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4 Key ITSM Solutions

Dennis Rietvink

To stay competitive, organizations need to constantly evolve and improve all aspects of their businesses. They also have to engage measurable practices to ensure that all implemented changes are cost-effective and vital for their businesses.

ITSM, or IT Service Management, is a modern approach to planning, implementing and managing IT services of an agile, service-oriented organization. The practice is business, rather than technology-centered. IT services add the most value when they are in complete alignment with the needs of an organization. Otherwise, they impede a company's ability to react to market changes, put a strain on the budget, and, ultimately, result in dissatisfied customers and lost business opportunities.

The ability to measure progress and calculate ROI of IT projects is an important part of ITSM. Without a clear idea of project costs, organizations can't plan for the future and choose projects that would add the most strategic value at the lowest cost.

Organizations interested in implementing ITSM practices can follow the ITSM guidelines presented in three frameworks:

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) consists of five books - Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement. The books are published to help organizations design, deploy, as well as measure the impact of their ITSM projects.

MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework) includes a number of guides to help design and deploy IT services in the most effective and affordable way. The guides break down the process into three phases - the Plan Phase, the Deliver Phase, and the Operate Phase.

COBIT (Control Objective for Information and Related Technology) offers guides on the ways to align IT objectives with business goals. It breaks down the process into four steps - Plan and Organize, Acquire and Implement, Deliver and Support, and Monitor and Evaluate.

ITSM frameworks are not dependent on one particular technology. The idea is to choose systems and applications that fit best the unique needs of each organization. The winning combination can include several products and services that deliver the best result at the lowest cost.

Some IT solutions can support a number of objectives of ITSM. A comprehensive infrastructure monitoring solution enables organizations to oversee in real time the performance of critical applications to ensure that all business processes are running smoothly.

Four key solutions that help deliver ITSM benefits include the following:

1. Distributed Application Monitoring

By monitoring groups of applications and processes, rather than individual components, an organization can get a better insight into its current business situation, since IT managers can instantly see how the monitored items are connected. The system can separate minor events that can wait to get fixed, from major accidents that require IT managers' immediate attention to prevent a major outage.

2. Notifications

Notifications can be forwarded to IT managers using email, IM, or SMS, ensuring that the right individuals are alerted about any potential problems right away.

3. Historical Data Collection

Historical Data Collection allows IT managers to generate reports on past events, analyze them, and draw conclusions to prevent similar problems from happening in the future.

4. End-user Monitoring

End-user Monitoring enables IT managers to ensure that the end users are not experiencing application performance issues.

ITSM practices can help organizations create flexible and productive IT environments aligned with each organization's unique business goals. There are a lot of solutions that offer a wealth of monitoring features to enable businesses to implement some of the basic principles of ITSM straight away.

Dennis Rietvink is Co-Founder and VP of Product Management at Savision

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4 Key ITSM Solutions

Dennis Rietvink

To stay competitive, organizations need to constantly evolve and improve all aspects of their businesses. They also have to engage measurable practices to ensure that all implemented changes are cost-effective and vital for their businesses.

ITSM, or IT Service Management, is a modern approach to planning, implementing and managing IT services of an agile, service-oriented organization. The practice is business, rather than technology-centered. IT services add the most value when they are in complete alignment with the needs of an organization. Otherwise, they impede a company's ability to react to market changes, put a strain on the budget, and, ultimately, result in dissatisfied customers and lost business opportunities.

The ability to measure progress and calculate ROI of IT projects is an important part of ITSM. Without a clear idea of project costs, organizations can't plan for the future and choose projects that would add the most strategic value at the lowest cost.

Organizations interested in implementing ITSM practices can follow the ITSM guidelines presented in three frameworks:

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) consists of five books - Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement. The books are published to help organizations design, deploy, as well as measure the impact of their ITSM projects.

MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework) includes a number of guides to help design and deploy IT services in the most effective and affordable way. The guides break down the process into three phases - the Plan Phase, the Deliver Phase, and the Operate Phase.

COBIT (Control Objective for Information and Related Technology) offers guides on the ways to align IT objectives with business goals. It breaks down the process into four steps - Plan and Organize, Acquire and Implement, Deliver and Support, and Monitor and Evaluate.

ITSM frameworks are not dependent on one particular technology. The idea is to choose systems and applications that fit best the unique needs of each organization. The winning combination can include several products and services that deliver the best result at the lowest cost.

Some IT solutions can support a number of objectives of ITSM. A comprehensive infrastructure monitoring solution enables organizations to oversee in real time the performance of critical applications to ensure that all business processes are running smoothly.

Four key solutions that help deliver ITSM benefits include the following:

1. Distributed Application Monitoring

By monitoring groups of applications and processes, rather than individual components, an organization can get a better insight into its current business situation, since IT managers can instantly see how the monitored items are connected. The system can separate minor events that can wait to get fixed, from major accidents that require IT managers' immediate attention to prevent a major outage.

2. Notifications

Notifications can be forwarded to IT managers using email, IM, or SMS, ensuring that the right individuals are alerted about any potential problems right away.

3. Historical Data Collection

Historical Data Collection allows IT managers to generate reports on past events, analyze them, and draw conclusions to prevent similar problems from happening in the future.

4. End-user Monitoring

End-user Monitoring enables IT managers to ensure that the end users are not experiencing application performance issues.

ITSM practices can help organizations create flexible and productive IT environments aligned with each organization's unique business goals. There are a lot of solutions that offer a wealth of monitoring features to enable businesses to implement some of the basic principles of ITSM straight away.

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The perception of IT has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. What was once viewed primarily as a cost center has transformed into a pivotal force driving business innovation and market leadership ... As someone who has witnessed and helped drive this evolution, it's become clear to me that the most successful organizations share a common thread: they've mastered the art of leveraging IT advancements to achieve measurable business outcomes ...

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Real privacy protection thanks to technology and processes is often portrayed as too hard and too costly to implement. So the most common strategy is to do as little as possible just to conform to formal requirements of current and incoming regulations. This is a missed opportunity ...

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