A Application Services Library (ASL) occurs as public domain standard, which describes a standard for processes inside Application Management (the discipline of making & maintaining data system & applications).

This standard was developed in the Netherlands, and relates to ITIL, BiSL and CMM. These are described within many books & articles, likewise when a official web site of the ASL Foundation.

Purpose
A ASL is arranged to simplify a run of application management by providing information which fall into ii categories: Processes for application management & a have of loose available right-practises Standard language for dialogue all about application management

A goal of ASL is to enhance & professionalize application management & to provide first-proof data system & applications.

Structure of ASL
ASL contains sextet clusters of processes, triad in an operational level, the single in tactical level & 2 in a strategic level.

Maintenance

There are 5 processes in a bunch maintenance. Maintenance is a first clustering, becautilize these processes trend lines the use of the data system. Processes in that clustering come incident management, continuity management, capacity management, availibilty management & configuration management. A purpose & goals one processes come similar one of ITIL, even so a way & a cases come different.

Enhancement an renovation

Inside this clump a majority of the operate of application management is done. Virtually all of the function of application management deals sustaining design, programming & researching applications & data system. Processes come impact analysis, project, realization, touching & implementation.

Connecting processes

A copulative processes synchronise a activities between maintenance (a utilise of a applications) & the activities changing the two. A processes come vary management & computer software control & distribution.

Management processes

A processes in that clump handle a activities inside a bunch above. Processes come quality management, service level management, dollars & cents management and planning & control.

Application Cycle management

Applications survive great deal hanker than required. Systems, functionality, conception & structure of data system remains stable above several years. This cognition is seldom utilized. These come significant that, when maintaining & enhancing systems, there is a clear see required what a demands are later, & according to that, what you bet a new one applications should look prefer. This learn from is created inside a clump application period management, by having processes prefer life span management, reference portfolio management, client organisation strategy, client environment strategy & ICT developments strategy.

Organisation Cycle Management

Likewise a first of the application management organisation, by having aspects when skills & capabilities, markets & client, is very crucial. Creating the strategy on this first is the aim of Organization Period Management, using processes when account definition, market definition, skills definition & service delivery definition

For supplementary tools, several articles, better practises & facts is (loose) available at a site of the ASLFoundation.