Domain level and structure for Business Services

PeterWiles
Kilo Sage

We are introducing/rolling-out CSDM foundation and educating the business on the various data models.

Along with that is ensuring we have the right structure of where Business Services/Service Offerings sit.

So taking a really simple example below:

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For example: We have an example business service of "Service Desk Support" where we provide an outsourced service desk.

  • We have a some standard offerings of "Standard" and "Enhanced".
  • We mostly provide a custom business service offering per customer depending on what our sales team sell but it's always under the same business service.

What I am tryin to map is at what level do we map our Business Services / Service offerings? Is there a best practice for this as I can't see anything specific in the SP NowLearning training or Docs (unless I missed it)

 

We currently have the BS and BSO in each of the customers domains without any "roll-up" to what the "master" business service would be.

 

My thoughts:

 

  1. We have the Business Service (BS) under our MSP domain + the standard Business Service Offerings (BSO)
    1. When we onboard a customer, we "clone" the BS and add the customer specific BSO
    2. The BS + BSO reside in the "customer" domain and we use relationship or other reference to roll-up to the "master" BS in the MSP Domain
  2. We have the BS in a shared data domain and the BSO in the customer specific domain
  3. We have the BS in the customer domain and BSO in the customer specific domain
    1. We then build some logic to tie all the same BS together in some other fashion

As we roll-out CSM, I want to ensure we can adopt the appropriate data model to not impact or have to unpick at a later date.

 

Hope that made sense.

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Kim Sullivan
Tera Guru

Careful when setting service offerings (prob BS too) to a customer domain.  For some reason, when we did that - it became visible to all.  However, leaving it in global and subscribing the Company to it worked perfectly.