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Workflow Process Automation (System Management Software)

Workflow process automation is critical to the efficiency of any business operation in 2021. If you’re not leveraging the power of workflow process automation to streamline your productivity and enhance customer experiences, you should start to explore system management software. These software solutions have the potential to transform your customer experiences. When you have efficiency at the core of business operations, this ultimately leads to faster customer support.

A Question of When vs If: The Need for Your Security Incident Management Plan

Should all incidents be treated the same? Seems like a simple question, but the answer can have big implications. Think about an employee who contacts the service desk, complaining they can’t log onto their email. If the issue is due to a ‘stale’ password, dropped connection or configuration issue after an update for the email server, then the impact on the organization can be quantified to the lost productivity for the impacted employee or employees.

New Core Skills Micro-Certification Suite paths for Citizen and Application Developers

We’re excited to announce the expansion of the ServiceNow Training and Certification portfolio with several new additions for application and citizen developers on the Now® Platform. Forrester predicts by the end of this year, 75% of development companies will use low-code platforms, which enable developers of all skill levels to quickly create apps.

Turn offboarding woes into wows using Freshservice

An employee’s last day at work is almost as significant as their first one. It commemorates all the learnings, experiences, and memories they have gathered during their journey in a company. Imagine on a day like that, when you are full of nostalgia and maybe relief (wink wink), having an offboarding process that has you running around the office like Jerry can be such a mood kill.

Ivanti Recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools

It’s official! Gartner just published the latest Magic Quadrant for ITSM Tools and once again, we’re proud to have been named a Leader. This is no flash in the pan, but rather more validation for Ivanti’s completeness of vision and our ability to execute. At Ivanti, we’re committed to enabling the Everywhere Workplace so that teams around the globe can focus on what they do best.

It's the experience that matters

We say it all the time: Behind every great experience is a great workflow. But what’s behind a great experience? If you ask ServiceNow’s User Experience (UX) team, it’s software that is user friendly, visually beautiful, empowering, and productivity-boosting; and that people connect with emotionally. That provides, from start to finish, and at every touch point along the way, a fantastic experience.

Bi-Directional Integration for SCOM & your ITSM Tools

Bi-directional sync enables data to be sent to and from SCOM and your ITSM tools, in the following ways: a) OUTBOUND Notifications (PUSHES alerts from SCOM to another tool) b) INBOUND Notifications (PULLS updates on alerts into SCOM from another tool) This means you can choose which SCOM alerts to send across to your ITSM tools (Cherwell or ServiceNow), they are then raised as incidents, and then using bi-directional sync, info relating to the incidents is pulled back into SCOM (Incident ID, Configurat

Why Change Control for Your Servers Is Important, and How to Do It

The shared responsibility model doesn’t mean cloud customers don't have to worry about changes on their systems. In a brief 10-minute conversation, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg share some statistics highlighting the risks of not managing change in your environment and show a few ways to get control and turn the chore of change control into actionable insights.

How To Enable Successful Project Implementation

Do you know how to enable successful project implementation? With the support of the right tools and resources, it’s never been easier to optimize your workflows around efficiency to deliver exceptional results for your customers. StartingPoint can help to solve disconnected workflow experiences to ensure project implementation and delivery is as smooth as possible. According to research from PWC, digital project management software increases performance.