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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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Business Benefits of Business Service Automation: An In-Depth Customer Survey
By : HP Software Published Date: May 31, 2008
What can you really expect from the use of HP Business Service Automation? HP customers share real results!

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Enforcing IT Change Management Policy
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.
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Tripwire
Establish ITIL Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Processes to Align Your IT With Business Objectives
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 14, 2006
Today, an IT-driven, customer-centric business approach isn’t a luxury — it’s imperative. More and more businesses are moving out of a cost-centric view of their IT potential and into a realization that IT can transform business processes. This white paper shows how you can maximize your IT function by leveraging ITIL best practice processes. These guidelines can help you effectively manage IT changes, assets, personnel and service levels all while reducing costs—going beyond simple IT asset management to deliver proactive IT business improvements.
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Gain Strategic Insight into Business Services. Optimize Availability and Performance
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 02, 2008
Many enterprises depend heavily on business services to generate revenue. But they often have trouble correlating availability and performance information from individual systems with the business as a whole. To do this, you need a clear view of your service infrastructure. Integrated availability and performance solutions can provide the visibility, control, and automation that your IT environment needs.
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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
HP Mission Critical Proactive Services - Transport Manufacturing Case Study
By : HP Published Date: Jul 21, 2008
This case study highlights how a leading transportation firm uses executive financial incentives to insure the highest system uptime for its customers. With the need to keep thousands of vehicles and employees on the move and process millions of daily transactions, keeping mission critical systems running is essential for financial performance.

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IT Service Management Metrics That Matter
By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 07, 2007
Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.
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ITIL Version 3 and the IT Service Catalog
By : newScale Published Date: Aug 06, 2007
Demand for IT services is outpacing the growth of IT budgets. The business constantly requests new services, requires higher service levels, and expects more consistent service delivery. With supply constrained, the only solution is to manage this demand more effectively. The new version of ITIL prescribes essential changes to help IT and the business tackle this difficult task.
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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.
ITSM: It's About Managing Change
By : HP Published Date: Jan 16, 2007
This white paper describes critical steps IT executives must take to prepare for change and manage an ITSM implementation to maximize its value and ensure that it achieves the full transformation effect it is capable of delivering. IT Service Management (ITSM) is a proven and effective framework for helping IT organizations become more adaptive, flexible, cost effective, and service oriented.
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Increase your Service Availability and Performance with IBM Service Management
By : IBM Published Date: May 31, 2007
Today’s operations teams are faced with more pressure than ever to ensure high service availability and performance. They must keep pace with the growing array of service demands, soaring costs, the rapid evolution of technology and an increasingly competitive marketplace. However, many organizations suffer from an obscured view into key business services and supporting technology, because they lack the closed-loop, cross-domain management that’s needed.
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ITIL version 3: What It Means and How IBM Can Help
By : IBM Published Date: Sep 10, 2007
For a growing business, it’s increasingly difficult to integrate technological solutions and services to improve service management. So various frameworks have been created to help today’s IT professionals optimize their use of technology in managing IT processes. The third version of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides the latest set of process best practices for any service management improvement effort.
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IT Service Management: Is It Now Too Important to Leave to the IT Department Alone?
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 27, 2007
IT is becoming increasingly important in virtually every aspect of business. For enterprises to compete effectively in the marketplace, IT service management must broaden its focus and take a more holistic attitude toward IT service provision. The goal is to resolve the disconnect between IT and business within organizations in order to achieve necessary levels of resilience, control, availability and quality of service.
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10 Best Practices for IT Request Management
By : newScale Published Date: Nov 15, 2007
This white paper outlines the challenges associated with IT Request Management and ten best practices that represent the hard-won knowledge from dozens of successful Service Request Management projects. By following these guidelines, your IT organization can provide more responsive service delivery, increase operational efficiency, and improve internal customer satisfaction.
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Mission Critical Webcast
By : HP Published Date: Jul 11, 2008
Join IDC and HP on this webcast about Mission Critical Services. Matt Healey of IDC provides insights on the adoption of consolidation, virtualization and Service Oriented Architecture as aggressive strategies to align IT more closely with business goals.
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Operational IT Service Management (ITSM)
By : HP Published Date: Dec 12, 2006
This white paper explores the advantages of Operational ITSM- through incremental and continual improvement of service management practices on an ongoing basis. IT organizations must evolve into trusted service providers that adapt quickly, offer cost-effective, reliable, and flexible services to meet today's business initiatives. This evolution is not easy. It requires that the IT organization adopt an IT Service Management (ITSM) framework. Operational ITSM provides an incremental approach for companies that may not have the resources to finance and staff a large ITSM project.
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HP
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
Reducing Risk Through Requirements-Driven Quality Management: An End-to-End Approach
By : HP Software Published Date: May 25, 2007
Learn how to trace requirements from definition to release give IT and business managers real data to support decisions.
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HP Software
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
Solving Your Enterprise-Wide Service Management Problems
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 11, 2007
Today’s increasingly complex environments are a challenge to manage. This white paper will show you how IBM Service Management solutions from Tivoli can help you better understand your IT and operation environments and manage your business more efficiently—all while controlling costs and mitigating compliance risks. You’ll also discover how IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management solutions provide a single software platform for managing all IT and operations assets across your enterprise.

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IBM
The IT Service Catalog: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
By : newScale Published Date: Nov 13, 2007
This white paper is intended to share some of those lessons learned and suggesting ways you can achieve success by avoiding the most common pitfalls. But before we talk about the typical mistakes in creating a Service Catalog, let’s briefly review its purpose.
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newScale
Align Your Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 05, 2007
One of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face is a lack of trust in IT’s ability to deliver business value. While a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can sort things out by making systems more flexible and agile, this is only part of the answer. What’s missing is an effective model for engaging consistently with business teams throughout the whole lifecycle of IT investments.
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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
Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation
By : SAP Published Date: Jul 20, 2006
This white paper introduces operational strategies and trends in ERP that drive the consideration of an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). You will be able to assess whether ESA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation.
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Strategies for Profitable Growth: Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Overview Brochure
By : SAP Published Date: Feb 21, 2005
Examine the comprehensive strategies, solutions, and best practices that SAP has acquired through extensive technical and business expertise – including solution maps based on customer and industry analyst input.
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