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ISO/IEC 20000 is an IT standard that allows companies to demonstrate excellence and prove best practice in IT management. It focuses on the commitment of top management to build human motivation in order to meet all business objectives. The standard establishes optimal working practices which can enhance profit as well as customer satisfaction.
ISO/IEC 20000:2005 is based on ISO 9001:2000 but is focused especially for IT Service Management (ITSM). Certification to ISO/IEC 20000:2005 helps IT suppliers, brand owners and retailers ultimately safeguard their organizations and the consumer. It describes an integrated set of management processes for the effective delivery of services to the business and its customers.
ISO/IEC 20000 is an IT standard that allows companies to demonstrate excellence and prove best practice in IT management. It focuses on the commitment of top management to build human motivation in order to meet all business objectives. The standard establishes optimal working practices which can enhance profit as well as customer satisfaction.
ISO/IEC 20000:2005 is based on ISO 9001:2000 but is focused especially for IT Service Management (ITSM). Certification to ISO/IEC 20000:2005 helps IT suppliers, brand owners and retailers ultimately safeguard their organizations and the consumer. It describes an integrated set of management processes for the effective delivery of services to the business and its customers.
Initiated by the two British organizations itSMF (The IT Service Management Forum) and BSI (British Standard Institute), it is modeled upon the principles of ITIL However, in contrast to the ITIL books, ISO 20000 does not offer specific advice on how to design the organization’s processes. It is rather a set of requirements which must be met in order to qualify for ISO 20000 certification.
Organizations seeking to become certified against ISO 20000 must fulfill certain requirements, as outlined in the two parts of the ISO/IEC 20000:
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Benefits
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- Facilitate realization of following Business-IT objectives:
- Optimize IT resource Utilization.
- Reduce Costs.
- Improve Availability.
- Tune Capacity.
- Increase Throughput.
- Improve Scalability.
- Facilitate realization of following Business-IT objectives:
- Optimize IT resource Utilization.
- Reduce Costs.
- Improve Availability.
- Tune Capacity.
- Increase Throughput.
- Improve Scalability.
- Aligns IT with the business needs.
- Create environment to shift from a technology to service based culture.
- Improves ability to absorb rapid change.
- Improves quality of IT services
- IT perceived as offering value to the organization
- Ensures everyone speaks the same language
- Better information on current IT services
- Clearer view of current IT capability
- Enhances customer satisfaction
- Improves IT staff motivation
- Greater flexibility for the business through improved understanding of IT support
- Enhanced image of IT as business partner
- Improved cycle time for changes and greater success rate
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The Challenge
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Today, organizations depend on IT to satisfy their corporate aims, meet their business needs and deliver value to customers. For this to happen in a manageable, accountable and repeatable way, the business must ensure that high-quality IT services are provided, which are:
- Matched to business needs and user requirements
- Compliant with legislation
- Effectively and efficiently sourced and delivered
- Continually reviewed and improved
Today, organizations depend on IT to satisfy their corporate aims, meet their business needs and deliver value to customers. For this to happen in a manageable, accountable and repeatable way, the business must ensure that high-quality IT services are provided, which are:
- Matched to business needs and user requirements
- Compliant with legislation
- Effectively and efficiently sourced and delivered
- Continually reviewed and improved
IT service management is concerned with planning, sourcing, designing, implementing, operating, supporting and improving IT services that are appropriate to the business needs. ITIL provides a comprehensive, consistent and coherent best practice framework for IT service management and related processes, promoting a high-quality approach to achieve business effectiveness and efficiency in IT service management.
SoftExpert ITSM Suite is a flexible and cost-effective solution empowering world-class IT service and management. SoftExpert ITSM Suite incorporates ITIL® and other widely adopted best practices framework, bringing together the best in management practices with the best in technology.
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SoftExpert Excellence Suite ensures compliance with many regulations including the ISO 20000. The solution allows companies to increase efficiency for quality processes, minimize the high costs of compliance, and quickly bring new products to market.
Each SoftExpert module addresses key compliance issues as shown below:
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SE Action Plan
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- Helps organizations effectively coordinate and manage the entire workflow by maintaining team communication and improving collaboration through the centralized control of action plan and task planning, execution and monitoring, including corrective, preventive or predictive actions.
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SE Asset
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- Keeps details of IT assets and configuration items.
- Detailed records of their service schedules, localization, verification, usage, maintenance, and much more.
- Provides several reports covering inventory, maintenance, ownership, location, reservations, usage, downtime, verification, and check-in/out status.
- Allows control of all asset-related documentation such as manuals, configuration settings, lease agreements, warranty certificates assuring that the latest revision of any documentation is always used.
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 SE Audit
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- Audits are planned and performed.
- Results of audits communicated to stakeholders.
- Corrects and registers all findings.
- Manages any required corrective action.
- Ensures corrective actions are carried out on time.
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 SE Competence
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- Defines job descriptions, positions within the whole IT department, identifying specified required responsibilities, authorities, and capabilities.
- Provides a database of educational institutes and identifies specific competency courses.
- Schedules training sessions on user-defined calendars - weekly, monthly, or annually - with automatic display of training needs that are pending in a certain period of time.
- Displays all scheduled training sessions through timesheets, spreadsheets, and Gantt charts, then groups results based on specific IT department, or the entire company.
- Provides tools for all kinds of competence evaluation.
- Assesses employee competencies and skills based on customized evaluation forms.
- Calculates the employees' qualification levels based on their job performance, and then displays summarized results in charts based on the employee, job position, or department.
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 SE Incident
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Manages the entire process by:
- Identifying and correcting incidents.
- Taking actions to mitigate their impacts.
- Reviewing real and potential incidents, including customer complaints.
- Keeping records of all complaints and follow-up actions.
- Ensuring that responsibility for corrective actions is clearly defined.
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 SE Problem Analysis
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Manages the entire process by:
- Investigating problems.
- Determining their root causes
- Taking actions in order to avoid their recurrence.
- Evaluating the need for actions to prevent nonconformities, and implementing appropriate actions designed to avoid their occurrence.
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 SE Performance
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- Links Business goals to IT goals.
- Provides identification of critical dependencies and current performance.
- Automates the establishment, management and communication of the corporate and IT strategic plan.
- Enables the company to actively monitor current performance against previously-defined goals, and reports this performance to auditors and internal stakeholders in real-time.
- Provides establishment and measurement of key performance indicators related to either business processes or to IT infrastructure elements.
- Totally compliant with the BSC (Balanced Score Card) methodology.
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 SE Process
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- Defines customized processes based on the organization’s environment, nature of services, and best practices.
- Ensures processes are defined, planned, and documented.
- Develops process improvement and awareness of the model.
- Defines the resources and information necessary to support the operation and monitoring of these processes.
- Defines the monitoring and measurement points, where applicable, and analyzes these processes.
- Implements the actions necessary to achieve the planned results and continually improves these processes.
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 SE Project
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- Provides program and portfolio management frameworks for IT investments.
- Ready-to-use, proven project management process aligned with de facto standard PMBOK approach.
- Supports the establishment and maintenance of project monitoring, measurement and management system.
- Automates creation and management of project charters, schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk plans.
- Native workflow engine “Team Workflow”, assures participation and commitment of all project stakeholders.
- Automated task assignments, routing, escalation, review, and approval, increasing efficiency for the team.
- Audit history always accessible.
- Provides tailoring of additional and organization unique processes and reporting capabilities.
- Provides project classification schemes. Projects associated with or impacted by COBIT processes can be tracked and managed.
- Templates and checklists for tracking and managing changes.
- Provides project and product development processes.
- Provides stage-gates approach for projects, including scorecard criteria and criteria for “go-no-go” decisions.
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 SE Request
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- Automated request lifecycle for all service demands.
- Single central database which stores all information and documents.
- Approval controls.
- Ensures service effectiveness.
- Ensures optimized teamwork productivity through a practical task control mechanism.
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 SE Workflow
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- Generic, personal and customizable workflow engine to structure the service flows and activities.
- Enforces task priorities and deadlines required to meet Service.
- Level Agreements.
- Monitors and reports end-to-end service level performance.
- Automates the process of recording, assessing and prioritizing change requests.
- Assures that any emergency and critical change follows the approved process.
- Provides a workflow to allow changes.
- Manages and disseminates relevant information regarding changes.
- Audit history always accessible.
- Provides stage-gates approach for projects, including scorecard criteria and criteria for “go-no-go” decisions.
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