In the CSDM is there a defined relationship that links Business Services and Technical Services together? For example, Email being a Technical Services and lots of business areas use Email to function.

Charlotte Basco
Tera Contributor

I've looked at both v3 and v4 of the CSDM but I can't find a clear indication if there is a dependency between the two services. I'd like to know for sure and if the relationship is something that other companies have done. 

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EricDohr
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

From a CSDM perspective, there is not  a direct relationship between a Technical Service and Business Service. 

  • From a business service standpoint, you could have a Service with various offerings such as by platform/channel.  For Example, if you had Microsoft Outlook as a Business Applicaiton, you may have different offerings given Office 365 - Web Based, Mobile, and the Outlook client.  Each offering may have different support, commitments and more
  • From a technical services standpoint, you could consider what are the various care and feed of the Exchange services
  • Both Technical Service Offerings and Business Service Offerings have a CI relationship with the Application Service environments.

CSDM relationships and references to consider

  • Technical Services have a reference to one or many Service Offerings (not a CI Relationship).  
  • Technical Service Offerings can have a relationship to Dynamic CI group(s) and/or Application Service(s)
  • Business Services can have a CI relationship with one or more Business Capabilities
  • Business Services have a reference to one or many Service Offerings (not a CI Relationship).
  • Business Service Offerings can have a relationship to Application Service(s)
  • A Service Offering cannot reference more than one Technical Service or Business Service. (Thanks @Peter Kindbom  for the correction!)

In a scenario like an Exchange Server were to go down, you would want to have that impacted services visibility to both Business Services Offerings and Technical Services Offering.  For instance, availabilty commitments, response, resolution, etc.  

One Technical Service Offering could have a relationship with multiple Application Services which then could lead to multiple Business Service Offerings.  

Here is a really good set of examples you want to check out.  Here is one specific example that may be applicable 

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Thank you for great explanation and example.
My guess that Technical in the text below should be replaced with Business. Correct? 

  • Technical Services have a reference to one or many Service Offerings (not a CI Relationship).  Please note, a Service Offering cannot reference more than one Technical Service.
  • Technical Service Offerings can have a relationship to Dynamic CI group(s) and/or Application Service(s)
  • Business Services can have a CI relationship with one or more Business Capabilities
  • Business Services have a reference to one or many Service Offerings (not a CI Relationship).  Please note, a Service Offering cannot reference more than one Technical Service.

 

The terms Business Service Offering and Technical Service Offering will make it clear what kind of Service Offering it is. Is this a good approach?
/Peter 🙂

Thanks! Yep, typo and you are correct that should say Business.  I appreciate you catching that and I updated the post. 

Hi Barry and Eric,

Thank you both for your replies, they really help to give me more context around this structure.

Also, thanks for the examples as well, that is very useful. 

 

Kind Regards

Charlotte