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The term Service Management is most widely used as the component of Operations Support Systems responsible for service delivery, such as order management, inventory management, provisioning and activation, network topology management and maintenance, and stability/performance diagnostics of communication service providers and their networks. A service management system automates manual operations of the network, delivery services, and support, making these areas more efficient and error-free.

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IT Service Management- Metrics That Matter
By : Tripwire, Inc. Published Date: Sep 10, 2008
Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.
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Tripwire, Inc.
Application Performance Management: Managing High-Performing, Business-Critical Web Applications
By : CA APM Published Date: Aug 22, 2008
Increasing reliance on web-based applications has had significant implications for both IT staff and business managers. IT’s primary responsibility and ongoing challenge is to provide a reliable high-performance web applications services environment, an environment that ensures the end user’s ability to successfully interact with web applications while enabling IT to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Anything less than superior application performance can have immediate consequences.
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CA APM
Empowerment as a Growth Strategy
By : Oracle Corp. Published Date: Sep 30, 2008
Companies are using technology and other tools to help employees deliver an organization’s best collective thinking during each customer interaction. Among them is Hewlett-Packard (HP), which we will feature in this white paper. We will also explain why empowering your key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary, sustainable results, and we’ll provide four best practices on how to do it.
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Oracle Corp.
High Availability: Is it Sufficient for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?
By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
For mission-critical IT, service outages and data loss pose serious consequences.  This white paper examines how availability management, disaster recovery and business continuity support one another and offers insight to find success at all of them.
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Stratus Technologies
HP Mission Critical Proactive Services - Transport Manufacturing Case Study
By : HP Published Date: Jul 21, 2008
This case study highlights how a leading transportation firm uses executive financial incentives to insure the highest system uptime for its customers. With the need to keep thousands of vehicles and employees on the move and process millions of daily transactions, keeping mission critical systems running is essential for financial performance.

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HP
Insights to Accelerate Services Growth
By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Jun 20, 2008
As a Services Executive are you struggling with questions regarding what to measure, how to effectively engage with your customers, and what information should be leveraged and shared with service-chain partners and customers? Leading edge organizations are making tools and data available to their suppliers and customers with aggregated information from multiple data systems. Service-chain partners and customer personnel can now see the same views of service performance and activity. This is the next frontier to creating customer "stickiness" and business growth.

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Oco, Inc.
ITSM: It's About Managing Change
By : HP Published Date: Jan 16, 2007
This white paper describes critical steps IT executives must take to prepare for change and manage an ITSM implementation to maximize its value and ensure that it achieves the full transformation effect it is capable of delivering. IT Service Management (ITSM) is a proven and effective framework for helping IT organizations become more adaptive, flexible, cost effective, and service oriented.
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HP
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Enterprise Performance and Scalability
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 25, 2004
Read how demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; and better understand their markets and customers.
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Microsoft
Mission Critical Webcast
By : HP Published Date: Jul 11, 2008
Join IDC and HP on this webcast about Mission Critical Services. Matt Healey of IDC provides insights on the adoption of consolidation, virtualization and Service Oriented Architecture as aggressive strategies to align IT more closely with business goals.
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HP
Operational IT Service Management (ITSM)
By : HP Published Date: Dec 12, 2006
This white paper explores the advantages of Operational ITSM- through incremental and continual improvement of service management practices on an ongoing basis. IT organizations must evolve into trusted service providers that adapt quickly, offer cost-effective, reliable, and flexible services to meet today's business initiatives. This evolution is not easy. It requires that the IT organization adopt an IT Service Management (ITSM) framework. Operational ITSM provides an incremental approach for companies that may not have the resources to finance and staff a large ITSM project.
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HP
The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation
By : HP Service Management Published Date: Jul 16, 2008
In this first chapter of "The Shortcut Guide to IT Service Management and Automation," you will be led through a step by step analysis of your company's IT and business relationships, providing you with a basis for a strategic plan to turn service lifecycle management into a valuable business asset. Author and compliance expert Rebecca Herold demonstrates how technology acts as a strategic differentiator by enabling business growth, driving operational efficiencies to lower maintenance costs, optimizing outcomes, and reducing IT risks.
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HP Service Management
Tackling Increasing SMF Data Volumes and Decreasing Resources in the Mainframe Environment
By : CA Mainframe Published Date: Jun 20, 2008
Increasing infrastructure complexity has led to unprecedented growth in enterprise systems management data on all systems, including the mainframe and it is becoming more complex to manage SMF data.  Download this Technology Brief to learn how to address the complexity of managing SMF data.
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CA Mainframe
Butler Group on iWay Service Manager
By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006
iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.
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iWay Software
The Emerging IT Shift Toward Business Service Configuration Management
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 05, 2007
IT organizations continue to struggle with manual tasks and processes, subjective change decision making, and a lack of insight into inventories and service dependencies. Learn three product capabilities IT organizations should have, as well as the critical pieces of business service configuration management.
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HP BladeSystem
Automate Now! Achieve Immediate Cost, Productivity and Security Benefits by Automating IT
By : KACE Published Date: Aug 23, 2006
This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper takes a close look at automated IT management, especially for  medium-sized businesses.
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KACE
An Opportunistic Entry Point into IT Process Automation
By : LANDesk Published Date: Nov 16, 2006
As IT departments work to transition from "firefighting mode" to becoming more proactive and responsive, a key step along the path is to implement labor-saving automation tools that allow more tasks to be done more rapidly, using fewer resources and with greater predictability and reliability.
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LANDesk
A Guide to SOA Implementation
By : Torry Harris Business Solutions Published Date: Jan 01, 2006

The information overload on SOA is largely on describing its merits, its principles and the vast variety of products intended to address its needs. This document is written to identify the factors to be considered, and articulate the principles and questions to be asked that will drive the decisions within each enterprise towards creating a road map for implementation.


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Torry Harris Business Solutions
AT Kearney: Building a Platform for Better Gov't Services at Lower Cost
By : SAP Published Date: Jun 04, 2007
An AT Kearney 2007 study on shared services in government. The image of the public sector as slow to innovate is rapidly becoming a thing of the past as governments are using advanced technology to consolidate back-office functions, concludes this new report. This study, conducted independently by A.T. Kearney with sponsorship from Cisco®, has uncovered major service improvements and cost reductions as a result of "shared services".
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SAP
Advanced Meter Infrastructure: Composite Technologies to Meet New Demands in Sales and Service
By : SAP Published Date: Aug 31, 2006
Find out how advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) helps utilities innovate business processes for sales and customer service. Discover what benefits AMI brings and why, and learn how the SAP NetWeaver platform and enterprise service-oriented architecture can support your AMI implementation.
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SAP
Align Your Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 05, 2007
One of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face is a lack of trust in IT’s ability to deliver business value. While a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can sort things out by making systems more flexible and agile, this is only part of the answer. What’s missing is an effective model for engaging consistently with business teams throughout the whole lifecycle of IT investments.
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IBM
Breaking Through the Dissimilar Hardware Challenge
By : Symantec Published Date: Aug 30, 2006
IT administrators need to minimize downtime for critical IT services by rapidly recovering entire systems to dissimilar hardware platforms or virtual environments. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition combines the speed and reliability of disk-based, bare-metal Windows system recovery with dissimilar hardware restoration and lights-out operation.
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Symantec
Bringing Humanity Back to the Web
By : Live Person Published Date: Nov 14, 2006
In today’s world, it may seem like there is barely enough time to stay on top of running a business, let alone for perceived luxuries like personal interaction over every transaction. This white paper looks at the benefits of combining two popular online communication tools- email marketing and live chat - to boost customer loyalty and retention.
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Live Person
Business Process Management: The Key to ITIL Success
By : LANDesk Published Date: Dec 11, 2006
This white paper describes how ITIL implementation can be rendered simpler, faster, more effective and more affordable by combining new service-oriented Business Process Management (BPM) tools with the established functionality of task-oriented IT management software.

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LANDesk
Bridging the Value Gap Between IT and Business
By : IBM Published Date: Apr 05, 2007
Why is it that business and IT teams always seem to be at odds with one another? In this IBM white paper, Macehiter Ward-Dutton, specialists in IT business alignment, give a step-by-step explanation of how to make long-term improvements in the relationship between business and IT.
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IBM
BMC Software Solutions Integrate and Automate ITIL Best Practices
By : BMC Software Published Date: Jun 29, 2005
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management. ITIL defines terminology and processes across IT organizations by providing a common language and set of standards for quality IT service. If you are looking to implement ITIL, it is crucial that you understand how specific solutions support ITIL guidelines.
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BMC Software
 
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