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The term Service Management is most widely used as the component of Operations Support Systems responsible for service delivery, such as order management, inventory management, provisioning and activation, network topology management and maintenance, and stability/performance diagnostics of communication service providers and their networks. A service management system automates manual operations of the network, delivery services, and support, making these areas more efficient and error-free.
 
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High Availability: Is it Sufficient for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?

By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences.  This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.
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Stratus Technologies

ITIL v3: Managing Application and Infrastructure Changes

By : Tideway Systems Published Date: Sep 11, 2007
IT service providers need to offer services that deliver new business opportunities whilst increasing levels of availability, controlling risks and reducing costs. This paper provides you with practical guidance based on the practices in ITIL® V3 that will help you manage application and infrastructure changes and configurations.
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Tideway Systems

IT Asset Management: A Cornerstone for Accelerating ITIL Success

By : CA SM Published Date: Nov 29, 2007
IT Asset Management (ITAM) is a cornerstone of IT Service Management (ITSM) yet is often omitted from existing ITSM implementations or initiatives. Version 3 of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) expands the processes, functions and roles in the service life cycle. However, it still does not provide enough details on key process and functional integration points for ITAM.
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CA SM

Insights to Accelerate Services Growth

By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Jun 20, 2008
As a Services Executive are you struggling with questions regarding what to measure, how to effectively engage with your customers, and what information should be leveraged and shared with service-chain partners and customers? Leading edge organizations are making tools and data available to their suppliers and customers with aggregated information from multiple data systems. Service-chain partners and customer personnel can now see the same views of service performance and activity. This is the next frontier to creating customer "stickiness" and business growth.

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Oco, Inc.

Looking for the Best Service Desk Solution? Forrester Wave for Service Desk Management Tools

By : HP Service Management Published Date: Apr 07, 2008
This report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 13 service desk management tool vendors. HP Service Manager 7 earned highest scores in current offering in large and small enterprise evaluations. Read the full report for details on why, according to Forrester Research, Inc., HP should be on the short list for large enterprises in search of full ITSM capabilities.
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HP Service Management

7 Virtues of Virtualization: Avoiding Deadly Mistakes that Doom Business-Critical Service Management

By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Nov 21, 2007
Disaster recovery and business continuity top the list of server virtualization drivers.  And, the stakes are even higher when you virtualize business-critical IT services.  Explore the role that proper project planning and management play in keeping these initiatives on track.
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Stratus Technologies

Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability

By : SAP Published Date: Aug 06, 2007
To succeed in the professional services industry, your firm must continually improve its service delivery methods. Read how you can increase client value and lower costs through implementing more efficient resourcing and partnering processes and co-creating value with your clients.
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SAP

A Dynamic Force for Optimizing IT Operations

By : HP Service Management Published Date: May 19, 2008
As IT's role is morphing away from being a cost center towards being a competitive business enabler, making wise investments in technology can enable a more collaborative and automated way of working. See why Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) says HP's integrated ITIL-based service lifecycle approach reflects a strong sense of modularity and flexibility in support of CMDB deployments, intelligent analytics, automation, and business alignment.
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HP Service Management

Best Practices and Tools to Automate Data Center Security and Compliance

By : HP Service Management Published Date: Mar 25, 2008
IDC shares best practices and recommendations on how IT can gain a consolidated security and compliance view across all of the devices and align data center automation, change management, and process workflows across "IT silos" to deliver compliance assurance and improved security practices.  Enhance security and improve compliance visibility through automation across the IT service lifecycle.
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HP Service Management

CMDB Adoption in the Real World: Just How Real Is It?

By : Tideway Systems Published Date: Jun 15, 2007
This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that's focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB – as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners – read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.
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Tideway Systems

Enhancing IT Support with Knowledge Management

By : CA SM Published Date: Feb 13, 2008
The potential benefits of adopting a Knowledge Management strategy are significant and have far-reaching implications for a business when implemented correctly. The correct use of Knowledge Management techniques and technology makes a company agile and more responsive to the needs of the customer, resulting in enhanced business performance and greater return on investment.
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CA SM

The Emerging IT Shift Toward Business Service Configuration Management

By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 05, 2007
IT organizations continue to struggle with manual tasks and processes, subjective change decision making, and a lack of insight into inventories and service dependencies. Learn three product capabilities IT organizations should have, as well as the critical pieces of business service configuration management.
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HP BladeSystem

AT Kearney: Building a Platform for Better Gov't Services at Lower Cost

By : SAP Published Date: Jun 04, 2007
An AT Kearney 2007 study on shared services in government. The image of the public sector as slow to innovate is rapidly becoming a thing of the past as governments are using advanced technology to consolidate back-office functions, concludes this new report. This study, conducted independently by A.T. Kearney with sponsorship from Cisco®, has uncovered major service improvements and cost reductions as a result of "shared services".
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SAP

Butler Group on iWay Service Manager

By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006
iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.
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iWay Software

First American Corporation Success Story

By : HP Published Date: Jul 14, 2005
First American Corporation utilized HP's High Performance ITSM Simulation and education services to allow IT staff to experience firsthand how ITIL processes dramatically improve business performance.
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HP

Got The Enterprise Software Blues? Appliances to the Rescue

By : KACE Published Date: Sep 19, 2006
This paper explores how Appliance-based Software Delivery (AbSD) provides a better alternative to both software and Software as a Service (SaaS).
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KACE

Gaining Business Value Through ITSM: The HP Approach

By : HP Published Date: Jun 08, 2006
IT organizations need to improve IT operations and align IT with business needs. Read about three HP customers that are implementing solutions that improve IT compliance, increase ROI and support higher availability.

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HP

Get Solutions for Workload Automation and Service Execution

By : IBM Published Date: Mar 05, 2007
As service execution becomes increasingly important and complex, traditional job management tools aren't cutting it. With IBM Tivoli workload automation products, you can easily automate and manage simultaneous workloads across heterogeneous environments.
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IBM

Gain More Business Value from Compliance Spending

By : IBM Published Date: Jun 25, 2007
Managing compliance is a huge challenge for companies, straining IT resources needed to meet service level agreements. To overcome these challenges, IT must support the objectives of your business. This white paper describes how IBM Service Management does just that. It defines and monitors IT governance and compliance management in a repeatable manner across businesses of any size.
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IBM

Helpdesk Password Resync

By : PassGo Published Date: Oct 21, 2005
Management of user ID accounts is expensive for business, frustrating for users, and open to abuse. A user account Helpdesk in a large organization typically deals with many thousands of Helpdesk calls each year, and the costs surrounding this are significant. Any operation that requires human intervention can become a bottleneck during especially busy periods.
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PassGo

How to Get ITIL Done

By : Opalis Published Date: Aug 10, 2006
This paper explains how ITIL can improve service delivery through data center integration and automation of best practices. It also highlights common implementation hazards, real-world examples and the tools required to implement ITIL.
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Opalis

HP Automation: Delivering Intelligent IT Control

By : HP Published Date: Oct 02, 2006
Read how HP allows companies to operate more efficiently by automating labor-intensive IT tasks and datacenter operations.
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HP

How To Develop a Service Catalog

By : Evergreen Systems, Inc. Published Date: Oct 30, 2006
This white paper discusses how to develop a service catalog, leveraging ITIL and CobiT best practices, and lays out eight steps towards developing one, beginning with taxonomy via service definitions and addressing services and service 'families'.

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Evergreen Systems, Inc.

HP ITSM Assessment Services

By : HP Published Date: Jun 24, 2005
HP ITSM Assessment Services are designed to help you achieve the IT service levels your business requires by reducing operational risks from all sources, including people, processes, and technologies. HP ITSM Assessment Services address everything from strategic business/IT alignment and operational process effectiveness to management of technology and the IT environment.
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HP

How to Achieve Sustainable, Competitive Advantage in the Leisure, Entertainment and Travel Industry

By : Easynet Published Date: Dec 21, 2007
Online bookings, billing and ticketing activities lie at the heart of high quality and reliable services in the leisure, entertainment and travel (LET) industry. Indeed, they can effectively act as a primary differentiator in an increasingly competitive and cost-aware environment.
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Easynet
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