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Service Catalog Management

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The service catalog should be a list of operational services--the services that already exist. The service catalog and the "service pipeline"--or list of services that are in planning to be created--together create the "service portfolio." The service pipeline and service portfolio are discussed in ITIL v3's "Service Strategy."

Service Catalog Management

Here's ITIL's definition of a "service:"

A service is a means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks.

The service catalog is the list of "what we do." There are typically two different sorts of service catalogs:

  • Business Service Catalog: the service catalog from the perspective of the end user. For example, a user might want to see "Internet connectivity."
  • Technical Service Catalog: the service catalog from the perspective of techies. For example, an IT staff member might want to see the services that together support "Internet connectivity," such as "Wireless access," "802.1x authentication," and "RADIUS authentication"

The Business Service Catalog is a deliverable to end users. The Technical Service Catalog helps IT internally keep track of what technical services exist in the infrastructure. Ideally, the two should be linked in some way.

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