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IBM Service Management

A better way to manage the business of IT

IBM Service Management Infrastructure

IBM Service Management helps organizations better manage their IT infrastructure, to more effectively and efficiently deliver IT services. IBM Tivoli can help ensure IT service continuity by:

  • Optimizing costs by automating reactive IT management processes
  • Creating resilient IT services
  • Improving productivity with a predictive approach to IT management
  • Managing compliance and risk in the IT environment
  • Providing data integrity and audit readiness.

Compliance, complexity, speed of change, and cost are driving the need to evolve IT from a technology to a business focus. IBM is uniquely positioned to help you meet business and IT challenges with products that leverage autonomic technology, Service Oriented Architecture, as well as process tools and deep consultative expertise which will enable you to realize faster time to value.
IBM Service Management solutions from Tivoli are comprised of:

  • Process Management Products - integrate and automate IT management processes across organizational silos for rapid responsiveness and greater flexibility
  • Service Management Platform - standardize and share information that integrates people, processes, information and technology for real business results
  • Operational Management Products - automate tasks to address application or business service operational management challenges
  • Best Practices - worldwide practical experience from proven consulting services to maximize your current investments and make Service Management and ITIL actionable.

Service Management can help you:

  • Establish a foundation for delivering processes as responsive services
  • Achieve efficiencies through process innovation and integration
  • Realize new value from existing IT assets by applying tools and models
  • Reduce IT maintenance costs with self-managing deployment capabilities
  • Improve staff productivity by automating key IT tasks
  • Increase the speed and quality of change and configuration management

The IBM Service Management solutions from Tivoli can help you efficiently and effectively align IT performance to business goals. Let IBM help you take back control, address your top IT challenges and accelerate your return on investment with a better way to manage the business of IT.


Featured products
IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database
Provides an enterprise-ready platform for storing deep, standardized data on configurations and change histories to help integrate people, processes, information and technology.
IBM Tivoli Storage Process Manager
Provides a set of customizable ITIL-aligned storage management processes. Manages and coordinates simple and complex change, configuration and incident management processes for an IT storage environment.
IBM Tivoli Unified Process Composer
Provides detailed documentation of IT Service Management processes based on industry best practices. Offers detailed content and tooling to enable content customization, extension, and publishing.
Complete list of IBM Service Management technology products


News
 06/08  SMBs face challenges similar to Large Enterprises (Biztech2)
 06/08  IBM releases FISMA add-on for Tivoli (GCN)
 05/08  Alcatel-Lucent Selects IBM Security Software (Global Security Mag)
 05/08  New IBM Software Simplifies Application Security for SOA (ITReport)
 05/08  IBM Expands Federated Identity Effort (internetnews.com)
 05/08  Taking the Pulse of the new Tivoli (Hurwritz)
 05/08  Hasta la Vista, Password Hell (Business Week)
 05/08  IBM Pushes Federated Identity Management (eWeek)
 05/08  IBM Declares New Era for IT Industrialization at Pulse 2008 (HULIQ)
 04/08  KeyCorp Unlocks Method for Extending Single Sign-on (DarkReading)
 04/08  IBM's Project Phantom to Lock Down Virtual Machines (PC World)

Solutions
IBM Best Practices
IBM IT Service Management is built on IBM and industry best practices. You can leverage IBM's worldwide practical experience from proven consulting services to maximize your current investments and make IT Service Management actionable.
IBM Operational Management Products
IT Operational Management Products automate tasks to address application or business service operational management challenges. These products optimize performance and availability of business-critical applications and supporting IT infrastructure.
IBM Process Management Products
IT Process Management products bridge organizational silos, automating and integrating IT management processes for responsiveness and flexibility. This self-managing autonomic technology supports automation and process changes to deliver end-to-end IT Service Management solutions.
IBM Service Management Essentials
IBM Service Management Essentials
IBM Service Management Platform
IT Service Management Platform enables standardized shared information. Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB), includes open federated CMDB to automate process execution, helps you understand architectural complexity and reduce problem management.

Hot topics
Free event: Tivoli Nation - July 29-30, Sydney, Australia. Over 70 service management sessions to help you manage risk and compliance, optimise investments, and accelerate business growth.
Ovum: IBM simplifies IT service management to facilitate business and IT convergence
Tivoli Service Management Center for System z - an efficient hub for service delivery
Web feature — Service Management — Driving Innovation through Visibility. Control. Automation™
IBM Service Management Self-Assessment Tool


Page last updated on July 01, 2008.