iTop includes a complete Change Management module to track and manage all change requests.
It helps:
Requestors to describe their needs.
Change managers to approve or reject changes.
Change supervisors to:
- Analyse impact of change
- Control a change during its complete life cycle.
Change implementers to describe:
- What will change
- How it will change
- What would be the fallback plan
Using this module, users can describe the CIs impacted by a change, as well as the contacts to be notified.
A powerful life cycle allows IT managers to enforce processes. The level of enforcement is fully customizable along with the data model.
Benefits:
Reduce the impact of changes on your business
Increase visibility and communication of changes
Reduce backed out changes and also better back out procedure
Absorb easily large volume of changes