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An IT service catalog is a subset of an enterprise service catalog and is defined by ITIL, by the book Service Design, to be an exhaustive list of IT-only services that an organization provides or offers to its employees or customers. The catalog is the only part of the Service Portfolio that is published to customers and is used to support the ...
The Service Portfolio is described in the ITIL books Service Strategy and Service Design. [1] The Service Portfolio is the core repository for all information for all services in an organization. Each service is listed along with its current status and history. The main descriptor in the Service Portfolio is the Service Design Package (SDP). [2]
It is the central reference point for all documentation of a service, so it contains many links to other documents. A description of the sort of information that should be kept in an SDP is found in Appendix A of the Service Design book. [1] The main categories described are: Service lifecycle plan; Service programme; Service transition plan
ITIL (previously and also known as Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a framework with a set of practices (previously processes) for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus on aligning IT services with the needs of the business.
Service Manager is an ITSM Tool using the ITIL framework providing a web interface for corporate changes, releases and interactions (request fulfillment) supported by a Service catalog and CMDB. For a summary of the functionality, screenshots , data sheets , white papers and more information refer to the sources listed above.
A configuration management database (CMDB) is an ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets (commonly referred to as configuration items). It is useful to break down configuration items into logical layers. [1]
Beginning in September 2005, HP purchased several software companies as part of a publicized, deliberate strategy to augment its catalog of IT management software offerings for large business customers. [3] According to ZDNet and IDC, HP is the world's sixth largest software company. [4] [5]
A service wrap is a set of non-core services which are bundled with a core service to form a complete package of services that are sold. For example, if the service sold is an IT service (such as a cloud computing service), the service wrap included the governance of that service, such as service monitoring tools.