sentences:  The company was the first to introduce an agent-less technology to discover, understand and map the complex relationships between applications and the underlying technology infrastructure.nLayers also offered one of the first real-life implementations of CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and was recognized by analysts firm Forrester as the leading CMDB product.Since its acquisition on June 7, 2006, nLayers was a subsidiary of EMC and was later merged into Vmware.