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Information Technology And Service Management

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What is ITIL? Information technology infrastructure library gives businesses a set of best practices and theories to adopt in order to sustain and develop a successful IT service management function. ITIL has been created by the UK government’s central Computer Telecommunication agency, which is not only used by the UK but internationally by government bodies to commercial organizations (Wheatcroft, 2007). The framework covers best practices for 13 service level management processes, which are crucial for every day business functions, which include: • Availability management • Service level management • Incident management • Problem management • Financial management • Configuration management • Capacity management • Change management • Continuity management • Release management • Knowledge management • IT service continuity management • Security Management As it would be inconvenient to have 13 publications, these processes have been merged together to create 5 publications that make up ITIL: • Service strategy, focuses on creating a set of IT services for the customer based on their requirements (Knapp, 2014). • Service design focuses on the development and maintenance of these services (Knapp, 2014). • Service transition focuses on these new services and adjustment to the company, without causing disruption (Knapp, 2014). • Service operation focuses on creating effective IT support for these IT services (Knapp, 2014). • Continual service improvements focus on

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