Are you getting the most out of your IT service management investment by upgrading to the latest releases? Hear about new advances that make it even simpler to upgrade CA Service Management.
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Technology Primer: The Importance of ITSM Upgrades: People, Process and Technology Working Together
1. Technology Primer: The Importance
of ITSM Upgrades: People, Process
and Technology Working Together
Titus Moore
IT Service Management
CA Technologies
Customer Lifecycle Solutions
DO5X166S
@TitusMoore
#CAWorld
#ITSM
Purushotham. K
Infosys Ltd.
Associate Vice President & Head –
Enterprise Management Application Group
7. Unified self-service
Collaborative/social user experience
Mobility
Out-of-the-box services/content
Change Audit Controls
Advanced Availability
Business Value Reports
Expanded Service Design
Increased user satisfaction and
adoption
Improved productivity for all employees
Easier administration
Reduced business risk
Less scheduled downtime/business
impact
Better alignment with business
objectives
Shorter time-to-value for new services
Recent Enhancements Business Value
Why should you upgrade to CA Service Management 14.1?
12. Migration Complexity
• 41 Departments
• 31 Integrations (System to System)
• ~415000 Tickets / month
• 2500+ Change Orders / month
• 15000+ Configuration Items
• 6000 max concurrent users
• Heterogeneous Admin models (Category, Location, Priority and Hybrid)
• Heavy Customization both UI and SPEL
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13. ServiceDesk History at Infosys
13
AHD
•1998 v4.0
Distributed
•2000-Centralized
•2002 v5.5
AHD 6.0
(Infosys
ServiceDesk)
•2005 –Email
interface
•2007 - ITIL
Adoption,
Change and
Configuration
Management
ServiceDesk
r12.1
•2010 - ITIL v2
•Customized
Self
Service UI
•2012 – HR and
IS Adoption
ServiceDesk r12.7
(Mar 2013)
•Support
Automation
•26 Depts. on SD. 22
Web Service
Integrations
ServiceDesk r14.1
(Aug 2015)
•Advanced Availability -
Reduced Downtime
•Xtraction Real-time
Reporting
Infosys Lifeline for BEFs.
14. r14.1 Advantages
• No Single Point of Failure – High Availability
• No bottlenecks – distributed virtual DB layer
• Hosted on Latest OS (Windows 2012 R2) and DB (SQL 2014)
• Attachments on Network Attached Storage
• Classic Workflows for Incidents/Requests
• Attachments for CI and Multiple File Attachments on Analyst Interface.
• DB on MSSQL Always-ON.
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15. Factory Upgrade Program
• Activities
• Collection of Environmental and Customization details.
• Reproduce it in CA Environment
• Test and Develop Migration Plan
• Provide web pages customizations in line with new version.
• Provide Run-book to implement migration.
• Advantages:
• Ease –
• Admins generally have to follow the doc provided by CA
• Port it to Production after couple of test iterations.
• Time –
• Substantial improvement in Migration timelines.
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