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Business Owner business owner

Person

Responsible for communicating functionality a service or product needs to provide in order to meet needs of the customer. Makes non-operational decisions on upgrades, business requirements. Coordinates licensing,etc.  Person that sponsors a service. This is an individual as opposed to a team or list?

  Service

Owner solution owner

Person

Responsible for the support, maintenance and enhancement of a service as outlined by the business need (see Business Owner).  In refining the Problem Response process, service owner has been defined as an individual member of IS&T senior staff.

  Service Operator

service component operator

Person

Responsibility and decisions on operations and upgrades, unless they impact business requirements. IS&T Team primarily responsible for a service.

  Financial

Owner financial owner

Person

Responsible for funding of a product or service. This is an individual as opposed to a team or department?

 

Product product

 

Computer program or application. Can be stand alone or interact with various other products and services. An example of a product would be Outlook 2007.

 

category Category

 

A set of related functions, in support of one or more business areas, which is made up of software, hardware, people and processes.  A service may range from access to a single application to a complex set of many applications, spread across a number of hardware and software platforms.  An example of a service would be ExchangeCommunications.

 

system System

 

 

 

Solution solution

 

A method of solving a business problem with information technology.  There may be several service choices for any given solution.  An example of a solution would be Email and CalendaringExchange or IMAP.

  License

File license file

 

 

  License

Terms license terms

 

Terms and conditions under which a product can be used, as negotiated with the vendor and referenced by the purchase order used to acquire the product.

  License

license key Key

 

  License

Type license type

 

Describes the way customers access and use a product.  Examples would be stand alone, concurrent, site.

 

Issue issue

 

Change in the state of a service.  Is this interchangeable with "incident" or "event"? Or something different?

  Components

service components

 

Various building blocks of a service, including software products, web services, hardware platform and operating system.

 

Service Email List

 

 

 

Materials & Services consumer

 

 

 

Dates

 

 

 

Consumer

 

 

 

Platform platform

 

Hardwarehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software and operating system required for a product or service to run.

 

escalation Escalation

 

Process by which a staff member or team consults with or defers to another team in order to take action or make decisions that are beyond the competencies assigned to the original team or staff.

  Escalation

Level escalation level

 

Indicates the resources needed to address an issue with a service.

 

Organization release

 

 

 

Release

 

 

 

Provisioning provisioning

 

 

 

Business owner

  • Person
    Distribution channels
  • Distribution owner A
  • Distribution owner B
    Required Services
  • Service owner A
  • Service owner B
    Financial owner