Caimit Software releases CMDB-Modeler Starship 7 and starts new Community Portal

The Starship 7 beta had tremendous feedback. - Multiple inheritance structures simplify the definition and alignment of CIs. – The new Community Portal enables exchange between CMDB users.

Landau, Dec 19, 2007 – Caimit Software today released the CMDB modeling tool Starship 7. Starship 7 enables database designers, consultants and IT service managers to create and visualize complex CMDB models, and to adapt them to the needs of their company. Thanks to a friendly user interface, no programming or database knowledge is needed for even the most complex models. Starship 7 is part of the configuration management system Caimit Universe 7, but it can be used completely inde-pendently. Models created by Starship 7 can be exported and integrated in other platforms. The beta phase started in October and approximately 100 participants, mainly from government agencies and large companies have shown interest in and tested Starship 7.

At the same time, the Caimit Community Portal has gone online. Caimit partners and customers, as well as other registered parties can download various materials like Whitepapers on data modeling or help files and discuss best practices with CMDB specialists. The Caimit Community Portal will be continuously developed and extended in early 2008 with a knowledge base and a user forum. Caimit partners will be given the opportunity to present and market themselves as well as their experiences and Universe 7 based solutions. In addition, the Community Portal will allow a fast data exchange between systems and networks in order to enable registered users to benefit from automated soft-ware updates and other user defined synchronization processes.

Caimit Starship 7
Starship 7 allows CMDB architects to models their desired Configuration Items and relationship struc-ture in an easy to use web interface, and visualize all dependencies and relationships using mind mapping technology. The creation and maintenance of complex structures are supported and simpli-fied in particular through multi-level inheritance rules. A CI type can inherit attributes as well as rela-tionships from multiple parent CI types. The creation of Virtual Object-Class CI types like e.g. Asset Items or Rack-Mountable Items with all required attributes and relationships can simply be added as parent CI types to all assets, like computers and printers, or to all rack mountable devices like servers and switches. Starship 7 greatly simplifies the ongoing development of company-specific CMDBs, as the data model can be exported as an XML-file, and then be transferred directly in Caimit Universe 7. With the help of an XML Mapping tool Starship 7 models can also be transferred to other CMDBs.
The use of Starship 7 does not require programming knowledge to design, extended or change Confi-guration Item types and to adapt the underlying structure. This allows companies to react quickly and efficiently to new requirements without having to take recourse to expensive database programmers or administration specialists.
„With more than 100 beta registrations by enterprise companies and government agencies, Caimit Starship 7 had a very promising start“, says Volker Wiora, managing director of Caimit Software. „With the new Caimit Community Portal we want to offer additional value and facilitate the exchange of information for all those that are working with CMDBs. We want to improve the cooperation, the exchange of ideas and best practices within the CMDB community and thus to contribute to the development of generally accepted standards.“

Pricing and Availability
Caimit Starship 7 is immediately available and may be installed and used with a free single-user li-cense. More informatioon at http://www.caimit.com/starship.
The use of the Caimit Community Portal is also free of charge. Customers with a valid license key for Caimit Universe 7 or Caimit Starship 7 are welcome to register at http://www.itil-cmdb.com/community.

About Caimit Universe 7
Caimit Universe 7 is a vendor and platform independent Configuration Management Database (CMDB) with a browser-based interface. Its object-oriented architecture delivers great flexibility and adaptability to any company-size and organizational form, and allows authorized users to change the IT-infrastructure model without developer or database admin support. Caimit Universe 7 provides pro-fessional IT Asset and Service-Management through integrated structures for data federation and change management, and includes additional functionality like Power and HVAC Management.

Caimit Software Ltd
Ostbahnstr. 17
76829 Landau, Germany
EMEA Contact: Ilga Gröschel; Phone: +49 6341 2830487
US Contact: Heman Smith; Phone: 801.831.2898
Email: pr@caimit.com

About Caimit Software
Caimit Software is a leading vendor in the Business Service Management space with Caimit Universe 7 being the central backbone technology that dynamically connects business-oriented IT-Services with the underlying IT-Infrastructure. As a company and software vendor, Caimit is committed to comply with ITIL and other leading industry standards and guidelines. This also means support for technologi-cal industry standards, such as SOAP, and modern forms of communication and team cooperation.

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