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What is SLM?

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15y ago
Updated: 9/15/2023

s.l.m. is service level management

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What are the goals of it service management?

Service Level Management exists to ensure that services fully align with the needs of the business and meet the customers' requirements for functionality, availability and performance. The goal is to ensure that levels of service are negotiated and agreed with customers and all services are delivered to the agreed service levels defined in terms of agreed performance indicators. Service Level Management (SLM) must also ensure that services are continually improved where improvements are required by the customer and can be justified in terms of their cost. SLM is vital to Continual Service Improvement (CSI). SLM's goal is to maintain and improve IT service quality by a continuing process of agreeing, monitoring and reporting on IT service achievements and initiating corrective action where there is a business case for doing so and the business agrees that action should be taken. SLM supports the Seven-step Improvement Process because SLM determines what is to be measured, monitored and reported. It works with the business and customers to agree new requirements and identify service improvement opportunities and priorities. This information and the activities it drives are an important part of CSI


What is ITIL service level management?

Service Level Management (SLM) exists to ensure that services fully align with the needs of the business and meet the customers' requirements for functionality, availability and performance. The goal is to ensure that levels of service are negotiated and agreed with customers and all services are delivered to the agreed service levels defined in terms of agreed performance indicators. SLM must also ensure that services are continually improved where improvements are required by the customer and can be justified in terms of their cost.


What is the Purpose of Service Level Management?

The purpose of the SLM process is to ensure that all delivered services are monitored and measured against the agreed levels of service and that the results, expressed in accordance with the customers' needs, are reported regularly to the business and customers.


What are the objectives of service level management?

The objectives of SLM are: • To build and maintain effective, productive relationships with customers • To define and agree with customers the required levels of IT services in a way that customers understand • To manage the performance of services to ensure agreed levels are achieved and that customers are happy with what they receive • To ensure systems are in place to improve continually service levels if the organization wants it and the cost is justified and affordable.


What are SLA Review Meetings?

Regular meetings with customers are a central part of SLM. They are not just an opportunity to report on and review performance, although this is one of the key issues. It is fundamentally about building and maintaining the relationship. Review meetings are a forum for exchanging information about issues of concern, such as the need for user training or worrying trends in performance or workload. They provide an opportunity for both the IT service provider and the customer to share their plans for future change: the business may be planning an expansion in usage; there may be relevant proposals in the Forward Schedule of Changes; IT may be planning to replace key service components or to introduce new service management elements. These meetings are a means to ensure that both sides have a common understanding and that there are no difficult surprises to manage. Continual Service Improvement is a fundamental goal of Service Management. A key objective of the regular review meetings is to identify and agree service improvements and incorporate them into the Service Improvement Plan and Service Quality Plan as part of the Continual Improvement Stage of the Service Lifecycle.