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        Service Life Cycle Stages
            
                Service Strategy
             
                Service Design
             
                Service Transition
             
                Service Operation
             
                Continual Service Improvement
             
 
    The Service Operation book describes the delivery of services.  Topics include:
 
    
        Operation of services from end-to-end
    
        Monitoring and management of events
    
        Fulfillment of service requests
     
    The following processes are involved in Service Operation.
 
    
        
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                    ITIL® process
                 | 
                    Equivalent ITUP Process / Activity
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            | Event Management |  |  
            | Incident Management |  |  
            | Request Fulfillment |  |  
            | Problem Management |  |  
            | Access Management |  |  Other common activities are also identified in the Service Operation book that map to ITUP processes and
activities, as shown in the following table.
 
 
 
    
        
            | 
                    Common Service Operation Activity
                 | 
                    Equivalent ITUP Process / Activity
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            | Monitoring and Control |  |  
            | IT Operations |  |  
            | Mainframe Management |  |  
            | Server Management and Support |  
            | Network Management |  
            | Storage and Archive |  
            | Database Administration |  
            | Directory Services Management |  
            | Desktop Support |  
            | Middleware Management |  
            | Internet/Web Management |  
            | Facilities and Data Centre Management |  |  
            | Information Security Management and Service Operation |  |  
            | Improvement of operational activities | 
                    
                        This is a part of every process.  
                        
                            
                                In the Evaluate <process> Performance activity in every process, see the Produce
                                Process Measurements task.
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    A number of functions are identified in the Service Design book as well, as shown in the following table.
 
 
 
    
        
            | 
                    ITIL function
                 | 
                    Equivalent ITUP Process/Activity
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            | Service Desk |  |  
            | Technical Management |  |  
            | IT Operations Control |  |  
            | Facilities Management |  |  
            | Application Management |  |  
 
 
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