Whats the difference between Application and Business Application table in CMDB

[Mohansudheer In]

Whats the difference between Application and Business Application table in CMDB

[Inactive_Us1137]

Hi,

Yes you can create relationships between Infrastructure Components like Servers with Business Application. Just add CI Relations to the form and it will allow you to create relationships.

Thanks

Abhishek Gupta

[bierrot81]

Hi all,

So interestingly there are conceptual, structural, vocabulary differences:

• Conceptually, SN is better with physical implementations than logical ones. For instance, let's say you own an application but have multiple versions deployed. The appl ci table is good for physical apps. For instance, let's say you have SSMS 11.0, 13.0 and 17.0. You would have three instances in your app table but if you wanted to regroup them you had to use a business service (cmdb ci service) and use the classification : application service. So now the business app table would allow you to represent this grouping in a dedicated table
• Structurally: what doesn't change is that it is an extension of the ci table so you can associate that to anything that is also a CI and have many to many relationships. What changes for now is the attributes and pre-populated associations to owners, tech stack, portfolio etc. They could have done that to the service table but these are informations more related to business applications than other type of services
• Vocabulary: at the end of the day SN is moving to more business oriented market that deals with app portfolio management, governance etc.

To sum up: you can use this table as any other ci table extension. This is intended to connect with more business oriented, logical applications discussion. Technically it is similar to the cmdb-ci_service table (app classification) with some attributes and associations that should resonate with your app owners.