Why a CDB?

Due to a growing interest in adopting best practices across IT departments, particularly according to standards such as ITIL, many organizations are now beginning to implement a CDB. The core infrastructure record, the CMDB, provides information about the state of assets and the relationships among assets. By providing performance and resource information about the configuration items (CI) of the CMDB, a CDB works in tight synergy with the CMDB to provide a complete, reliable and robust view of the business/IT infrastructure, including information about the business, service, technical, financial, and utilization data for an organization.