As this is a recurring discussion it is a good topic to explain via different use cases. A Dynamic CI Group is a logical grouping of Configuration Items (CIs) that can be automatically populated (via CMDB Groups) and maintained based on rules, condit...
A big ServiceNow budget doesn't guarantee business value. If your teams still work in silos, your ROI gets buried under handoffs, duplicate work, and slow incident response. That is the core point behind Bill Martin's G2 review of ServiceNow. Inste...
One of the most common questions I hear in every CMDB or CSDM conversation is: “Should this go in Business Application, or should it be created as a Business Service and Service Offering?” This confusion happens everywhere — ITSM teams, application...
If you haven’t read Part 1, I highly recommend giving it a read, even if just to understand the characters below a bit better. IntroductionLast time, we met Spider-Man, Goku, and even the Dodge – each standing in for different CIs. Now let’s see how ...
As part of my ongoing mission to help everyone in my family - and beyond - understand ServiceNow, I started writing a series of articles titled ELI5, which stands for Explain Like I’m 5. If you haven’t read the first one about Domain Separation, you ...
If you haven’t read Part 1 and Part 2, I recommend them so you know why Spider-Man is driving a Dodge Viper and why Goku keeps showing up uninvited, as well as what Spider-Man does for New York, what he does at home, and why the F.N.S.M. app is basic...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. Today we are going to jump into foreign wa...
Application Services are essential part of the Common Service Data Model (CSDM). This article focuses on how to use Application Services for manually maintained Service Maps in the situation when Service Mapping is not deployed. Proper usage of Appli...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. Today we will dive into one of the in-betw...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. When creating your service & infrastructur...
A few months ago, I published the community article „CSDM 4.0: (any) Status attribute vs. Life cycle“, which describes the way to approach „legacy“ status attributes and the new Life Cycle. In this article, I will focus on how to get the new Life Cyc...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. Whenever talking about the CSDM model, the...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. With shared application instances a clear ...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. The conundrum around dynamic CI groups is ...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. With platform teams the discussion quickly...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. Especially with database teams I often enc...
Application Service is being renamed to Service Instance. At the same time, new classes - Data Service Instance, Network Service Instance, Connection Service Instance, Operational Process Service Instance, and Facility Service Instance - have been in...
How do you measure 4 years since CSDM 4? Two million, one hundred two thousand, four hundred minutes Two million, one hundred two thousand, four hundred CSDM guidance so dear It has been a long time coming for CSDM 5. We have laughed together, we h...
Why is it modeled like that? This question often comes up in CSDM workshops. This series of small articles will dive into some specific modeling practices related to not just CSDM but also Service Mapping. With platform teams in larger companies th...
All of us that have worked with the CSDM know the importance of keeping data structured. One thing is off course the discoverable bits and parts like the different CI, that we put into different classes like Windows Servers, Linux Servers, computers ...
