Why is CIM important? - Splunk Community

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Why CIM is important? easy example

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CIM/5.0.2/User/Overview#Why_the_CIM_exists

CIM makes it easier to correlate events generated by products from different vendors. For instance, logins on Windows and Linux computers.

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