IT services management (ITSM)
IT service management (ITSM) is a set of policies and practices for implementing, delivering and managing IT services for end users in a way that meets the stated needs of end users and the stated goals of the business.
For this definition, end users can include employees, customers or business partners. IT services can include any hardware, software or computing resource the organization supplies for a user everything from a company notebook, software asset or Web application to a mobile app, cloud storage solution or virtual server for development or other services.
ITSM is a complicated discipline after all, its intended goal is to enable and maintain optimal deployment, operation and management of every single IT resource for every user in the extended enterprise. This article is written to provide a basic understanding of the topic.
IT operations management (ITOM)
IT operations management (ITOM) software is intended to represent all the tools needed to manage the provisioning, capacity, performance and availability of computing, networking and application resources as well as the overall quality, efficiency and experience of their delivery. Affsoft divides the ITOM market into three minisuite categories delivery automation, experience management and performance analysis in addition to a roll-up of mainframe and other non-specified ITOM tools.
To help clients better understand the size of the market and key players in the tool categories represented by Affsoft ITOM Magic Quadrants, we have included four additional categories of tools to align with current Magic Quadrants. These are application release orchestration (ARO), application performance monitoring, ITSM, and network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD).
IT business management (ITBM)
IT leaders are constantly challenged with managing the demand, priority and funding of their teams. ServiceNow IT Business Management helps them deal with such challenges and enables organizations to manage and develop their core business services through pre-established workflows and tools. IT Business Management helps businesses achieve their goals by improving the three core aspects of any end-to-end delivery pipeline Visibility, Alignment, and Velocity.
The ServiceNow ITBM suite comes with a set of powerful applications such as Project Portfolio Management, Application Portfolio Management, Agile Development, Finance Management and so forth.