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.…

UK - Prospective suppliers to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will shortly be expected to standardize their service offerings to conform to the MoJ's ITIL best management practices.   The MoJ National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is spending three hundred million pounds on an IT transition…

Having studied and applied ITIL over many years,ÂI have never spotted one outstanding benefit, but apparently it can assist you if you decide to run for a Council seat !   Chad Cooper in Brighton City, Michigan (MI) is doing exactly that. Chad holds…

In support of the Australian government's Digital Education Revolution (DER) initiative, the itSMF Australia chapter has introduced a new membership category for schools to improve the delivery of IT services to students.   Schools will be provided with access to knowledge and increased awareness as to…

Assistance in raising the awareness of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is being provided by Hewlett Packard (HP) who is delivering a series of ITIL awareness sessions with Softline, an IT specialist in Azerbaijan. The sessions cover both ITIL and Project Management Professional (PMP).  

Gartner's vice president Jay Pultz states that IT Infrastructure and Operations (I & O) represents 60 per cent of total IT spending worldwide. Pultz goes onto state that I & O cost savings of 10 per cent in twelve months and up to 25 per cent in three…