How to Catalog Your Cloud

Join ITSM industry luminary Robert Stroud, CA Technologies, for an informative presentation on the key considerations for a Cloud-based Service Desk, followed by a demonstration of Nimsoft Service Desk, the CA Technologies SaaS service management offering.

Topics include:
What are the opportunities with a change to SaaS-based Service Desk?
What are the challenges? Multiple solution choices, technical requirement alignment, compliance and security, and of course, reducing costs.
What key benefits can be expected? Things like lower total cost of ownership, increased time to value, rapid installation and deployment, and increased business flexibility.

Is your organization in the middle of a long running ITIL implementation that is failing to deliver the benefits, or are you playing with DevOps to solve the problems of continuous innovation that ITIL doesn't solve or are you simply concerned about what will take place after the recent ownership announcements? No matter which, it is clear that the ITIL framework must evolve or it will die. In this webinar Rob Stroud examines the current state of ITIL in today’s IT-enabled businesses and explores some of the challenges ITIL faces as businesses demand more agility and rapid-time-to-market from their IT organizations, and why there’s hope for ITIL.

BYOD is inevitable and unstoppable. Maybe even uncontrollable and unmanageable. But is it the real issue? We seem to be very interested in mobile device management and security risks and data breaches, as, of course, we should be. But, isn’t the real issue the fact that traditional IT is fast becoming irrelevant. Nearly all of us use our personal devices for work and have multiple personal clouds full of data – personal and business. Today’s users believe that they need traditional IT less than before. Crowdsourcing is replacing the Service Desk while Web self-service is replacing live people. But, there’s more to running IT than mobile device buzz words and doom & gloom blogs and tweets. Check out this webinar with CA Technologies & Pink Elephant to find out what’s really happening and what IT can do to embrace this new world. 1 PriSM CPD.

What if you could gain valuable insights into who was using your services. Understand the full cost of service delivery and enable decision making?

In this session I intend to discuss how we go about enabling financial transparency through the effective implementation of a Service Catalog and also how we can use consumption data to ensure we attribute costs fairly across the business and ensure appropriate accountability for IT spending.

With many organisations looking to gain competitive advantage while simultaneously saving cash through cloud based technologies, how can you be sure that service quality will not be compromised in these austere times? In this session we will be looking at how through the use of "business outcomes" the paradigm of delivering more with less can really be achieved.

I'd rather be looking at it than looking for it! Advantages of an End-to-End, properly integrated Service Management Solution.

Consider the advantages of a Service Desk system where you have all the Processes/modules in a single integrated solution. Reduce cost and complexity by not purchasing additional modules and integrating them into your existing solutions AND processes. This allows you to plan your processes and work flow end-to-end. Even if you don't intend using problem or change straight away you can plan work flow with them in mind. You also have common data behind the processes. So Configuration, Knowledge and service level management can be applied to all processes with consistency and dependability. This allows the customer to be more flexible and use the system to achieve their objectives. It also delivers more value from Knowledge and CMDB as these functions are tightly integrated to the process and delivers the information to where it is useful; the ticket level where it is used to resolve incidents or implement changes etc. Implementing Service Desk takes a huge amount of effort on the customer's side and dealing with an overly complex system (possibly in several modules) compounds this and elevates the project from complex to complicated. Particularly when the customer has the option of delivery across a true SaaS platform a single, scalable, integrated, flexible solution allows the customer to put his effort into his processes where it creates the most value for them.

To continue providing strategic business value, IT must make operational and business choices to transform how it delivers services to the business. This session will explore the convergence of significant trends including:

1) the "Consumerization" of IT services
2) the evolution of IT into a broker of services and
3) the expanding new generation of "social-media-oriented employees"

This session will cover the Characteristics and benefits of a hosted, an On-premise, or a SaaS Service Management solution. Detailed information is also provided on the key factors to consider when transitioning from an On-premise to a SaaS solution.

You've built out an ITSM fabric to monitor your infrastructure, applications, services, and to support processes such as incident, change, and service request management but there's something missing.  Why is a big chunk of your mean-time-to-repair for high severity issues still mean-time-to-respond?  Why do people call IT executives to complain about poor service quality because they don't know about outages?  Why do your service level stats still not represent the real time to restore services?

IT organizations are increasingly under intense pressure to deliver more with less. This usually means either looking at standardizing existing offerings resulting in reduced choice or measuring the service quality and set service pricing by level of quality, which means higher prices for higher service levels.

This webcast will discuss
−How to create and define meaningful service definitions
−The impact on business user behaviours
−Tips on measuring service levels

Services defined in the catalog with well thought out service levels and appropriate pricing can greatly help to control IT costs. Measuring and reporting on these services can help bridge the gap between IT and the business.

Doing the right things in a dynamically changing business environment with old acquaintances like cost reduction, improvement of quality and efficiency and new opportunities like Virtualisation, Software as a Service and Cloud Computing obviously requires more and better strategic planning instruments.
Service Portfolio Management seems to be the answer, but it means different things to different people. ITIL Version 3 introduces a Service Portfolio Management Process. How can this help to improve strategic planning and align IT with the business? How does it integrate with IT Service Management? What does it take to implement Service Portfolio Management?

When looking at what services you need to invest in for the future prosperity of your organisation, how can you be sure you are make the right decisions? How can you make better more informed decisions about insourcing or Cloud sourcing your services? And how can you smoothly transition from one service to another? Join Rod Bridgman Principal Consultant at CA Technologies to explore these issues and how to resolve them.

Reducing call volume and improving first contact resolution rate are important for customer satisfaction. Every organization should make a serious effort to address this in their Service Desk. In this webinar Rama Varsani will share how you could successfully improve internal IT achieving these goals by focusing on self service adoption, knowledge management, and improving Problem Management.

Service Level Management is too often seen as an ‘optional extra’ for organizations. However, the business model is changing for astute enterprises, mandating the need to become more SLM centric for business service providers and receivers with ‘the Cloud’ in mind …this short webinar will investigate the drivers for this phenomenon and what can be done to deliver effective SLM rapidly.

Join Kulvinder Bhupal from CA Technologies as he discusses how to catalog your cloud offerings and publish out IT/Cloud infrastructure services for business consumption.

As more and more organisations turn to the promise that cloud computing offers, one of the major challenges is how IT present and manage these services for easy business consumption. The aim being that we want to use these services as we would any common household utility.

This webcast will discuss how to:
•create and define cloud and infrastructure services to be relevant and meaningful
•organise and publish these out to the business to enable simplified self-service
•manage the service lifecycle from approvals through to provisioning and to decommissioning

The benefits of this are that your business service consumers can readily understand and access the cloud based services that are available to them and at what cost and service level. The request process is automated increasing IT agility with reduced service support costs.

Some of the main reasons organizations look at cloud services are flexibility and agility. Get a service provisioned – exactly at the time you need it; give it back when it is no longer required; pay only for what you have used, and if your requirements changes - someone in the cloud is already waiting to serve you immediately.

But, this ideal world can only work if you can easily find a service that meets your requirements, if it doesn‘t take 3 weeks and a tree’s worth of paper to get the approval, and another 3 weeks before the service is finally provided.

ITIL may be a bit theoretical in some areas but it also speaks about very practical things like Request Management. With ITIL good practice in place and the right tooling for automation you can make automating ‘order to delivery’ a reality.

Your presenter:
Dietmar Werner has studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Dresden. After his studies he worked as software developer and development manager at a telecommunications industry company in Germany. Later he joined Digital Equipment and worked as consultant in various positions until he finally managed Digital’s productivity service and outsourcing business in Northern and Eastern Germany. Since 1997 Dietmar has worked for CA. As Principal Consultant he supports CA‘s Technical Sales Organization in IT Asset Management and Service Management projects across Europe.