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The Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) is a standardized model for organizations to guide their transformation to a service based business model.By having a standard maturity model, it becomes possible for the organizations or industry to benchmark their SIMM levels, to have a roadmap for transformation to assist their planning and for vendors to offer services and software against ...
'Service' in this context should not be confused with the IT meanings of 'service', such as a web service. This is somewhat confused by ITIL also recommending the adoption of service-oriented architecture, as expounded by OASIS. [4] In most technical contexts, SOA is widely assumed to imply the provision and interconnection of technical services.
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]
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.
A process assessment is conducted to get a clear view of the current practices in an organization in a particular domain (e.g. the IT service management domain in TIPA for ITIL). The goal is to compare these practices to a renowned reference so that the current status of the processes can be measured and appropriate suggestions for process ...
ISO/IEC 15504 is the reference model for the maturity models (consisting of capability levels which in turn consist of the process attributes and further consist of generic practices) against which the assessors can place the evidence that they collect during their assessment, so that the assessors can give an overall determination of the organization's capabilities for delivering products ...
A maturity model is a framework for measuring an organization's maturity, or that of a business function within an organization, [1] with maturity being defined as a measurement of the ability of an organization for continuous improvement in a particular discipline (as defined in O-ISM3 [dubious – discuss]). [2]
The ITIL version 2 Business Perspective [10] and Application Management [11] volumes and the ITIL v3 Service Strategy volume also cover it in depth. Various vendors have offerings explicitly branded as "IT Portfolio Management" solutions. ISACA's Val IT framework is perhaps the first attempt at standardization of IT portfolio management principles.