By Nancy Van Elsacker Louisnord Information technology service management (ITSM) is a framework for delivering technology within a business, and, while often interchanged with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the two are very different.  ITSM is obviously the organizational implementation of a management model used to design,…

Project management is one of the most important skills that a professional can have. Effective project management helps to ensure that all tasks within a certain project are completed within set timescales and are completed to or under budget. This helps to streamline processes within a business, while also helping…

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It appears that some organizations are starting to realise that the SIAM model adopted some years ago when it was the fad, is not all it was cracked up to be.   Organizations saw SIAM as the opportunity to reduce costs and offload the responsibilities of…

Every business could benefit greatly from using technology in one way or another. A survey conducted by AT&T and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, found that smartphones alone save business owners 1.24 Billion hours a year, while mobile technologies save small businesses more than USD 65 Billion a year.…

AXELOS is to make ITIL® Practitioner – the new certification of the world's most widely adopted service management framework – available in German, Japanese, French and Latin American Spanish as part of an ongoing international expansion. ITIL Practitioner is the most significant recent evolution in the ITIL® best practice…

It may appear to be stating the obvious but when considering a new or replacement Service Management tool it is paramount that as an organization you define your existing and/or future Service Operating model. The model should assist with understanding how the organization plans to operate and highlight expectations of…

WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - Rob Carey, the Department of Defense (DoD) deputy chief information officer, during a keynote session of the ACT/IAC Executive Leadership Conference, stated that the Defense Department is planning to make greater use of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) practices.   The ITIL…

UNICOM Systems, Inc. based in Mission Hills California USA, develops and markets a multitude of open systems software products has acquired iET Solutions for an undisclosed figure. iET develops IT service management (ITSM) solutions, which assist organizations to obtain and maintain compliance with IT standards such as ITIL.…