Planview OpenSuite for CMDBf

Seamlessly integrate heterogeneous CMDBs with Planview Enterprise

Planview OpenSuite for CMDBf allows you to:

• Benefit from the first portfolio management integration to the emerging open CMDBf standard
• Integrate portfolio management systems to autonomous, heterogeneous, and distributed federated databases
• Enable the ITIL-driven trend toward Service Portfolio Management
• Reduce the cost of ITIL implementation
• Bring together Portfolio Management and Business Service Management

The CMDB ensures consistent operations within incident management, problem management, change management, configuration management, asset management, and service impact management. The reality is that most organizations do not have just one CMDB from just one vendor. The various CMDBs need to talk with each other; this interoperability is called federation and the emerging standard for this interoperability is CMDBf.

Integrate Heterogeneous Systems of Record to Enable TCO

Planview is the first Project Portfolio Management (PPM) vendor to provide support for CMDBf. With Planview OpenSuite for CMDBf, you can seamlessly integrate Planview Enterprise — the market-leading system of record for work and resource management — with a federated CMDB — the system of record for the IT infrastructure — and achieve CMDB interoperability.

Enabling the ITIL-Driven Trend toward Services Portfolio Management

An addition to ITIL V3 is Service Portfolio Management, a process for managing the service portfolio and viewing services in terms of the business value they provide. The Service Portfolio Management (SPM) module of Planview Enterprise enables you to assess the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of services, assets, and applications and make decisions on what services to outsource, retire, enhance, and invest in. Planview OpenSuite for CMDBf provides the most current infrastructure data to Planview SPM to update the topology of each service so IT managers can better assess the TCO. Having clear insight into the business value, technical value, and costs of services facilitates improved decision making and contributes to optimization of the service portfolio.

Optimize Your Services Portfolio

With Planview OpenSuite for CMDBf, you can keep your service portfolio up-to-date with the current infrastructure environment, seamlessly initiate projects to produce the desired changes to the current environment, and truly deliver against the ITIL guidelines for IT Service Management.