Version 2 Overview
IT Service Management
Relationships
Related Elements
Main Description

ITIL v2 overview diagram

ITIL® version 2 was released in 2000 and consists of a series of 10 books. It focuses primarily on two aspects of Service Management: Service Support and Service Delivery.

There are 7 primary books that make up this series:

In addition, there are3 other books in the series. These do not introduce any new IT processes, but contain important information.

  • An Introduction to ITIL
  • Planning to Implement Service Management
  • Small-Scale Implementation

ITIL V2 consisting of nine books provides best practices in aligning technology with the business, and with guidance focused on key IT processes to deliver effective services to the business. With ITIL V3, the processes are organized within a core set of six publications. The following table shows ITIL V2 to ITIL V3 processes mapping.

ITIL V2 Processes
ITIL V3 Processes
Availability Management
Capacity Management
Financial Management
IT Service Continuity Management
Service Level Management
Service Desk (function)
Incident Management
Problem Management
Change Management
Release Management

Configuration Management

Software Asset Management 

Service Asset and Configuration Management

Security Management
Event Management