ASL's goal is the professional development of application management 
This is achieved by offering a framework within which the processes of application management are brought in relation to each other. The framework also serves as a steppingstone for categorising best practises that have been developed. In addition to the framework, ASL contains a uniform glossary. By using the terminology contained in this glossary, parties concerned with applications management are in a better position to communicate with each other.

Aim of this site
The aim of this site is to provide more information about ASL and to show interested people, companies and institutions how to use ASL. It also contains information on how you can be of help in the further development of ASL.

ASL is freely available to everyone!
ASL is a public domain process framework. This means that everybody can use the knowledge provided in this framework and its related 'best practices'. The ASL BiSL Foundation is responsible for the maintenance and renewal of the framework and the related 'best practices'.

ASL 2
In The Netherlands a new version of ASL has been launched on May 19th 2009. This new version will be translated into English later on this year. For a summary of the differences between ASL and the new version of ASL download this publication: 2008-04 ASL, adapted to the IT-services world of the future
Note: in this article the new version of ASL is called ASL 1.1. Later on, ASL 2 has been chosen as the definite name for the new version.