TBM Taxonomy 5.0 - CSDM mapping

Miklos Palfi · ‎06-17-2025

There is a new version of the TBM Taxonomy with version 5.0

How does the new CSDM 5.0 fit with this taxonomy? There is a short statement ("Facilitates reporting aligned with standards like CSDM, FAIR, and ITFM"), but is there any other aspects of the new version?

Previous version was quite well integrated:

https://www.servicenow.com/community/common-service-data-model-forum/tbm-standards-committee-to-disc...

TBM Professor · 4 weeks ago

My original response with all links removed is shown below...

Documentation for TBM v5 is available on TBM Council's site. I attached the latest edition of TBM v5's whitepaper as of Aug 4, 2025, too. The direct link to the Taxonomy web page is here.

The TBM (v4) - CSDM (v4) integration guide is attached. TBM Council members can access the document and other material via TBM Community. The discussion post involving TBM-CSDM integration is available here.

The TBM Council's Standards Committee (of which I'm a member) will begin pivoting to an updated guide in context of TBM v5 and CSDM v5. I expect updated advice will be published next year (2026) as efforts are currently focused on preparing for the TBM Conference in Nov 2025.

If interested in joining us at TBM Conference, visit this link to learn more and register. At the Conference, I will be presenting a fresh take on my TBM-CSDM breakout session with some updates in context of TBM v5 (but still using CSDM v4).

The TBM Conference is a great opportunity to geek out with me, too. I hope to see you there!

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AndersBGS · ‎06-17-2025

Hi @Miklos Palfi ,

is there any documentation shared on TBM 5.0 ? Latest I heard of were 4.1.

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Miklos Palfi · ‎06-18-2025

Hi @AndersBGS ,

there are a lot of documentation on TBM 5.0, which is the successor of TBM 4.1. Hyperlinks are rejected therefore please just search on the web.

But what would interest me more is how it fits with CSDM? TBM is important for us benchmarking with peers in the industry, we have to structure our (service-, product-, technology- and app-) portfolios similar to others, so that we can check how we perform.

I was searching for the connected standards page for CSDM, but haven't found it.
"These updates help organizations better align their taxonomy with practices like Agile, FinOps, and ITFM, while supporting integrations with standards such as CSDM, FAIR, and NIST. Visit our Connected Standards page to explore how the taxonomy maps into these models."

TBM Professor · 3 weeks ago

TBM Council's Standards Committee will begin drafting an updated integration whitepaper in context of TBMv5 and CSDMv5 after the TBM Conference (Nov 2025). All resources are focused on preparing for this year's conference.

I expect TBM Council will begin sharing "previews" of the new whitepaper in June 2026 and publish in time for 2026's TBM Conference (Nov 2026). This represents a conservative time estimate based on my involvement with the first whitepaper and understanding where the TBM Council's Standards Committee is heading.

Miklos Palfi · ‎06-20-2025

One of the point what is now correlating better is the Technology Management Services term (CSDM whitepaper page 42). The renaming of the IT Resource Towers in to Technology Resource Towers (which can be modeled with the taxonomy nodes in ServiceNows service portfolio) also reflects that - see tbmcouncil modernising tbm article.

I wish there would be a framework mapping guidance provided to CSDM 5.0, like there was for CSDM V3 (see above).