IMHO - Lately the BMC QA Department is the customer base :( /IMHO On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Rick Cook <remedyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ** > > BMC does have a QA department, don't they? > > Rick > On Jun 8, 2011 6:09 AM, "Peter Romain" < > p.romain.arsl...@parsolutions.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > BMC just released new Product Catalog data based on ADDM discovery data. > > > > I was hoping to use this data immediately as we need to reconcile ADDM > > data with other data sources (HP uCMDB, CiscoWorks and manual audit > data). > > > > I loaded the data only to find that it looks amateurish. > > > > Specifically: > > Data has the first character as upper case and the rest as lower. This > > means that we see companies like Bmc, Ibm, Hp, etc. The product name data > > is also the same. For reports this won't look good. > > > > Then there are exceptions and possible duplicates such as the inclusion > of > > both 'Network associates' and 'Networks Associates' (note the capital > > 'A'). > > > > Although open to debate the customer here thinks the normalisation > aliases > > are the wrong way around for companies like BMC (BMC Software converts to > > BMC), HP (Hewlett-Packard converts to Hp), etc. > > > > The Tier 1-3 values are all the same. A suggestion of possible values > > would have been good. > > > > The data only includes Product class data. The opportunity to include > > other classes has been missed (but I hope will come later). > > > > > > The customer here has decided to analyse ADDM data themselves and create > > Product Catalog, Manufacturers and NE aliases. > > > > The BMC data as it stands is as much help as the old DSL data was (did > > anyone really use this?). Maybe I was expecting too much! > > > > Anyone else looked at this? > > > > Cheers > > > > Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > > attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
