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Category Archives: Metrics

Keys to an IT Best-practice Reporting Framework

March 22, 2018by optimalconnections Leave a comment

There is a lot of detail in ITIL 2011 about designing the proper “Measurements Framework”, but without a timely and effective Reporting Framework to sort this data, convert it to […]

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