The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of best practices for improving and aligning IT services to business needs. ITIL processes provide various key performance indicators ...

Pressures to decrease cost, increase reliability, and comply with local regulations conspire to make it harder than ever for IT to deliver business services efficiently. We are fast approaching the ...

One major proponent is the Information Technology Service Management Forum (itSMF), an international, independent user group that has become a major influence on the best practices of IT service ...

With the excitement of a new version of ITIL (IT infrastructure library), there should be a resurgence of interest in ITSM (IT service management) as well. IT service management (ITSM) is nothing new.

Half the battle with properly managing IT infrastructure and applications is adhering to best practices. The other half? Putting technology in place to automate, monitor and speed problem resolution.

These days everyone seems to be defined as a customer. Indeed, it`s the one thing that unites a bank account-holder, an online shopper and even an end-user of a corporate IT system. And the one thing ...

What is ITSM (IT service management)? Your email has been sent This ITSM guide covers how IT service management evolved from ITIL, along with an overview of the ITIL life cycle and the many IT service ...

When Mead and Westvaco—the country’s two largest forest products and packaging companies at the time—merged in early 2002, Jim McGrane, then the vice president of process development at Mead, was ...

It’s been nearly a year since Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) came out. The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT service delivery, was intended to sharpen its focus ...