application integration

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2006	Downloads	61
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Knowledge and Data Management, Database Management, Service Level Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Strategic Planning, IT Reliability, SLA, Sarbanes-Oxley, ITIL, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

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