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Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Software

Configuration Management Database

What is Configuration Management Database Software?

CMDB tools enable effective configuration management, maintaining an accurate source of useful information about the makeup of an organization’s IT environment. These tools provide a repository of configuration records, providing details about configuration items’ attributes throughout their lifecycle. Common attributes include an item’s name, version, license expiry date, location, supplier, SLA, and owner. CMDB tools can also record the relationships between configuration items. This enables IT to see how different items are connected to one another and what their dependencies are allowing effective root cause analysis, assessing impact of changes before a new deployment, and so on. While CMDB tools often form part of broader ITSM suites, these tools retain a distinct domain. CMDB is not about maintaining an inventory of assets, but instead to serve as a tool for other service management processes.

Common Features

  • License Management
  • Dependency Mapping
  • Integrations
  • Auditing
  • Auto-Discovery
  • Role-Based Access
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Assign Dispositions
  • CI Attribute Detailing
  • Predictive Analytics

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Top Configuration Management Database Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10

ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB) gives you crucial information about your digital services and the infrastructure that supports them. It enables your key operational processes, helping you to predict, prevent, and resolve service outages, minimize the risk of changes, and respond quickly to end users. And, as CMDB evolves seamlessly into ServiceNow Service Graph—the ServiceNow next-generation system of record—it becomes even more mission critical.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

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Device42

Device42

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Device42 is the most comprehensive agentless discovery system for Hybrid IT available today. Device42 can continuously discover, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, providing accurate views of your IT ecosystem. Device42 intelligently groups discovered workloads by application affinities, dramatically reducing the effort required to create move groups, capturing all communications. Customers in more than 60 countries including Global 2000 clients and Systems Integrators use these capabilities as they manage and modernize their IT infrastructure and application landscapes and adopt DevOps practices.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Freshworks

Freshservice

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Your service desk software is supposed to make supporting users easier, not harder. Since Freshservice is 100% on the cloud, there is nothing to install, maintain or babysit. Login from just about any device, anywhere, and deliver exceptional IT service to your users all day, every day.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
BMC Software

BMC Helix CMDB

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB) provides a single, consolidated reference of landscape and service data to support business decision making. BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB) consolidates landscape and service information from multiple sources into a single, high-quality rep. BMC Helix CMDB is an end-to-end solution that processes disparate data sources into a single pane of glass. This allows organizations to reference a best-of-breed data repository for daily operations and strategic decisions to support their consumers and the business as a whole.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

SolarWinds Service Desk is a cloud-based and AI-powered IT service management (ITSM) platform built to maximize productivity and accelerate resolution with lightning-fast time to value. With SolarWinds Service Desk you have one place to streamline and organize the tickets and requests that are coming in through different mediums, including email, phone calls, a customized Service Portal, and even the occasional (or extremely frequent) walk up.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Respectful

Cons

  • Vendor Friendly Policies
Lansweeper

Lansweeper

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Lansweeper comes with a variety of scanning methods to accommodate any network setup. Schedule a full network scan by IP range and set critical servers to be scanned every hour or use active scanning and integrate active directory to continuously keep your inventory up to date. Configure scanning just the way you want it to be. While one agent based scanning method is available, using it is completely optional. All other Lansweeper scanning methods do not require agents on your machines.

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ScienceLogicSL1 is an IT Operations Management platform, providing modern IT operations with actionable insights to predict and resolve problems faster in a digital, ephemeral world. Its IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps solution sees everything across cloud and distributed architectures, contextualizes data through relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation.

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Ivanti Neurons for ITSM is a flexible and complete cloud-optimized ITSM solution available. It automates workflows, eliminating costly manual processes improving businesses' efficiency, compliancy, and security. Whether it's IT help desk / support ticket solution or need to perform more advanced ITIL service management processes, Ivanti Neurons for ITSM can scale and adapt to meet specific business needs.

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ChangeGear's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) features a central repository with dependency mapping and configuration auditing that allows organizations to easily provide asset management for their entire virtual and physical infrastructure. Rapidly deploy and utilize the ChangeGear CMDB with its advanced capabilities to map and manage critical resources such as business services, hardware, software, users, documentation, and configuration, all within one federated database.

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OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB discovers, maps, and manages your IT configurations and can be deployed on-premises or via SaaS. Increase your IT visibility and reduce your IT service disruptions with robust discovery, service dependency mapping, and proactive impact analysis.

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