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How To Develop a Service Catalog

Evergreen Systems, Inc.
By : Evergreen Systems, Inc.
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Published : Oct 30, 2006
Length : 2
Type : White Paper
 
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This white paper discusses how to develop a service catalog, leveraging ITIL and CobiT best practices, and lays out eight steps towards developing one, beginning with taxonomy via service definitions and addressing services and service 'families'. 

Reasons for developing service catalogs are explored and some attention given to scoping the effort, aligning the service catalog with ITIL best practices and utilizing templates.  The use of toolkits are discussed for the development of service level agreements (SLAs) and operational level agreements (OLAs) as well as tools for automated population of service level templates.

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Service Catalog:

A Service Catalog provides the customer one location to view and order services provided by IT. It also organizes and bundles "services" in a way that customers understand and use them.

ITIL Service Catalogs should provide details about the characteristics of the services, including Service Level Requirements, Service Level Agreements and even internal Operational Agreements.

IT organizations use Service Catalogs to rationalize end-user demand through the establishment of service and vendor standards and to optimize that demand based on business planning and spending. Service Catalogs also help IT organizations control service usage by using request management and compliance procedures to maximize and automate workflow.

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