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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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Ogilvy & Mather's File Transfer Solution
By : Accellion Technologies Published Date: Apr 07, 2005
Get the inside view of how Ogilvy & Mather transitioned from an FTP, email, and CD burning based file transfer procedures to Accellion's Courier FTA while increasing user satisfaction and decreasing the IT management burden.
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Accellion Technologies
More than a Financial Requirement
By : Aprimo, Inc. Published Date: Jul 27, 2007
Aprimo manages the financial aspects of your marketing process and captures information about each marketing project, which facilitates Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. It puts into place detailed procedures to manage access rights, to create and document business rules that apply to marketing projects and to ensure appropriate review and approval.
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Aprimo, Inc.
A One-Stop-Shop for Marketing Operations at BearingPoint, Inc.
By : Aprimo, Inc. Published Date: Nov 25, 2008
BearingPoint wanted a “one-stop-shop” for its growing marketing organization that was easy to setup and didn’t require a lot of resources. A tool was needed to help with the wide-range of marketing activities that satisfied the needs of the entire marketing team. This system needed to easily handle financial and legal requests, capture campaign and event data, support creative development and reduce manual processes that contributed to the lagging of concrete knowledge of their marketing budgets and spending at any given point in time.
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Aprimo, Inc.
Direct Marketing Wins….with Enterprise Campaign Management
By : Aprimo, Inc. Published Date: Sep 08, 2008
LendingTree wanted to leverage and increase its strong brand awareness by putting the right tools in place to create a marketing-driven technology system.
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Aprimo, Inc.
Class of Service: Myths and Misconceptions
By : AT&T Published Date: Aug 14, 2007
Class of Service (CoS) functionality can help optimize network performance. For a successful deployment, network designers should identify all applications, understand requirements associated with each application, designate appropriate mapping for groups of applications and provide mechanisms in the underlying network to deliver CoS. CoS mapping and deployment are important; adhering to tested strategies and avoiding common misconceptions helps IT managers advance optimization across the wide area network.
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AT&T
Centralized Data Center Management Software: Best Practices to Control Your Data Center
By : Avocent Published Date: May 11, 2006
This white paper details best practices for achieving secure access to any server or network device from a single interface in your data center. Topics covered include centralized access and control, integrating management tools, KVM server management, serial over IP, power management over IP, and full remote access.
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Avocent
Implementing General IT Controls for Sarbanes-Oxley: Merging People, Processes and Technology
By : BMC Software Published Date: Nov 07, 2005
Achieving and maintaining compliance with the general IT controls specified in Section 404 of Sarbox involves far more than just establishing rigid control over various processes and access to information. It requires merging people, processes and technology into a unified, enterprise-wide compliance effort.
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BMC Software
Swing into Business Service Management: Seven Strategies for Enabling IT to Activate the Business
By : BMC Software Published Date: Nov 07, 2005
This white paper from BMC Software reviews how IT organizations can become more responsive to business needs, and accelerate the business by following the same steps that people would use when trying to improve the way they play golf.
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BMC Software
Streamline IT Service Management (ITSM) and Workflow with BMC
By : BMC Software Published Date: Apr 24, 2006
Learn how BMC IT Service management and Transaction Management solutions provide a single, integrated view of your transactional data, the end user experience, and the IT infrastructure. Find out how in this white paper from Enterprise Management Associates.
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BMC Software
7 Strategies for Enabling IT to Activate the Business
By : BMC Software Published Date: Nov 07, 2005
This white paper from BMC Software reviews how IT organizations can become more responsive to Business Service Management needs, and accelerate the business by following the same steps that people would use when trying to improve the way they play golf.
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BMC Software
BMC Software Solutions Integrate and Automate ITIL Best Practices
By : BMC Software Published Date: Jun 29, 2005
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management. ITIL defines terminology and processes across IT organizations by providing a common language and set of standards for quality IT service. If you are looking to implement ITIL, it is crucial that you understand how specific solutions support ITIL guidelines.
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BMC Software
Strategies to Maximize IT Business Value
By : BMC Software Published Date: Aug 07, 2006
The key to maximizing the value of IT is to optimize your IT processes based on a business-aware foundation. Business Service Management (BSM) is the most effective approach for doing just that. Organizations that have begun BSM implementations are already reaping the benefits. Read the BMC white paper to learn more.
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BMC Software
CMDB: Cornerstone of ITIL-based Integrated Service Support
By : BMC Software Published Date: Sep 14, 2005
A CMDB, when used in support of ITIL best practices, is the cornerstone of IT Service Support, providing a centralized view of IT data that is essential to delivering consistent, reliable, effective, and efficient service to your business customers.
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BMC Software
ITIL and CMDB Synergy: Enhanced Service Management
By : BMC Software Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
IT organizations that want to achieve the full business value from their service management initiatives need consistent, current, accurate, and secure information. That’s why an increasing number of these organizations are seriously looking at how a configuration management database (CMDB) can help them manage their infrastructure more effectively.
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BMC Software
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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BMC Software
Streamlining Service Request Processes: A Key to Business Success
By : BMC Software Published Date: May 01, 2007
Imagine being able to give your employees the luxury of one-stop, online shopping for all the services they need.  Now, imagine that you could provide all of your service providers with a centralized location to promote available services to those employees. With service request management technology, you can.
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BMC Software
IT Service Level Agreements: Proving the Business Value of Data Protection
By : Bocada Published Date: Oct 21, 2005
The paper then reveals a methodical, step by step process for implementing an SLA, from drawing up the initial requirements, to using the SLA to drive continuous improvements that are squarely focused on strategic business value.
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Bocada
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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Borland
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
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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CA Mainframe
Enhancing IT Support with Knowledge Management
By : CA SM Published Date: Feb 13, 2008
The potential benefits of adopting a Knowledge Management strategy are significant and have far-reaching implications for a business when implemented correctly. The correct use of Knowledge Management techniques and technology makes a company agile and more responsive to the needs of the customer, resulting in enhanced business performance and greater return on investment.
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CA SM
IT Asset Management: A Cornerstone for Accelerating ITIL Success
By : CA SM Published Date: Nov 29, 2007
IT Asset Management (ITAM) is a cornerstone of IT Service Management (ITSM) yet is often omitted from existing ITSM implementations or initiatives. Version 3 of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) expands the processes, functions and roles in the service life cycle. However, it still does not provide enough details on key process and functional integration points for ITAM.
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CA SM
How to Achieve Sustainable, Competitive Advantage in the Leisure, Entertainment and Travel Industry
By : Easynet Published Date: Dec 21, 2007
Online bookings, billing and ticketing activities lie at the heart of high quality and reliable services in the leisure, entertainment and travel (LET) industry. Indeed, they can effectively act as a primary differentiator in an increasingly competitive and cost-aware environment.
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Easynet
Developing a Business Case for Data Center Transformation Through ITIL Best Practices & Automation
By : Evergreen Systems, Inc. Published Date: Dec 02, 2008
The paper comprehensive white paper applies automation and ITIL best practices to the data center and reviews current industry trends, server automation energy usage issues and a variety of optimization strategies for data center improvement.  The effects of virtualization are explored in-depth.  Includes detailed sections on increasing operational efficiency using workflow analysis, automating and optimizing server change management, reducing infrastructure complexity and developing security, disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.  Step by step instructions for developing metrics and a business case to justify data center and server automation are included.
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Evergreen Systems, Inc.
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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HP
 
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