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Business and IT Alignment - The CMDB: Because You Have a Business to Run, Not Just an Operating System

Overview Leveraging information technology to increase profits usually offers only a temporary competitive advantage. Eventually the competition catches up, and what was once a unique competitive advantage becomes just another overhead cost of doing business. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the de facto standard in the industry for how IT organizations should operate for best efficiency. It has helped many organizations shift their thinking to meeting strategic business needs and cut ongoing operational costs instead of simply reacting to problems.

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Publisher	Altiris	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2006	Downloads	5
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, ITIL

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