Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for April 3rd through April 7th:

• Xpenser – Mobile Expense Tracking and Management –
• Search At the Front and Center of IT Operations Management | iFountain.com – Google revolution is spreading, search is becoming the primary mechanism to interact with information replacing hierarchies.
  There is ever increasing amount of IT management data and that is locked inside various IT management tools. Users have to know where the data is and traverse through however the data is organized in the particular tool. Something better is needed and search paradigm seems to fit,.

  Search is at the heart of RapidInsight, our IT Operations Management solution. RapidInsight has a built-in modeling engine to model the IT environment (classes, properties, relations, operations, etc.) and a search engine (Compass/Lucene) as the data store. The combination of object based modeling and search engine provides a powerful platform for IT operations management solutions.

• The Forrester Blog For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals – *** ITIL v3 CMS has the right approach. No monolithic CMDB but a CMS (configuration management system) that incorporates many management data repositories (MDRs). This can be done right now without CMDBf support from vendors that may or may not arrive a year down the line. This is the exact philosophy driving RapidInsight project