The MCUBE^RT platform functions as an "application server" for enterprise management, with enterprise specific management solutions built on it. The key goals that guide platform design are enumerated below. The core concept of the MCUBE platform views enterprises as complex engineering objects and applies time tested engineering principles centered on Reliability, Availability and Performance to manage the Health of enterprise functions.

It is based on a sophisticated, patent-pending semantic model for measuring, monitoring and managing any type of Enterprise Object. An Enterprise Object can be a business process, a software application, a hardware or software infrastructure component or any other element of your enterprise for which you want to implement the discipline of active performance management.

MCUBE is a platform on which enterprise specific management applications are built. The platform itself does not put a scope on the nature of objects that can be managed within an enterprise. It uses a highly extensible design based on a Semantic Network of management concepts and relationships between objects to allow users to define and manage almost any type of object that is key to managing the enterprise.