CIM Representations for Management Specification描述了一个开放、安全、可移植、高效和可扩展的基础架构，用于管理桌面、移动、服务器、虚拟化和存储系统。CIM Representations for Management Specification的关键属性描述了当通过WBEM协议（即CIM/XML协议、WS-Management协议或命令行协议）传输时，如何将CIM模式建模的管理信息表示为数据结构管理规范的CIM表示法适用于多种操作系统，如Windows、Linux、Solaris、HP-UX、AIX和z/OS，以及各种嵌入式环境。

The CIM Representations for Management Specification describes an open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible infrastructure for management of desktop, mobile, server, virtualized and storage systems.The key properties of CIM Representations for Management Specification describes how management information modeled by the CIM Schema is represented as a data structure when transferred by the WBEM protocols (i.e., CIM/XML protocol, WS-Management protocol, or Command Line protocol.An an "open systems" specification, the CIM Representations for Management Specification is intended for use across a wide variety of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and z/OS, as well as a variety of embedded environments.