Wednesday, July 1, 2009

ITIL guide: Best practices, implementation and training

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ITIL guide: Best practices, implementation and training
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Our Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) guide is a collection of resources to help you understand how to implement and take advantage of the ITIL framework.

ITIL's version 3 is designed to provide best practices for IT service management (ITSM), change management and infrastructure management. Desktop performance, certification, the use of ITIL for configuration management and changes in the focus and adoption of ITIL are among the concerns you'll learn about with this guide.

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