BiSL® Certification - Business information Services Library

The Business information Services Library (BiSL®) framework provides guidance on adopting a professional and systematic approach to the management of business information. It interfaces with and complements other frameworks and certifications such as ASL®2, BRMP®, COBIT®5, ITIL® and TOGAF®

While IT ensures that information is stored, processed and readily available, effective business information management ensures that an organization is able to respond to specific business demands, and to actually realize the value from their investments.

• Recognition as a professionally qualified business information management practitioner.
• Better understanding of the processes involved in the execution of business information management from operations to strategy.
• Ideas to improve how business information management is currently executed.
• Improved ability to bridge the gap between business information management and the neighbouring domains of application development, application management and IT services management.

• Better information for the business processes and more effective use by the end users.
• More productive interaction with the IT function.
• Better return on their investments in the information provisioning.
• Fewer surprises as a result of changes in the user organization, business processes and the organization’s environment.
• The ability to demonstrate that they are managing their information as a valuable asset.

BiSL is aimed:

• Business roles such as key users, business system administrators, system owners, process owners, (Agile) product owners, information managers, business analysts, contract managers who deal with demand and use of information and technology
• Customer facing senior ITSM professionals (e.g. Service Managers, BRMs) who want a better understanding of the activities on the ‘other side of the fence’ in order to collaborate more effectively with their business counterparts
• Business information management process improvement consultants
• Auditors who want to ensure that the business is fulfilling their responsibilities to manage information as a critical business asset.

Exam Format

• Multiple choice
• 40 questions
• 26 marks required to pass (out of 40 available) - 65%
• 60 minutes duration
• Closed-book.