CMstat has announced the next dates in October, 2024, and February, 2025, for its exclusive training course on Data Management for Configuration Data Managers using the SAE GEIA-859 standard.

The latest release of the EPOCH Configuration Management and Data Management software (Version 2.5.3.166) has been announced by the U.S.-based independent software provider CMstat.

In this short video presentation from Lisa Fenwick, learn who is CMstat including:

• What is CMstat’s core business focus?

• What technology markets and industries does CMstat serve?

• What business problems and engineering challenges do CMstat’s solutions address?

• What are CMstat’s software products and consulting services?

• Who are CMstat’s customers and end users?

A new training course from CMstat will provide an introduction to the Principles of Applied GEIA859 Enterprise Data Management (DM) with emphasis on what the practical application of DM truly entails for a product, project, program, or enterprise. Students will gain an understanding of DM functions and how they work in concert to enable best-in-class management, identification, storage, protection and access control of all types of data.

In this month’s CMsights we speak with Lisa Fenwick, Vice President of CMstat, to ask her the most important questions about performing Configuration Management Assessments. Lisa is a CMPIC Certified CM Assessor with 15 years’ worth of successful CM Assessments from over 25 years of CM experience. Lisa serves as the lead instructor for CMPIC’s Course 7 – CM Assessor Certification.

In this month’s CMsights we examine the important yet often misunderstood role of Configuration Management Champions within an organization. In a recent CMsights post we explored the obstacles to Getting Managers to Care About Configuration Management and asked readers for their own experience of making CM more important.  The top three responses cited by readers can all be traced to misconceptions that managers have about the CM function which CM Champions can remedy.

This month’s CMsights shares CMstat Vice President Lisa Fenwick’s presentation from CMPIC’s CM Trends 2022 conference on “How Much Configuration Management is Good Enough?”

Learn what are the eight critical functions for “good CM” within the five foundational pillars of CM, such as Planning and Management, by downloading the presentation for immediate viewing.

Much has been recently written about the use of Configuration Management (CM) as products, equipment, systems, and infrastructures (both physical and digital) become more complex to design and maintain with frequent configuration changes over longer lifecycles of consumer use or asset deployment. As a result, the role of configuration management continues to rapidly expand and evolve, creating new challenges, opportunities and decisions for CM professionals, industry practitioners and solution providers.

In this month’s CMsights we speak with Lisa Fenwick, Vice President of Product Development for CMstat, to better understand what exactly is Change Implementation Planning and Verification. It’s a timely topic because many product and project managers are justifiably confused by the overlapping terms change control, change management, change implementation…

By far the most common error CMstat has observed industrial users of CM software make is that of senior-level managers mistakenly believing their organization was ready to proceed implementing a configuration management strategy before everyone was adequately educated, prepared and trained to do so…

In our first CMviews interview, CMstat’s Vice President of Development Lisa Fenwick speaks with Larry Gurule, President of CMPIC, about the role of Configuration Management in taming then leveraging the Digital Thread. In this broadcast our pair of subject matter experts begin to explore: What is the Digital Thread and…