Service

Service may refer to:

Acts of service

• Administrative service, a part of the work load of university faculty
• Civil service, career employees of government
• Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
• Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
• Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
• Domestic service, employment in a residence
• Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
• Military service, a country's armed forces
• Public services, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
• Selfless service, a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award
• Service of process or police administration — and warrants, by Sheriffs in the United States

Religion

• Church service, Christian communal worship, often held in a church building
• Divine Service (Lutheran), the public worship of Lutheran churches
• Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship
• Service of worship, a meeting for the worship of a religious deity

Economics and business

• Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within the service-product continuum
  • Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy
  • Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
  • Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
    • Service design
    • Service management
    • Services marketing
• Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
  • Professional services
  • Service level agreement (SLA)
  • Managed services
• Building services engineering
• Service provider (SP), including in IT service management (ITSM):
  • Communications service provider (CSP), including:
    • Network service provider (NSP), including:
      • Telecommunications service provider (TSP)
      • Broadcasting service provider
      • Internet service provider (ISP)
  • Managed services provider (MSP), including:
    • Application service provider (ASP)
    • Storage service provider (SSP)
  • Hosted service provider (xSP), combining offers of a CSP (usually an ISP) and an MSP (usually an ASP)

Technology

• The function provided by a server (computing)
• Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
  • Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network
  • Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
• Local implementations in software:
  • Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
  • Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
  • A program in the Services menu under Mac OS X that processes selected data
• Network service
• Telecommunications service, including:
  • Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
  • Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
• Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
  • Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
    • GSM services
  • Web hosting service
  • Software as a service (SaaS)
• Service mode, a hidden mode on an electronic device that can be entered by a code, giving access to service features or maintenance
• Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19

Media

• Service (film), a 2008 film
• Service (record label)

Arts

• Service, an album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
• Service, a play by the British writer Dodie Smith

Other

• Service (surname)
• Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code
• Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
• Service (motor vehicle)
• Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
• Service Tree (Sorbus domestica), a species of tree
• Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska

See also

• Servant (disambiguation)
• Server (disambiguation)
• Ich Dien