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Service Category Worksheet

As you categorize your services, information in this worksheet can help you understand the meaning of the different categories. This same information is displayed in the Service Categorization dialog, in a pop-up window that displays when you hover your mouse over a category name.

Category Name

Services in this category have the following capabilities

Backup and Recovery

  • Storage performance
  • Automatic scaling
  • Regionality support
  • Multi-protocol or file system support
  • Off-line storage option
  • Backup to cloud

Business Intelligence

  • Data warehousing
  • Sales reports
  • Data reports
  • Ad-hoc reporting
  • SalesForce integration
  • Enterprise Application Support

Compute

  • Create instance
  • Scale instance
  • Persistent instance
  • Storage service integration
  • Load balance instance
  • Monitor instance
  • Database service integration
  • Compute capacity
  • Network capacity
  • Storage performance

Customer Relationship Management

  • Lead management
  • Services management
  • Contact management
  • E-mail integration
  • Analytics
  • Forecasting
  • Opportunity tracking
  • Mobile access
  • Document store
  • Activity tracking
  • Automation or Workflow
  • Campaign management

Database

  • Storage performance
  • Relational
  • Non-relational
  • Amazon hosted
  • Rackspace hosted
  • Create or manage cloud instance

E-Commerce

  • Order processing
  • Inventory management
  • Fulfillment
  • Payment services
  • Reporting
  • Catalog management
  • Customer management
  • Catalog searching
  • Integrations

E-Mail

  • Send and receive email
  • Address book
  • Calendar
  • Notes
  • Directories
  • IM integration
  • Mobile push support

Enterprise Resource Planning

  • Financial management
  • Financial planning
  • Supply chain and inventory management
  • Shipping and fulfillment
  • Human capital management
  • Financial analysis and reporting

IT Management

  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Load balancing and scaling
  • Manage physical servers
  • ITIL based
  • Automation or scripting
  • Cloud deployment
  • Asset Management
  • CMDB
  • Cost management

Platform

  • Development environment
  • Application management
  • Java
  • Ruby on Rails
  • .Net
  • SQL Datastore
  • Persistent Storage
  • Capacity management
  • Monitoring and Alerting
  • Application Performance

Project and Portfolio Management

  • Financial management
  • Task management
  • Milestones
  • Time management
  • File storage
  • Message boards
  • Project management
  • Portfolio management
  • Resource management
  • Demand management