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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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Kansas: State of Network Efficiency
By : HP Software Published Date: Apr 25, 2008
View this HP customer case study and learn how HP Network Lifecycle Management software helps reduce the complexity of a State’s network management environment.
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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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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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7 Virtues of Virtualization: Avoiding Deadly Mistakes that Doom Business-Critical Service Management
By : Stratus Technologies Published Date: Nov 21, 2007
Disaster recovery and business continuity top the list of server virtualization drivers.  And, the stakes are even higher when you virtualize business-critical IT services.  Explore the role that proper project planning and management play in keeping these initiatives on track.
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Stratus Technologies
Reducing Risk Through Requirements-Driven Quality Management: An End-to-End Approach
By : HP Software Published Date: May 25, 2007
Learn how to trace requirements from definition to release give IT and business managers real data to support decisions.
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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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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
Business Benefits of Business Service Automation: An In-Depth Customer Survey
By : HP Software Published Date: May 31, 2008
What can you really expect from the use of HP Business Service Automation? HP customers share real results!

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Delivering SOA Solutions: Service Lifecycle Management
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 12, 2007
Introducing SOA into an IT organization demands both structural and policy changes, as it brings new demands for alignment among multiple processes within different areas of the business. The governance policies, procedures, rules and standards required to help an SOA deliver business benefits—greater flexibility, productivity and financial returns—are complex and can quickly become overwhelming without adequate infrastructure support.
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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
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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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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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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IBM WebSphere Application Server family
By : IBM Published Date: Oct 09, 2007
Today’s organizations face a tough set of challenges. Markets around the world have become increasingly volatile. Competition is more intense. Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures demand revisions in business plans and the IT infrastructures that support them. And IT departments have to keep doing more— and better — with budgets and resources that are already stretched to the limit.

To meet these critical challenges, your organization needs much greater flexibility in its business models and business processes. For IT, a flexible infrastructure has become essential to capitalize on changing market opportunities and to manage costs in the face of increased budgetary pressures.
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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
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
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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Managing End-To-End Infrastructure and Critical Applications
By : PerformanceIT Published Date: May 08, 2006
With the current demands on today's CIO and IT Managers, implementing a top notch, easy-to-use proactive network, application and server support structure that meets budgetary confines can seem like a daunting task. Until now...
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PerformanceIT
Major Initiative Success through Micro-Projects
By : Borland Published Date: Jun 01, 2006
Learn how you can mitigate risk and accelerate value delivery of large-scale IT initiatives. A complete Project and Portfolio Management solution allows you to approach daunting projects as a manageable portfolio of "micro-projects."
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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
3 Tips for Cutting Server Downtime by 50%
By : uptime software Published Date: Nov 16, 2007
Discover the three key reasons that lead to enterprise downtime and how you can cut your downtime by 50%. See how you can use proactive strategies to avoid these tips in your organization.
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Manage IT from a Business Perspective: Latest Best Practices from ITIL
By : BMC Software Published Date: Mar 20, 2007
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the standard for IT best practices. One of the core books, entitled Business Perspective: The IS View on Delivering Services to the Business, focuses on the importance of managing IT resources based on what is important to the business. Business Service Management (BSM) solutions from BMC Software enable the key concepts of this business perspective approach and help IT organizations identify the best technology solution to support the business.
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