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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

Overview of this book

ServiceNow ITOM enables infrastructure and processes to be managed in a highly automated manner. It contains various segments that ensure its applications and enterprise infrastructures are optimized for high performance and helps in creating a lean and agile organization through service?level visibility and automation. This book will be a comprehensive guide that will be based on Geneva release and will help you discover how IT activities can be connected to your business needs, rather than just focusing on internal IT process. It will take a service-centric approach to operations management and consolidate all your resource data into a single system IT record. You will learn about discovery, orchestration, MID server and cloud management, helping you take full advantage of ServiceNow IT Operations Management to improve the quality of service & increasing the service availability. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve improved service availability, immediate visibility of vital business services and much more, all from the convenience of your single screen.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Service mapping architecture


Imagine a small to large corporation which has a large to small infrastructure where the volume of infrastructure components are huge supported by Cloud solutions, servers, network equipment, storage devices, and so on. It is important for IT to understand the relationship between these infrastructure components that support critical business services. It is important for the business to keep the underlying infrastructure all the time. Image a world where, if any onsite shopping site or a banking website goes down for few minutes, there is a huge loss. So, it is important to understand the impact to business that which IT elements support these components. 

Service mapping helps to discover all business service in the organization and create a detailed relationship map of the configuration items and the business services. We have been talking about business services for a while. Let's see what is a business service and see how we create business service maps....