Start your downloads. If you are a part of the Beta Team you should see CMDB 7 as a part of the available products to download and start testing. From the email to start beta testing: We are pleased to announce the beta release of Altiris CMDB 7. Registration for the CMDB 7 beta may be found under the profile tab of the beta portal. We anticipate the beta cycle to run approximately 8 weeks. We look forward to working with you to improve the product toward release. There are a number of new features with CMDB 7 built on the Symantec Management Platform. The following features have been added or improved: Reporting – Many reports have been rewritten using the new 7.0 reporting engine – The rest of the reports are available in a legacy mode Portals in the console – Customize your own view with web parts – Tree view of resources by type is still available – Multiple ways to get to resources; either through the Manage or Home menus Resource edit page configurable – There are no tab any longer – The information and links, previously shown on the Summary tab, have been moved to the Resource Manager – The order of data classes defaults to alphabetic order – Custom filters can be defined to set the order of the data classes as well as hide any that are not required – Filters can be personal to the console user or shared globally Resource association diagram – Show multiple levels at one time – configurable on each diagram – Filter resource types or associations – View as a tree hierarchy, radial or free form – Click and drag to reposition resources in the diagram Automatic organizational groups – if a resource has a location, cost center, department or user defined, the resource will automatically be added to the matching organizational groups – Assets by Location – Assets by Cost Center – Users by Department – Users by Location We look forward to working with you. Thank you for your interest in our products. This is exciting and a great start to completing the 7 product set. Hopefully Service Desk is just around the corner
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