Providing support to customers has a cost to the company; it doesn’t matter whether the support is for internal or external users. When we talk of serving internal customers, ITSM obviously comes into the picture. ITSM is an important IT investment that has a direct bearing on the quality of an organization’s IT services, but has a significant cost attached to it. The cost aspect of an ITSM solution can be managed using a self-service portal. Want to know how?

Information technology service management (ITSM) tools streamline and regulate how IT services are delivered. ITSM tools include help-desk (e.g., ConnectWise Manage and ServiceNow) and monitoring software, providing smart ticketing capabilities and live system statuses, respectively. Unfortunately, Gartner Research reports that organizations tend to overbuy ITSM tools beyond their needs. For instance, organizations purchase unnecessary capabilities and features when adopting new ITSM technology.

Forrester has recognized ManageEngine as a contender in the Enterprise Service Management (ESM) space in its latest Forrester Wave: Enterprise Service Management, Q4 2019 report. The report covered twenty-three criteria and recognized fifteen providers in the ESM space.

Managing a Service desk is like firefighting. You are always on your toes; the next incident can arise anytime even though you are buried under tons of service requests. So, what to do? The very definition of an incident is unplanned disruption of a service or services; this makes incidents by nature non-standard and un-predicable. Service requests, on the other hand, are better defined since there are standard deliverables.