CSDM is guidance on what you need to consider in the data model, and we have organized it in a way to understand how entities connect and in which order to consider addressing them.
The Foundations Domain in CSMD are typically prerequisite for data in other domains to be managed effectively. May customers don't even realize this Foundation Data element even exist before they get much further into their implementations and typically have to come back and fix that data after it gets out of hand.
Contracts and Product Models are important in certain products and use-cases, such as defining the Offering based on contractual obligations with service providers. Product Models are used mostly in Asset Management today, but we will be leveraging them more in the future as CSDM becomes more Product Centric.
This video explains a new San Diego feature that populates many Logical Product Models. This video explains how we are moving CSDM to be more product-centric in the future as well, and I do mention how Product Models will be used in the future.
I suggest that early in your journey, focus on the Product Models and Contracts from an Asset Management perspective. These can be addressed in the CSDM Crawl stage as part of the Discovery process. Asset Management can be a fast follower to create and manage the Software and Hardware Product Models that are related to the CI's. The Model ID reference in the CI's are to be used to relate the specific Product Model that the CI represents, see below.
