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In the process of performing configuration management, configuration items (or work products) may be assigned a baseline so as to establish them as having a certain status. In this sense, to baseline a work product may require certain change(s) to the work product to ensure it conforms to the characteristics associated with the baseline referenced.
Configuration change control is a set of processes and approval stages required to change a configuration item's attributes and to re-baseline them. Configuration status accounting is the ability to record and report on the configuration baselines associated with each configuration item at any moment of time.
Configuration items are represented by their properties. These properties can be common to all the configuration items (e.g. unique item code that we will generate, description of function, end of the lifecycle or business owner that is approving configuration item changes and technical owner, i.e. administrator, that is supporting it and implementing the changes).
Configuration identification - Identifying configurations, configuration items and baselines. Configuration control - Implementing a controlled change process. This is usually achieved by setting up a change control board whose primary function is to approve or reject all change requests that are sent against any baseline.
A configuration management database (CMDB) is an ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets (commonly referred to as configuration items). It is useful to break down configuration items into logical layers. [1]
SAP IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) [1] SAP Jam; SAP Knowledge Warehouse (KW) SAP Manufacturing; SAP Marketing Cloud; SAP Materials Management (MM), a module in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), that provides companies with materials, inventory and warehouse management capabilities [2] SAP Master Data Management (MDM)
ISO 10007 "Quality management — Guidelines for configuration management" is the ISO standard that gives guidance on the use of configuration management within an organization. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] "It is applicable to the support of products from concept to disposal ."
First generation configuration engines are still in use as in for instance SAP's Variant Configuration module in SAP ERP. [12] The second generation of engines flourished in the 1990s. They are constraint solvers using constraint propagation and search techniques developed in the Artificial Intelligence domain. They are the dominant technology ...