Service Delivery is the second element in the new ITIL Infrastructure Library to be published, and will shortly be available on CD-ROM.Service providers need to offer business users adequate support - Service Delivery covers all aspects that must be taken into consideration.

Issues covered include Service Level Management, Financial Management for IT Services, IT Service Continuity Management, Availability Management Contingency Planning and Capacity Management. Each component of service delivery is discussed separately in the book. The purpose of Service Delivery is to show the links and the principal relationships between all the Service Management and other Infrastructure Management processes.

ITIL (the IT Infrastructure Library) is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world, ITIL provides a comprehensive and consistent set of best practices for IT service management, promoting a quality approach to achieving business effectiveness and efficiency in the use of information systems. ITIL is based on the collective experience of commercial and governmental practitioners worldwide. This has been distilled into one reliable, coherent approach, which is fast becoming a de facto standard used by some of the world's leading businesses.