The world media are having a feeding frenzy after an IT software change at a major banking organization in the UK failed, disrupting many payments into and out of customers accounts, primarily locking their funds for several days.   Numerous stories were published regarding members of the public…

17 April 2012 - ICCM Solutions is set to launch its Deploy & Improve methodology at the 2012 Service Desk & IT Support Show, to maximise the business value realised by customers when replacing legacy service management systems.   The Deploy & Improve methodology has been developed to…

The US Army's move of 1.4 million users to the cloud for email is assisting to fix long-standing process problems across the department. Mike Krieger, the Army's deputy chief information officer, stated the service and its partner, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which is hosting the email…

From January to November 2011 a global total of 224,614 people undertook the ITIL Foundation Examination.   The average percentage who passed was 88%, which equates to roughly 197,660 successful candidates passed the ITIL Foundation Examination.   If you are considering taking the ITIL Foundation Examination…

ITIL Change Management clearly states that all Requests for Change (RFCs) must be approved and authorized in advance of implementation. The speed and effectiveness of the approval and authorization element of the Change Management process can provide the difference between the organization being responsive to market forces, competitive…

OMNITRACKER is more than just a premium IT Service Management tool, it is an extremely flexible, high performance IT platform that currently supports 12 different out-of-the-box and integrated applications, including IT Service Management, Project Management, Requirement Management and Contract Management. All applications can be easily modified and even better, clients…

A must have for anyone studying for the ITIL Foundation Examination, the ITIL Foundation Handbook.   Following on from the release of the revised ITIL 2011 core publications, the ITIL Foundation Handbook has now been updated. The updates are aligned with the new ITIL 2011 syllabus…

Recently ITILnews has been contacted by one of our visitors asking if we could provide any guidance around the costs involved in implementing ITIL into an organization. Due to the variables associated with an organization including, size, location and budget, it is impossible to specify specific costing's. …

As we await details of a free download providing a summary of the updates we have pulled together the following information highlighting some of the high level updates...   ITIL Service Strategy   The concepts have been clarified, without changing the overall message. The…

ITIL 2011: ITIL 2011 is simply a continuous improvement exercise that has incorporated over five hundred changes, plus additional suggestions, roles, process flows, inputs and outputs that have been identified since the launch in 2007.   ITIL 2011 Translations: Translation of the ITIL 2011 Core Publications…