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Configuration Management and the Cloud

Deirdre Conniss, Vice Chair, Transition Management Special Interest Group, itSMF UK
Cloud computing is a hot topic and offers obvious benefits. Configuration management and SACM are ongoing challenges. What impact would adopting a cloud computing approach have on these disciplines? This presentation takes a high level view of some potential issues and suggests what is needed to resolve them.
Jun 16 2011
49 mins
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  • Service Desk : Springboard for a Service Management Career May 14 2014 10:00 am UTC 45 mins
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  • Catalog or IT Portal: Putting Catalogs in Context of Interfacing w/ the Business Recorded: Apr 10 2014 46 mins
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  • How Service Catalogs Make IT a Better Enterprise Business Partner Recorded: Apr 10 2014 47 mins
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  • Designing a Service Portal from the Outside-In Recorded: Apr 10 2014 49 mins
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  • Service Catalog: Just Because You Build It, Doesn’t Mean They’ll Come Recorded: Apr 10 2014 47 mins
    Do you struggle to get people to use online service catalog? You are not alone! Driving user adoption can be challenging. Today, for many organizations the value of service catalog is elusive and even when implemented successfully, its full value is not realized.

    Join us in this insightful discussion that is sure to help you double your service catalog adoption.
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  • Service Catalogue…. The end is nigh? Recorded: Apr 10 2014 46 mins
    A lot of people have said many things about Service Catalogue. But what is the reality? Has the Service Catalogue, as defined by ITIL V3 in 2007, been able to keep up with the demanding, highly tech-savvy, consumerized workforce? As a leading Service Catalogue tool vendor, we see these realities first hand… and we believe the ITIL V3 Service Catalogue is nearing its end!

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  • Getting Started: How to Implement Basic ITIL Request Fulfillment Recorded: Apr 10 2014 45 mins
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  • A Service Catalogue Can Turn Your Service Desk Into a True Business Partner Recorded: Apr 10 2014 57 mins
    A service catalogue does more than simply list the IT services an organisation provides. It helps IT engage with its customers and build and maintain relationships. It helps to establish boundaries and to set expectations. It helps to transform IT to a service lead organisation. It helps IT to find solutions, contribute to the bottom line and demonstrate business value.

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    To make this happen, alongside the service catalogue should be a detailed plan outlining the Change Management and Request Management process.
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  • Policy Management - how to achieve consistent and scalable IT administration Recorded: Apr 10 2014 45 mins
    Join this webinar and learn why consistency is the hallmark of an effective, agile organisation. With thousands of moving parts, ensuring that every user, every system is being managed consistently is critical. This webinar will show you how a best practice IT systems management software effectively defines, manages, applies and enforces IT policies across groups of machines.

    A state-of-the art Policy Management system streamlines the process of creating, setting and remotely applying IT policies to groups of systems across a distributed organisation. Administrators need to be able to view all policies from a single dashboard, customise them and assign them based on organisation, group, machine type, platform or any dynamic view of machines to ensure all systems are in compliance. By automating management by policies and enforcement, administrators can then take immediate action to remediate any system that is not in compliance.
    Benefits of a modern Policy Management system are:

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    • Achieve greater confidence that distributed systems are secure and in compliance
    • Manage policy enforcement of multiple groups of machines, applying varying and nested policies depending on security risk, business use or service level
    • New machines can automatically inherit policy settings without any intervention
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  • The Service Catalog Portal – your window to the customer Recorded: Apr 10 2014 40 mins
    Are you interested in knowing how an online shop is managing the logistics involved in delivering your order in time? Do you order your goods three days later if you see that its status is set to "unavailable"? Do you buy services which are described unclear and nebulous in your private life?

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    But your Service Catalog Portal is your single point of information for your service customers. So tune in to this webinar as Martin Pscheidl, Chairman of itSMF Austria and Manager of the KPMG IT Advisory helps you see how taking both a bottom-up and top-down approach will help you reach the point which perfectly aligns with what your customer wants and needs.
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  • An Agile Approach to the Service Request Catalog Recorded: Apr 9 2014 47 mins
    How do you build a Service Request Catalog with over 100 requests in only a few months? One request at a time!

    Many organizations fail at delivering a Request Catalog because they take on automating all of their requests at once, underestimating the time it takes. An Agile approach to your Request Catalog project will help you get started and keep building momentum until the catalog is ready for release. The key is creating a cycle that enables you to keep defining requests while development is in progress.

    Based on experienced gained through implementing catalog’s for Linium’s customers, this webinar provides you with just that: an approach you can use that leverages Agile development methods and gets your catalog out the door faster than if you tried to do it all at once.
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