MEGA International Releases Advanced MEGA ITSM Accelerator.

Brings Industry-standard Best Practices to IT Service Management

SHARON, Mass. -- MEGA International, the global leader in business process analysis and enterprise architecture modeling solutions, today introduced an advanced version of the MEGA ITSM Accelerator that will help enterprises deploy ITIL[R] faster and more efficiently.

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a customizable framework of best practices to improve IT service management, in areas such as change management, configuration management, software control & distribution, release management, and help desk. ITIL, published by the British Office of Government Commerce, is grounded on fundamental principles such as client orientation, service level agreement, and quality management. The MEGA ITSM Accelerator is a graphical, ready-to-use repository of ITIL best practices. It enables IT managers to deploy these best practices in a consistent framework, thus reducing project risks and implementation costs.

Because service management is so critical to the efficiency, cost control, and reputation of a company, IT departments continually seek to implement best practices to optimally manage the IT services program. The MEGA ITSM Accelerator enables IT departments to deploy these best practices as reusable models in a consistent framework, both quickly and cost-effectively.

This new MEGA ITSM Accelerator offers improved presentation and navigation between the ITIL elements. The software is more intuitive and efficient, and the presentation enhancements make it easier to understand the issues and determine where to start an ITIL project.

Moreover, MEGA has added a deployment approach that is embedded in the library and serves as a guide for project deployment. Furthermore, a consulting service dedicated to the deployment of ITIL has been created to address the full range of ITIL project requirements.

The ITSM Accelerator is built on MEGA Process, the powerful business process modeling tool of the MEGA Modeling Suite. It is integrated with MEGA Publisher, which enables communication to IT executives and employees about IT operations. It is one facet of the MEGA approach to IT governance, which is based on management of the organization of the IT department, the quality of the IT architecture, and application design, from business requirements to quality of development.

Processes delivered by MEGA ITSM Accelerator are provided as reference processes. When IT departments describe how they intend to deploy ITIL best practices, they relate their own implementation to the reference processes. The effective separation of concern between reference processes and implementation processes is a major asset of MEGA ITSM Accelerator. It allows the union of several projects into a common repository, like using ITIL reference processes as a guide for an incremental adoption of a new organization.

ITIL implementation processes described with MEGA ITSM Accelerator in the MEGA repository automatically contribute to initialize ITIL software packages provided by software vendors such as Compuware, BMC, HP, IBM or Computer Associates.

The MEGA ITSM Accelerator is available immediately and is priced at $15,000.

About MEGA International

MEGA International (www.mega.com) is the global leader in process excellence and enterprise architecture modeling solutions. MEGA's proven methods, modeling software, and consulting deliver an enterprise repository that provides executives with the ability to understand, discover, align, and control information at the enterprise level.

Founded in 1991, with offices in North America, Europe, and Japan, MEGA has more than 35,000 licenses worldwide and delivers more than 15,000 consulting engagement days per year. Clients include the Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation, the Transportation Securities Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fort Lewis, National Defense Canada, Cardinal Health, DIRECTV, Morgan Stanley, Nissan, GeoEYE, Philip Morris USA, Michelin, and Wyeth.

ITIL[R] is a registered trademark and a registered community trademark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.