ITIL

ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL is a framework of IT Service Management practices that focuses on business and IT integration.

Topics covered by ITIL

ITIL covers a wide range of topics which are divided according to the 5 different parts of the service lifecycle:

History

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library was originally created back in the 1980s as a collection of books each volume of which covered a specific IT Service Management practice. Between 1986 and 1996 this collection grew to over 30 volumes. During 2000 and 2001 these volumes were consolidated into 9 sets which grouped related topics.

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