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# What Is an OLA? | Operational Level Agreement
> An internal agreement between IT teams or departments that defines the responsibilities and service levels each group must maintain to support overall SLA...

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## What Is an OLA? | Operational Level Agreement
What Is an OLA? Operational Level Agreement (OLA) an internal agreement between IT teams or departments that defines the responsibilities and service levels each group must maintain to support overall SLA commitments to the business. OLAs break down external SLAs into internal team-level obligations.

## Why This Matters for Your Business
An SLA promising 4-hour incident resolution means nothing if internal teams don't have clear agreements about their piece of the process. OLAs ensure that the network team, application team, and service desk each know their response time obligations — preventing finger-pointing and SLA breaches caused by internal coordination failures.
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