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The ''' Application Services Library''' (ASL) is a [[public ___domain]] [[standardization|standard]], which describes a standard for processes within [[Application Management]] (the discipline of producing and maintaining information systems and applications).

The ''' Application Services Library''' (ASL) is a [[public ___domain]] [[standardization|standard]], which describes a standard for processes within [[Application Management]] (the discipline of producing and maintaining information systems and applications). The term "library" is used because the ASL standard is based on the descriptions of best practices from the industry.

This standard was developed in the [[Netherlands]], and is related to [[Information Technology Infrastructure Library|ITIL]], [[Business Information Services Library|BiSL]] and [[Capability Maturity Model|CMM]]. It is described in several books and articles (most of them only available in [[Dutch language|Dutch]]), as well as on the official website of the ASL Foundation.

This standard was developed in the [[Netherlands]], and is closely related to [[Information Technology Infrastructure Library|ITIL]], [[Business Information Services Library|BiSL]] and [[Capability Maturity Model|CMM]]. It is described in several books and articles (most of them only available in [[Dutch language|Dutch]]), as well as on the official website of the ASL Foundation.

The standard was developed because of the inability to strucure the way of working of Application Management by only using the ITIL framework. ITIL is very useful at the operational level, at the level of infrastructure management, but lack support for application design and development. For application management ASL was defined, for Functional Management BiSL was defined.

The standard was developed because of the inability to strucure the way of working ofwithin the Application Management departments by only using the ITIL framework. ITIL is verythe usefulolder atstandard, and was embraced by the operationalIT infrastructure departments for structuring their way of working. ITIL is very useful on this level, aton the level of infrastructure management, but lacklacks support for application design and development. For application management ASL was defined, for Functional Management BiSL was defined.

In order to fill this gap for application management, ASL was defined. A similar development has led for Functional Management to the definitionof the BiSL-standard.

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