Appendix D

Product Map

The brief “Product Map” provided here is a useful guide for planning your technology selection. By exploring the options below, you will have a chance to assess examples of different design points, cost points, and appropriateness as per use case.

This Product Map features four key categories:

 Core CMDB capabilities integrated with service desk or IT Service Management solutions

 Unique CMDB or CMDB-related offerings

 General-purpose Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping solutions

 Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping optimized for performance and/or other more real-time values

However, this Product Map is not intended to be a complete list of available vendor offerings for any number of reasons.

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