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Service may refer to:

Technology


=Computing and telecommunications

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* Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
** Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
** 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, the function provided by a server (computing)
* Service, local implementations in software:
** Service, a program in the wp>services menu under macOS that processes selected data
** Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix or Linux
** Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user (but run under a service account in a Microsoft Windows system
* Network service
* Radiocommunication service, according to wp>ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19
* Telecommunications service, including:
** Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
** Software as a service (SaaS) in cloud computing
** Web hosting service
** Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
* wp>Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
** Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
*** wp>GSM services


Activities


* Administrative service, a required part of the workload of wp>Faculty (academic staff)|university faculty
* wp>Civil service, the body of employees of a government
* wp>Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
* wp>Military service, serving in a country's armed forces
* wp>Public service, 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

Economics and business


* wp>Service (business), an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes
* wp>Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum
** wp>Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
** Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy, including:
*** wp>Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
** wp>Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
* wp>Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
** Service-level agreement - SLA
** Managed services
** Outsourcing
* Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations


See also


* Altruism, a principle or practice of caring for the welfare of others
* wp>Goods and services
* Server (disambiguation)
* wp>Volunteering, action taken to benefit others for no benefit to the one performing the action