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title: Products that use and benefit from CSDM guidelines
description: Following the CSDM guidelines generates significant benefits in impact analysis, risk analysis, and business continuity.
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# Products that use and benefit from CSDM guidelines

Following the CSDM guidelines generates significant benefits in impact analysis, risk analysis, and business continuity.

## Importance of CSDM to the ServiceNow AI Platform

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Product family

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Benefits of a mature CMDB that follows the CSDM guidelines

</th><th>

Key metrics

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ITSM

</td><td>

-   Change management
-   True service-level reporting
-   Remove semantic disparity

</td><td>

-   Reduced tickets
-   Reduced MTTR

</td></tr><tr><td>

ITOM

</td><td>

-   Visibility across environments
-   System health and availability
-   Map issues to business processes for prioritization

</td><td>

-   Avoided service outages
-   Reduced MTTR

</td></tr><tr><td>

ITAM

</td><td>

-   Accurate license positions
-   Visibility across operational and financial data

</td><td>

-   Reduced software license fines
-   Reduced failed audits

</td></tr><tr><td>

Strategic Portfolio Management \(SPM\)

</td><td>

-   Map resources to business processes
-   Services based on business context
-   Planning scope and impact of investment / divestment

</td><td>

Reduced business risk and outages from outdated technologies

</td></tr><tr><td>

SecOps

</td><td>

-   Prioritization of vulnerabilities based on business criticality
-   Faster incident isolation and response
-   End-to-end risk visibility

</td><td>

Reduced time to remediate priority 1 vulnerabilities

</td></tr><tr><td>

DevOps

</td><td>

-   Automated DevOps change management
-   Link between configuration changes and impacted Cls

</td><td>

Automated change

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CSM

</td><td>

-   Visibility across customer environment
-   Accurate response to incidents

</td><td>

Customer satisfaction

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IRM \(GRC\)

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-   Ensures quality data used for audit
-   Healthy, trusted data is critical for audit scoping and activities

</td><td>

-   Accurately identify audited entities
-   Reduced audit effort and time

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</table>## Benefits of the CSDM guidelines

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Benefit

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Value and associated features

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Rationalization — Determine how well an enterprise application is performing

</td><td>

Identify insights from operational activities related to services \(visualize aggregated information across all your services and supporting operations\). Application Portfolio Management \(APM\) and IT Business Management \(ITBM\)

</td></tr><tr><td>

Outage reduction — Identify affected business services quickly

</td><td>

Prioritize critical events based on service-related information. IT Service Management \(ITSM\) and Event Management

</td></tr><tr><td>

Reporting — Consistent and reliable information about your services and digital products

</td><td>

Understand services, their makeups, and their accountabilities. IT Service Management \(ITSM\)

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Alignment — Align business processes to reduce risk and assure conformance

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Understand Service Health \(availability, CSAT, Performance, Vulnerabilities, IPC stats\)Governance, Risk, and Compliance \(GRC\)

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Exploring the CSDM model](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/common-service-data-model-csdm/csdm-content-frame-exploring.md)