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Touchpaper's ITBM suite.


The Butler Group, has published a Technology Audit on Touchpaper's recently launched IT Business Management (ITBM ITBM Information Technology Business Management
ITBM Interim Total Body Model
) suite in which it highlights the company's ITBM approach as a key competitive differentiator. The report provides a comprehensive overview of Touchpaper's strategy, its position in the marketplace, the architecture, functionality and deployment of the ITEM suite as well as Butler Group's view on the significance of the latest version of Touchpaper's product portfolio In the Technology Audit, Butler Group explains that Touchpaper touchpaper
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 has launched its FTBM suite at a critical time in the market when there is increased pressure on organisations to run IT as a business and to move away from being a pure cost centre.

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 John Holden Holden, town (1990 pop. 14,628), Worcester co., central Mass., a residential suburb of Worcester; settled 1723, set off and inc. 1741. Manufactures include electrical and metal products, plastics, and machinery. , Senior Research Analyst at Butler Group: 'Touchpaper's focus on providing both IT and business managers with the monitoring of performance against Key Performance Indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action.  (KPIs) should appeal to both its existing and prospective customers at a time when there is increased concentration on running IT as a business. "The role of FT and customer service is rapidly changing, particularly as organisations become more complex," Information technology is no longer seen as just a supplier of infrastructure but the department that is an enabler of an organisation's overall business objectives. Touchpaper's ITEM solutions have been designed to help position IT services as the strategic infrastructure for facilitating maximum employee productivity and customer satisfaction and pivotal to delivering the vision and goals of an organisation as measured by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Butler Group explains how Touchpaper has expanded from its roots in the Help Desk market to provide an end-to-end comprehensive modular solution. Each ITBM module is designed to support the adoption of industry best practices such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC).  and COBFT. As ITBM has been developed using the Microsoft.NET Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term.  architecture, it is easy to integrate with existing applications. In addition, its modular, out-of-the-box design makes the suite easy for customers to acquire and use, and to add functionality and modules at their own pace.

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Title Annotation:IT Business Management software
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2006
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