by Scott Frazier | Jun 27, 2018 | CMDB Data Quality, Data Management
The first half of the calendar year is when property tax returns are due in most jurisdictions and your company’s finance team is likely to ask your IT staff for an accounting of the company’s technical assets and where they are located. This information is important,...
by Scott Frazier | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Quality
Does your IT environment look like a thoughtfully organized warehouse (with a place for everything and everything in its place) or from an episode of the TV program, “Hoarders”? Every component, asset, etc. you add to your environment has a useful life and keeping...
by Michael Nicholas | May 23, 2018 | Blazent Products, Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Quality
Analysts, operations staff, managers and IT leaders spend a tremendous amount of time looking at data about their IT operations. “What do we have?” “For what is it used?” “How accurate is it?” “Why don’t the numbers add correctly?” “What happens if we miss something?”...
by Michael Nicholas | May 16, 2018 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality
Malicious attacks on company’s IT systems are increasing. If you don’t believe it, then just read the news. Each week, more companies and government organizations appear in headlines with data breaches, ransomware attacks and malware disrupting operations. Customers...
by Michael Nicholas | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality
What is the most common response from executives when a company experiences a security breach, major outage or disaster situation? “I didn’t think it could happen to us!” When did an executive last make such a statement publicly? You would be hard pressed to find...
by Scott Frazier | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Quality
Do you sometimes experience that anxious, unsettled feeling when you think about your IT asset and configuration data? You have invested much time and money implementing discovery tools and populating your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with huge amounts of...
