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Cormant-CS DCIM

by Cormant · Since 2003
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Quick facts
VendorCormant
Year launched2003
StatusActive
Location210 S Hudson St, Suite 380, Seattle, Washington 98134, US
Countries servedGlobal
Languages9
Integrations30+
Free tier
Free trial
Contact salesYES

About Cormant-CS DCIM

Cormant-CS is a DCIM software platform from Cormant that provides a comprehensive solution for data center infrastructure management. It includes IT Asset Management (ITAM), Connectivity Management, and Capacity improvement and Analytics so organizations can effectively manage their resources. This platform is designed to deliver intuitive ease of use and a rapid return on investment, ensuring that users can use its capabilities without complexity. Cormant-CS supports data center efficiency by integrating software with support and services tailored to meet industry needs. Key capabilities: IT Asset Management (ITAM) Connectivity Management Capacity improvement Analytics User Support Best for: data center managers that need to improve asset visibility and management efficiency.

Cormant-CS DCIM by Cormant is a comprehensive data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution designed to provide end-to-end visibility and control over critical physical and logical assets within data centers. The software is tailored to meet the needs of organizations seeking to improve asset management, capacity planning, network documentation, and environmental monitoring. With over two decades of evolution and implementation across various industries, Cormant-CS stands out for its ability to consolidate complex infrastructure data into a centralized and highly configurable system. Key features include real-time asset tracking, cable management, power chain visualization, and extensive integration support with third-party platforms and hardware systems. The user interface of Cormant-CS is robust, flexible, and designed to be intuitive for both technical and non-technical users. While the layout is information-dense—reflecting the software’s powerful data processing capabilities—it offers configurable dashboards, visual floor mapping, and logical rack views to simplify navigation. Users can toggle between views such as hierarchical trees, visual diagrams, and filtered data lists, enabling easy access to the most relevant operational insights.

Pros & Cons

What users like
  • +Proven & Comprehensive: Long-standing success and a wide range of DCIM features.
  • +Excellent Mobility: Offers unique online and offline data access, ensuring accuracy.
  • +Strong Integrations: Easily connects with other enterprise systems (CMDB, ITSM).
  • +Customer-Focused: Emphasizes user success with guaranteed deployment and robust support.
  • +Highly Adaptable: Configurable and vendor-neutral to fit diverse environments.
What users flag
  • Pricing Opaque: Specific cost details are not publicly available.
  • Initial Learning: May have a slight learning curve for new users.
  • Reporting Aesthetics (Potentially): Some past feedback suggested reporting could be more visually intuitive.

Features

Key features

Complete DCIM Solution
Cormant-CS offers unmatched functionality and intuitive ease of use for a rapid return on investment, encompassing various aspects of data center and IT infrastructure management.
Customer Success Focused
Cormant emphasizes a combination of software, processes, and maturity, providing services and best practice knowledge to ensure customers achieve their DCIM goals. They even guarantee a single price for a useful deployment.
Proven Track Record & Experience
Over 17 years in DCIM, with 300+ customers on 6 continents and over 1,300,000 assets under management, demonstrating significant expertise and reliability.
Unmatched Mobility (Online & Offline)
A standout feature, allowing users to access and update data anywhere, even without network connectivity, using various modern devices including barcode scanners. This ensures highly accurate data.
Configurability & Vendor Neutrality
The system is highly configurable to meet specific customer requirements and is vendor-neutral, allowing flexibility in defining data points and adapting to various environments.
Strong Integration Capabilities
Offers open APIs (SOAP and RESTful) and a dedicated External Data Integration Service (EDIS) platform for seamless, bi-directional data exchange with CMDB/ITSM systems (like ServiceNow, Remedy), BMS, and financial systems.
Guaranteed Deployment Price
Cormant offers a fixed price for deployment, and a guarantee to deliver the solution in a useful state, reducing financial risk for customers.

Additional features

Complete DCIM Solution
Manages your entire IT infrastructure, including facilities, equipment, network paths, power, and environmental data.
IT Asset Management (ITAM)
Tracks the full lifecycle of assets from procurement to decommissioning, including accurate inventory via mobile and scanning.
Connectivity Management (CMS)
Manages all types of power and data connections (copper, fiber, MPO), including automated channel and load management, and redundancy analysis.
Capacity Optimization
Provides insights and visualizations to help identify optimal locations for equipment, optimize capacity, power, and environmentals to increase uptime and postpone expansions.
Online and Offline Mobility
Allows users to access and update data from any modern device (web, tablet, phone, barcode scanners) both online and offline, ensuring data accuracy at the point of change.
CMDB / ITSM Integrations
Offers open APIs (SOAP, RESTful) and a dedicated platform (EDIS) for seamless, bi-directional data exchange with CMDB/ITSM systems (e.g., ServiceNow, Remedy), BMS, and financial systems.
Configurability & Vendor Neutrality
Highly customizable with a point-and-click interface, allowing users to define data points and adapt to various environments and vendors.
Data Center Floor Plans & Rack Views
Provides visual representations with 2D and 3D floor plans and rack elevations, automatically updated and color-coded for capacity and alerts.
Dynamic Power and Environmental Management
Monitors and manages real-time power and environmental data (temperature, humidity), offering alerts, historical trending, and PUE calculations across multiple vendor PDUs.
Change Management (Workflow)
Includes a full workflow system for planning and executing changes, supporting collaboration, integrating with ticket systems, and suggesting asset placement and provisioning.
Scripted Automation
Features powerful scripting capabilities to automate actions based on events or thresholds, like initiating external services or modifying data.
Infrastructure Monitoring
Uses a built-in scripting engine with SNMP and XML libraries for monitoring popular devices, including smart PDUs, wireless sensors, VMs, and servers.
Auditing
Offers a configurable audit module to compare actual vs. recorded data, provide compliance proof, and log all changes in read-only databases.
Alerts and Notifications
Allows user-defined alerts, thresholds, and subscriptions for immediate email notifications on critical statuses, with visual indicators on floor plans.
Powerful Search
Enables searching for any data point, from serial numbers to complex criteria, with saved searches and multi-row editing of results.
Data Import/Export
Supports easy import of data from various sources (spreadsheets, Access, existing solutions) and export of all data in multiple formats.
Multi-Site Management
Capable of managing IT infrastructure across small single-site data centers to global enterprises with hundreds of sites.
Co-location Vendor Support
Includes specific features for co-location environments, such as per-tenant, multi-site kWh capture and reporting.
Security Features
Comprehensive security includes role-based permissions, database encryption, TLS 1.2 communication, and AD/LDAP SSO with OAuth authentication.
Simple Licensing
Licensed based on the amount of infrastructure managed, without additional modules to purchase.
Device Auto Discovery
Automatically discovers devices to help populate the system.
Services & Support
Consulting
Expert guidance for planning and executing DCIM initiatives.
Implementation
Structured six-step process for rapid deployment, with guaranteed pricing for a useful state.
DCIM Training
Comprehensive courses for all user levels, available on-site or remotely.
Proof of Concept (POC)
Mini-deployment to demonstrate functionality and prepare for a full project.
Site Audits and Validation
Services to ensure data accuracy through audits and data migration.
Integration Services
Expertise in integrating Cormant-CS with other enterprise systems using APIs and EDIS.
Turnkey Offerings
All-inclusive packages covering licenses, support, training, and data migration.

Pricing

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Countries & Languages

Global
Countries served
9
Interface languages
11
Billing currencies

Interface languages

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