ITIL is about IT governance. It must fit for SOA Governance. In addition, I think the ITIL service process that defines services very easily be a source for web services. In one article, I read, they mentioned "ITIL v3 focus on management of services across the organization and not as "a silo of IT." The ITIL focus on the quality and efficiency aligns it with the best practices in SOA."
In the ITIL context, a CMDB represents the authorized configuration of the significant components of the IT environment. A key goal of a CMDB is to help an organization understand the relationships between these components and track their configuration. The CMDB is a fundamental component of the ITIL framework's Configuration Management<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_Management_(ITSM)>process. CMDB implementations often involve integration with other systems, such as Asset Management Systems. These integrations may make use of either a real-time, federated<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_database_system>design or an ETL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load> (extract, transform, load) solution. The SOA repository has different function that enabling businesses to publish service listings and discover each other and define how the services or software applications *interact* over the Internet. All the best Ashraf Galal On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Todd Biske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not that familiar with the ITIL v3 processes (just got registered > for some training in November), but from what I understand of IT Service > Management, I see no reason why the techniques of service management > shouldn't be applicable to either IT services (e.g. Build me a new server) > or business services that are supported by It solutions such as a Web > Service. > > As for the tooling, I absolutely think that we'll see convergence in the > CMDB space and the Service Registry/Repository space. I've blogged on this > in the past, as early as August of 2006, but my prediction has yet to come > true. I think there's still too big of a gap between the development side > of IT and the operational side of IT to really establish a market for a > converged product. > > Blog: > http://www.biske.com/blog/?p=64 > > -tb > Todd Biske > http://www.biske.com/blog/ > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 8, 2008, at 11:54 AM, delarco71 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > How ITIL v3 processes could be applied to Services Lifecycle ... or in > SOA Management area?. > > Is it possible that SOA/ITIL vendors approach in a future a > convergence between the CMDB and Repository products? > > Regards, > > jose > > >
