ITIL Foundation Certification is an internationally recognized certification that provides an understanding of IT service management and the ITIL best practices framework. It is designed to help organizations improve their IT service delivery and management processes. The certification is awarded by the ITIL Certification Body, which is the accreditation body responsible for setting the standards for ITIL certification. The ITIL Foundation is the entry-level certification for ITIL and provides an understanding of the ITIL framework and how it can be used to improve IT service delivery. The certification focuses on the core concepts of IT service management, including service design, service transition, service operation, and continual service improvement. It also covers the ITIL processes and functions, such as incident management, problem management, change management, and configuration management.
ITIL
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of detailed practices for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus on aligning IT services with business needs.
ITIL describes processes, procedures, tasks and checklists that are neither organization-specific nor technology-specific, but can be applied by an organization towards strategy, delivering value and maintaining a minimum level of competence. It allows the organization to establish a baseline from which it can plan, implement and measure. It is used to demonstrate compliance and to measure improvement. There is no formal independent third-party compliance assessment available for ITIL compliance in an organization. ITIL certification is only available to individuals. Since 2013, ITIL has been owned by AXELOan consortium in between capital and the UK Cabinet.
History
Responding to growing reliance on IT, the UK Government Central Information Technology and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) in the 1980s developed a set of recommendations aimed at standardizing IT management practices across all government functions, built around a process modelvision based on control and management of operations, often credited to W. Edwards Deming it’s him plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle.
- In April 2001, the CCTA was incorporated into the Government Commerce Office (OGC), an office of the uk treasury.
- In 2001, the ITIL Version 2 glossary was published.
- In May 2007, this organization released ITIL Version 3 (also known as the ITIL Refresh Project) comprising 26 processes and functions, now grouped into just 5 volumes, organized around the concept of a service lifecycle structure. ITIL Version 3 is now known as ITIL 2007 Edition.
- In 2009, the OGC officially announced that ITIL Version 2 certification would be withdrawn and launched a large consultation on how to proceed.
- Version 4 of ITIL was released in February 2019. The main changes were: considering edge service management from holistic and value-centric perspectives, aligning with philosophies such as Agile, DevOps and Lean, and reducing the emphasis on IT service management in favor of Service Management in general.
In 2009 and 2011, researchers investigated the benefits of implementing ITIL.
See too
- Application service library – Similar structure to application management
- Business Information Services Library (BiSL) – A similar structure for information management and functional management
- ISO/IEC 20000 – An international standard for IT service management
- Tudor IT Process Assessment – A framework for assessing the maturity of IT service management
- event management – The ITIL standard process that monitors all events that occur in the IT infrastructure
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