Service Level Management library use case


Service Level Management (SLM) is a discipline that constantly monitors and improves the delivery of services by negotiating agreement between the service providers and customers. SLM ensures that the agreed service levels are reached. The Service Level Management (SLM) library helps in expectation management, which is beneficial for the customers as well as for service providers in the following ways: 

  • Customers get an accurate knowledge of what to expect from the services that they have signed up for.   
  • Service providers know their responsibilities in terms of delivery, maintenance, and level of each service to the customers.

The SLM library can be shared and consumed by the applications developed in BMC Innovation Suite. 

 

The SLM library is one of the libraries provided with BMC Innovation Suite. By using the Service Level Management (SLM) library, the SLM manager ensures that service levels are delivered in alignment with business needs. You can configure the SLM library from the Administration tab of BMC Innovation Suite. This section provides information on how the SLM manager successfully maintains the service-level target information in the SLM library.

User roles in SLM

The following table lists the goals and the associated roles:

Goals

User roles

  • Configure the smart application to consume the SLM library
  • Configure service targets in the smart application
  • Generate and review dashboards and reports

SLM manager

  • Develop the smart application in BMC Innovation Suite
  • Add dependency of the smart application on SLM library
  • Customize the rules, processes, views, and associations for the smart application

Application developer

  • Deploy the SLM library deployment package to BMC Innovation Suite.

SaaS administrator

 

End-to-end process to consume the SLM library

The following graphic gives the end-to-end process to consume the SLM library.

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The following table describes the process to consume the SLM library in a smart application:

Stage

Role

Description

Example

More information

1

Application developer

Develops a smart application in BMC Innovation Suite

An Application developer can develop smart applications such as BMC HR Case Management in BMC Innovation Suite.

Developing smart applications

 in BMC Innovation Suite online documentation.

2

Application developer
(this step is not required anymore) 

Adds dependency of the smart application on SLM library (replace this step with adding SLA bar in the app)

An application developer specifies the dependency in the pom.xml file located in the bundle project. 

3

SaaS administrator

Deploys the SLM deployment package to BMC Innovation Suite

To consume the SLM library, the SaaS administrator deploys the deployment package from the CLI.

Deploying bundle packages

 in BMC Remedy ITSM Suite Deployment online documentation.

4

SLM manager

Plans how to consume the SLM library by gathering information required for configuring service targets in the SLM library for the digital service application.

The SLM manager gathers information about the service targets for HR services, business hours of HR agents, and the record definitions in BMC HR Case Management smart application that are used as data sources for the SLM library.

5

SLM manager

Configures the data source (registers the smart application) in the SLM library

After gathering the necessary information, the SLM manager registers the smart application and the required record definitions with the SLM library.

6

SLM manager

Configures the service targets for the registered smart application

The SLM manager configures the service targets for the registered data sources.

7

Application developer

Confirms that the measurement records are created for service targets

An application developer confirms that the measurement records for all applicable service targets are created.

Not applicable

Scenario for configuring service targets

The Service Level Management (SLM) library enables a service provider to map the service levels with customer requirements. This mapping is done by using service targets—an entity that measures specific goals of the service provider. For accurate measurement of service-level goals, the SLM manager must translate a customer's business requirements to appropriate service targets.

In this example, BMC HR Case Management is a smart application developed in BMC Innovation Suite and is used by Company A to manage HR services. The SLM manager translates the business requirements of company A into the following service targets:

Business requirement

Priority

Service target

Short-listing candidates after HR interview

Critical

Resolution in a few hours after the interview

Onboarding new employees

High

Resolution in a few days

Providing proof of employment to employees applying for loan

Medium

Resolution in a week

For more information about configuring services targets. see Configure service targets.

 

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