Populating CMDB - Discovery Solutions

Appilog (HP/Mercury)- Application Discovery and Mapping solution that ensures businesses can keep their applications available with minimal effort and cost.
Link - http://www.mercury.com/us/website/appilog.html


Collation (IBM ) - Collation software automatically captures information about IT resources, such as servers, applications and databases, and displays it on a detailed map.
Link - http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/features/collation/


Relicore (Symantec) - Relicore's Clarity product is configuration management solution capable of automatically discovering, mapping, and tracking changes to application and server components in real time.
Link - http://www.symantec.com/index.jsp


n-layers (EMC )- Automate CMDB Dependency Mapping using a unique, hybrid passive/active
discovery engine.
Link - http://www.nlayers.com/


Tideway (Tideway Systems) - Unique intelligent and agent-free discovery and reasoning engines,automatically populates the CMDB with information about the IT and application infrastructure and calculates the dependencies. Using normalization and reconciliation capabilities - data in third party configuration databases can be leveraged.
Link - http://www.tideway.com/


Cendura (CA)- IT service management and application service delivery solutions.
Link - http://www.ca.com/content/campaign.aspx?CID=137166


BMC Discovery (BMC)-automatically discovering People, Business Processes, Applications and IT infrastructure data to provide an up-to-date picture of your IT environment, the people who depend upon it, and the business processes that make up your critical business services.
Link - http://www.bmc.com/products/products_services_detail/0,,0_0_0_1701,00.html

Some good articles on Asset Management

The Evolution of IT Asset Management (part 1 of 4)
http://www.swspartners.com/newsletters/tlg-jun06.pdf

The Business Requirements and Design (part 2 of 4)
http://www.swspartners.com/newsletters/tlg-aug06.pdf

ITAM Data Capture and Data Store (part 3 of 4)
http://www.swspartners.com/newsletters/tlg-feb07.pdf

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