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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework of best practice approaches intended to facilitate the delivery of high quality information technology (IT) services. ITIL outlines an extensive set of management procedures that are intended to support businesses in achieving both quality and value for money in IT operations. These ITIL procedures are supplier independent and have been developed to provide guidance across the breadth of IT infrastructure, development, and operations.

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A Dynamic Force for Optimizing IT Operations
By : HP Service Management Published Date: May 19, 2008
As IT's role is morphing away from being a cost center towards being a competitive business enabler, making wise investments in technology can enable a more collaborative and automated way of working. See why Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) says HP's integrated ITIL-based service lifecycle approach reflects a strong sense of modularity and flexibility in support of CMDB deployments, intelligent analytics, automation, and business alignment.
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HP Service Management
BlackBerry Platform Management: Mobile User Management with ITIL and ITSM
By : BoxTone Published Date: Apr 16, 2008
For advanced enterprise BlackBerry administrators only. IT Service Management (ITSM) - as defined by the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – is now the required approach to ensure superior BlackBerry service levels at the lowest possible cost. Read this White Paper to see how ITSM/ITIL can transform your approach to mobile user management.
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BoxTone
Configuration and Change Management for IT Compliance and Risk Management
By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 27, 2007
Learn from industry analysts how IT organizations are using configuration management to meet compliance requirements and instill best practices. Find out how these organizations are applying the resulting processes to enhance security and improve operational efficiency in order to increase their level of service delivery.
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Tripwire
Enforcing IT Change Management Policy
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 07, 2007
Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.
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Tripwire
IT Service Management Metrics That Matter
By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 07, 2007
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
IT Asset Management: A Cornerstone for Accelerating ITIL Success
By : CA SM Published Date: Nov 29, 2007
IT Asset Management (ITAM) is a cornerstone of IT Service Management (ITSM) yet is often omitted from existing ITSM implementations or initiatives. Version 3 of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) expands the processes, functions and roles in the service life cycle. However, it still does not provide enough details on key process and functional integration points for ITAM.
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CA SM
Keeping Up Your SOX Compliance and Turning IT into a High Performer by Improving Change Control
By : Tripwire Published Date: Jan 26, 2007
This paper covers the implementation, disclosure and ongoing evaluation of internal controls for SOX compliance with a focus on the role of IT, as well as the penalties for non-compliance.
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Tripwire
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
10 Best Practices for IT Request Management
By : newScale Published Date: Nov 15, 2007
This white paper outlines the challenges associated with IT Request Management and ten best practices that represent the hard-won knowledge from dozens of successful Service Request Management projects. By following these guidelines, your IT organization can provide more responsive service delivery, increase operational efficiency, and improve internal customer satisfaction.
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newScale
2008 IP Telephony Deployment Best Practices
By : Clarus Systems Published Date: Jan 04, 2008
In this document, you'll learn to enable the successful execution and completion of IPT Deployment projects through a standardized set of processes and methodologies based upon Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards.
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Clarus Systems
5 Essential Questions for Choosing an ITIL Service Provider
By : HP Published Date: May 21, 2007
This 2-page paper poses some questions that any company seeking an ITIL service provider should ask of potential vendors.
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HP
9 Steps to Implement a Successful CMDB Project
By : Evergreen Systems, Inc. Published Date: May 16, 2007
Simply click the title to receive this whitepaper which lays out a prescriptive nine-step plan describing how to implement a CMDB, including best practices that may be used to educate staff and design an effective CMDB project plan.
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Evergreen Systems, Inc.
Alcatel-Lucent Case Study
By : HP Published Date: Mar 08, 2007
With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 and increasing competition in the telecommunications market, Alcatel-Lucent was ready to undertake the difficult task of redefining IT to drive competitive advantage for the business.
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HP
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
Benefits to the ITIL Approach to Service Management
By : HP Published Date: Mar 14, 2007
This guide includes a series of articles from CIO.com, providing an overview of ITIL and how organizations are applying it to improve service delivery processes and drive business success. Includes an HP ad and links to HP resources.
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HP
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
CMDB Adoption in the Real World: Just How Real Is It?
By : Tideway Systems Published Date: Jun 15, 2007
This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that's focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB – as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners – read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.
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Tideway Systems
Change Management + Control = Higher Availability
By : Solidcore Published Date: Aug 27, 2007
It is widely acknowledged that unauthorized changes made to an IT Infrastructure cause up to 80% of system unavailability.  Learn how adding change control to your existing or planned change management infrastructure can help improve IT service availability, lower compliance costs, and accelerate your ITIL implementations.
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Solidcore
Can You Really Get ITIL Out of the Box?
By : BMC Software Published Date: Apr 23, 2007
You don’t have to be skeptic of the ITIL implementation promises. This paper from BMC Software examines the people, processes, and technology issues associated with getting ITIL up and running in your organization. It also demonstrates how you can obtain technology that addresses those issues and delivers a substantial portion of ITIL right out of the box.
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BMC Software
CMDB: Cornerstone of ITIL-based Integrated Service Support
By : BMC Software Published Date: Sep 14, 2005
A CMDB, when used in support of ITIL best practices, is the cornerstone of IT Service Support, providing a centralized view of IT data that is essential to delivering consistent, reliable, effective, and efficient service to your business customers.
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BMC Software
Developing the Business Value of ITIL
By : Evergreen Systems, Inc. Published Date: Nov 01, 2006
This white paper, a sequel to 'Developing the Business Value of ITIL Part 1', focuses on the importance of developing a business case, and an ROI (return on investment) to justify ITIL best practice initiatives.  Survey results are included from Evergreen Systems' last survey on when, how and why companies develop business case metrics to justify ITIL initiatives.
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Evergreen Systems, Inc.
Enhance BMC Change Management with Closed-Loop Control
By : Solidcore Published Date: Jan 21, 2008
Are you about to implement change management using BMC Remedy Service Management or BMC IT Service Management for Mid-sized Businesses (a.k.a. Magic or Service Desk Express)? Have you already implemented one of these systems and want to maximize the return on your investment? Get this white paper to see how others have optimized their change management implementation approach to derive the most value from their investment by adding closed-loop control.
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Solidcore
First American Corporation Success Story
By : HP Published Date: Jul 14, 2005
First American Corporation utilized HP's High Performance ITSM Simulation and education services to allow IT staff to experience firsthand how ITIL processes dramatically improve business performance.
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HP
Gaining Business Value Through ITSM: The HP Approach
By : HP Published Date: Jun 08, 2006
IT organizations need to improve IT operations and align IT with business needs. Read about three HP customers that are implementing solutions that improve IT compliance, increase ROI and support higher availability.

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HP
How to Get ITIL Done
By : Opalis Published Date: Aug 10, 2006
This paper explains how ITIL can improve service delivery through data center integration and automation of best practices. It also highlights common implementation hazards, real-world examples and the tools required to implement ITIL.
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Opalis