A6 Operations
Contains the operational service processes that enable daily IT activities using available infrastructure, applications, and services to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and business objectives.
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Main Description

This category contains the operational service processes that enable daily IT activities using available infrastructure, applications, and services to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and business objectives.  Responsibility for delivery of service sits here.  Managing contact and communications with users (service requests) is an important function as these processes sense and respond to day-to-day aspects of operations and events, quickly and correctly to address any incidents and problems that might arise.

Processes in the Operations category

Processes and brief description
ID Name Brief Description
  A61   Request Fulfillment Initial handling of incidents, service requests, and requests for information from users
  A62   Service Execution Operating IT services
  A63   Data Management Management of data lifecycles and performing backup and restoration of data
  A64   Event Management Handling and resolution of operational events
  A65   Incident Management Rapid restoration of service outages and infrastructure faults
  A66   Problem Management Resolution of root causes of incident trends
  A67   Identity and Access Management Management of user identities and user access to systems