Service Catalogue vs. Hardware Cataloque

[AndyW]

Hi,
I have a question regarding ITILv3.
ITIL v3 mentiones the Service Catalogue. What about a catalgue which lists Client Computer Hardware and price information. Is this part of the Service Catalogue or can this be seen as a kind of Service catalogue?

Cheers,

[Diarmid]

Andy,

a service catalogue is a catalogue of services. Do you mean the looking after of the client computer hardware? The actual hardware itself would normally be configuration items. By price, do you mean cost or value information? This would be accounting information for which you will want links to configuration and asset management, and possibly to services.

Or am I misunderstanding? Do you mean a list of hardware that you will provide (purchase?) on demand for the customer? That might be an order or purchase catalogue and would include any charge you make for the procurement and installation (and maintenance and support?). I would think this could be owned by a procurement service and that would be an item in the service catalogue.
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[AndyW]

yes you are right. I wonder if client hardware like notebooks the related pricing information etc. should also appear in a service catalogue?
You can see it from this angle:
we offer client computers for our users on which we install a standard image etc. all together this could be seen as a service.

[drgroove]

Hi,

I worked as a Director for an ITIL software company for 5 years (I'd prefer not to name whether this was BMC, IBM, CA or HP, but it was one of those).

In my experience, the Service Catalog products offered by these companies handle both ITSM and ITAM requests; that is, they can act as the front-end to both Service Requests (eg, provisioning a new email inbox; increasing storage capacity on a device, etc) or Asset Requests (eg, ordering a standard laptop or desktop).

Basically, a Service Catalog functions as a bridge between both Service and IT Asset management domains.

Hope that helps...
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[Diarmid]

There is considerable danger of confusion here. mentioning tools clouds the issue which is about what is appropriate to hold in a Service Catalogue.

This should remain an entirely separate matter from what a set of tools allows you to do.

I was addressing an aspect of the question "what should be in a service catalogue?" and not the question "what can I put in my tool called Service Catalogue?"
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William Penn 1644-1718