A Comparison of Text Classifiers on IT Incidents Using WEKA

The main objective of the Service Level Management process is to ensure that an agreed level of IT service is provided for all current IT services and that future services are delivered to agreed achievable targets. The number of agreed SLAs has rapidly increased in the IT industry while more and more IT customers have become aware of Service Level Management best practices. IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely used IT service management framework that provides best practices for implementing IT service management processes including Service Level Management. The research problem of this study is: how Service Level Agreements can be implemented with an IT service management tool. We use a combination of IT service management and knowledge management approach to study the problem. The main contribution of this paper is to present results of a case study that focused on improving Service Level Management practices in a Finnish IT service provider company Tieto.

The effective management of IT infrastructure in educational institutions is critical for supporting seamless academic and administrative operations in an increasingly digital environment. Universities and colleges face challenges such as frequent IT service disruptions, inefficient incident management, and the lack of standardized service delivery processes. This paper explores the application of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework as a structured approach to IT Service Management (ITSM) within higher education institutions. By analyzing existing incidents, service requests, and operational inefficiencies, the study identifies key areas where ITIL principles can improve service efficiency, reduce system downtime, and enhance overall user satisfaction among students, faculty, and staff.The research employs qualitative methodologies, including focus groups and structured interviews with IT administrators, academic personnel, and students, to assess IT infrastructure challenges and service management needs. Additionally, the study investigates the impact of modern ITSM tools, such as Jira Service Management, in automating service workflows, tracking incidents, and improving resolution times. A comparative analysis of IT service performance before and after ITIL implementation highlights significant improvements in response efficiency, proactive monitoring, and structured service request handling. Findings indicate that adopting ITIL-based service management practices leads to enhanced IT operations through improved resource allocation, automated incident tracking, and data-driven decision-making. Standardizing workflows and implementing proactive IT monitoring strategies enable universities to mitigate recurring technical issues and optimize IT support services. The study concludes with recommendations for the effective adoption of ITIL frameworks in higher education institutions, emphasizing the long-term benefits of IT governance, continuous service improvement, and user-centric IT service delivery.

IT service catalogs are a pivotal element for managing IT services in many organizations, in accordance with common practice IT service management frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library. However, both in theory and practice, IT service catalogs are underspecified as much emphasis is put on the structure and content of the catalogs while the use and integration into IT service management processes are often neglected. Consequentially, the aim of the present paper is to propose a maturity model for IT service catalogs that covers structure and content as well as use and integration. This advances our understanding of this pivotal artifact in many IT service management systems and helps practitioners to identify improvement potentials for their IT service catalog-related practices.

IT Service Management System is an application to implement and manage Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices framework. This framework aims to align the IT services with the business needs by insuring the quality of services provided to business. This IT service Management system links people, processes and technology within the Central Bank of Sudan as the main site of the project. The Central Bank of Sudan is the main bank that governs Sudan's banks rules and regulations. The bank was formed in 1960 with headquarters located in the Khartoum capital of Sudan in addition to eighteen (18) branches spread throughout the country. The Information Technology Administration within the Central Bank of Sudan manage and operate the IT infrastructure that host and support all systems that used internally and for external banks. The objective of this study focused on finding IT service management system that can support international IT service management platform that can apply ITIL standard processes like Incident Management, Service Request Management, Problem Management, Change Request Management, Configuration Management Database and Knowledge Management. The methodology used in this system is the Rapid Application Development (RAD), a condensed development process that produces a high quality system with low investment costs. The proposed system went through to alpha, beta and acceptability tests by IT development team first and second line of support agents to ensure proper module functionality with favorable results. The study concluded in align services provided by the Information system department with business need through manageable and controllable standard. As a recommendation, the system should be implemented at the Central Bank of Sudan. More integrations and benchmarking must be done to ensure modules functionalities and higher security. The system can be the first step to take ISO20000 certificate as it covers many of IS020000 requirements.

Continual service improvement within IT service management is an important research topic. Nowadays, IT services should be actively developed and improved in order to increase quality and cost effectiveness. Continual Service Improvement enables identification of bottlenecks and weak areas in the services. The research problem of this study is: what types of challenges exist in the IT service management from IT service provider's perspective? The main contribution of this study is to present ITSM challenges in two IT service provider companies in Finland. In order to categorize results, we used the three core perspectives of ITSM people, process, and technology. These three areas provide inputs to the continual service improvement lifecycle phase which controls and manages the identified improvements. Data for this study were mainly collected through interviews with 21 IT service management specialists.

A framework and associated metrics and measures that can be used to measure the performance of IT service management with an accompanying contingency theory of IT service management.

The IT Service Management (ITSM) industry has defined processes as best practices in the widely-accepted IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) framework. However, there are few tools available to provide decision support to IT Service Managers who wish to improve service management processes. It is essential to assess the current capability of processes before process improvements are planned. Our research addressed the problems of the lack of transparency and the need for efficiency in ITSM process assessment. Using the Design Science Research methodology, we developed an innovative Software-mediated Process Assessment (SMPA) approach that automates assessment of ITSM processes and supports the decision-making of IT Service Managers. The SMPA approach includes process selection, an online survey to collect assessment data, measurement of process capability and specific recommendations for managers to commence process improvement. We implemented a decision support system (DSS) to automate the SMPA approach and evaluated it at two IT service providers. The evaluations indicated that the SMPA approach supports decision-making on process improvements. In the future, data analytics performed on the assessment data can help IT managers to analyse and visualise the ‘big data’ of process knowledge.

The article presents metrics for managing IT services in a service-oriented architecture of the information system. Cognitive management of the effectiveness of IT services is considered on a variety of ICT infrastructure management metrics, information system management metrics, IT service management metrics. The necessary components of the formation of an analytical platform for the cognitive management of IT services in the EIM environment for SAP BI (Business Objects Business Intelligent) are considered. A model of cognitive management of IT services using key performance indicators (KPIs) for managing IT service metrics is presented.

Continuously Improving IT Service Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry

This paper looks at how the FitSM framework, together with Socio-Technical Systems (STS) theory, can help improve IT Service Management (ITSM) in a small software development firm. Limited resources often cause small businesses to manage services inefficiently, which leads to inconsistent delivery and dissatisfaction among clients. The study focuses on a single software company in Jakarta, where ITSM processes like incident management, change management, and configuration management were assessed. The research involved interviews with key staff, an evaluation of current practices, and a gap analysis to identify areas needing improvement. The results show that most processes are at an early stage, with some progress in Configuration Management. By using FitSM’s structured approach and addressing teamwork and communication issues through STS theory, the company can improve service reliability and efficiency. The study concludes that combining FitSM with socio-technical principles provides a practical solution for small companies to enhance their ITSM practices and overall service quality.

IT Service Management (ITSM) is transforming the management of the IT function on a global scale with major changes in work practices. The intent of this study is to empirically explore how IT service management is adopted in today's global economy. The article examines the adoption of ITSM processes as defined in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®). The adoption of operational processes is compared to that of tactical/strategic level processes and the contribution of country, size, and industry sector to variation in adoption of ITIL processes is assessed. Institutional theory is used as a foundation for the study. The analysis is based on 623 responses to three surveys conducted in the UK, USA, DACH (German-speaking countries) and Australia.

The IT infrastructure library (ITIL) provides clarity to IT service management and its processes. ICO 20000 further describes the responsibilities of service providers operating in ITIL conformant environment. However, neither one specifically addresses external service providers' challenges that arise in a cost conserving operational model when service provider is supporting multiple customers using shared resources. This paper provides a summary of a required extension to the service provider domain for an IT service management (ITSM) solution with ITIL conformant core.

Regulatory compliance is increasingly a fundamental part of a methodology to shield one’s organization from unscrupulous practices in enterprise IT. Organizations are bound by these compliance frameworks, such as GDPR, SOC 2, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), to have the most potent data security, privacy, and integrity controls in place as they pertain to data. Organizations can get integrated options for handling workflows and ensuring compliance with the automated options of IT Service Management (ITSM) tools like Jira. With customizable workflows, automated notifications, and task assignments, Jira exposes organizations to powerful and easy-to-enforce compliance with these regulations across large and distributed teams. This study explores ways of automating the compliance workflows using Jira and how it would integrate well with other ITSM tools and perfectly tie with IT service and DevOps processes. It also talks about how complex it is to automate compliance, including configuring workflows and integrating legacy systems. This will help the organization automate compliance tasks, lessen human error risk, accelerate the audit, and stay on track with compliance metrics. Jira case studies are also presented, which explain how Jira is used in high-risk cases, reducing the risk associated with compliance and improving audit and streamlining of workflow. The paper ends by recommending industry organizations that want to utilize the best practices of compliance automation as part of their strategies and predicting trends that will affect compliance automation ITSM practices in the future, including AI and machine learning, blockchain technology.

The modern business environment and global covid-19 pandemic effects have led to any relevant business organizational activity, like e-commerce, to rely on on-premise and cloud information technology (IT) services. To deliver high-quality IT services, plan-driven IT Service Management (ITSM) frameworks and standards have been used in business organizations in the last two decades. Nowadays, new and claimed agile ITSM frameworks and standards have emerged but there is a scarcity of studies on their extent of agility coverage. This research addresses this knowledge gap. First, we elaborated a plausible Integrative Agile ITSM Framework of Tenets and Practices from a selective review of the main related SwE and ITSM literature. Second, we populated the integrative framework with all available evidence about the agile tenets and practices reported in the official publications of the new five ITSM frameworks and standards. Third, we explored its utilization with a Panel of ITSM Experts for ranking how much the new five ITSM frameworks and standards fit the integrative framework. Exploratory results revealed high concordance among experts to qualify ITIL v4 and VeriSM as agile, and FitSM, and the two ISO/IEC standards as lightweight but not agile. This research contributes to the ITSM literature with an Integrative Agile ITSM Framework of Tenets and Practices, and the ITSM practice with an exploratory evaluation from ITSM experts on the adherence to it from the new five ITSM frameworks and standards. Given the critical dependence of any business activity on IT services, further theoretical and empirical research is worthy to be pursued.

The starting point is the question, why IT security management and IT service management (ITSM) must be integrated at all? Reasons are provided and discussed. ITIL defines practices for the ITSM and is used as a reference. Fourteen ITIL core areas and processes are summarized and assigned to the ESARIS areas in order to provide a sound basis (Sect. 5.1). ITIL is security-aware and comprises a dedicated Information Security Management process. It is shown that more is required. The role of the Security Management organization requires a change. Based on this division of labor between Security Management and IT business departments a staged model for integrating IT security in IT service management activities is presented (Sect. 5.2). Two examples are used to show how the integration of IT security management on the one hand and IT service management (ITIL) on the other should actually be done. New activities need to be added to the ITIL processes or even to the process map in order to make sure that the specific requirements of managing security are met. The ITIL processes dominate the industrialized IT production. In this environment, processes are important elements that exactly specify all steps in advance which need to be carried out by employees. Security activities need to be integrated. The discussion of the two examples shows how this is accomplished in practice (Sect. 5.3).