The phone app for mobile access to Alloy Navigator™ ITSM software keeps getting better and gains more features with every update. This time around, the mobile app takes on change management to help your team request infrastructure or process-related changes and take action on approval requests using phones or tablets.

Bloomfield, NJ – February 10th, 2021 — Alloy Software, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Asset Management solutions, announced today a new version of the Alloy Navigator app on Android and iPhone. The mobile app update is available now and includes several new features to support change management and approval workflows.

The start of a new year brings the familiar sentiments of “New Year, New Me!” or in 2021’s case, “New Year, New Perspective.” Ushering in a new year provides an outlet for personal reflection but it’s also a time for organizations to review and establish their business objectives. As the new year kicks off, perhaps one of your organizational goals is to invest in a new IT Service Management (ITSM) solution.

Does the following sound familiar? You have a complex, hybrid and dynamic IT stack – with your cloud infrastructure changing by the minute and your container infrastructure changing by the second. Your monitoring and observability tools provide excellent visibility into your infrastructure, your applications and your services, but the dynamic environment in which they operate causes them to generate large volumes of heterogeneous machine data, with thousands of alerts a minute.

In the present fast-moving digital world, it has become critical for businesses to measure and track their service delivery performance especially the incident management metrics that monitor the uptime of systems, downtime due to outages, and how fast and efficiently issues are resolved because even a slight glitch in the system can cause disruption in the business processes costing millions of dollars.

For many businesses, one of their ultimate goals is to provide excellent services to their customers. But what about the employees facilitating the customer experience? Today’s employees are more reliant than ever on technology to help them do their jobs effectively, which in turn enables them to better serve external customers. And let’s face it, employees are customers, too. How can companies provide a positive employee experience with the technology they use daily?

Digital transformation has transformed the way people interact with brands, software, and making buying decisions. Businesses need to find ways to adapt with these changes and manage the customer journey. Businesses have to continue to provide excellent service and a superior customer experience in these times of transformation. In the case of service-based companies, this requires efficient customer request management.

Root cause analysis can be a difficult challenge when you are troubleshooting complex IT systems. In this blog, we are going to take you through how you can perform root cause analysis on your IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) episodes using machine learning, or more specifically causal inference. The approach shown here is included in the Smart ITSI Insights app for Splunk, with this blog largely detailing how to use the ITSI Episode Analysis dashboard.

Recently, I was asked to comment on “…what skills IT practitioners should plan to learn or improve as we head into 2021.” While a few of those thoughts appeared online I wanted to provide a bit more detail and context here. Before digging in, you should know I’ll answer this question twice. The second answer will be the IT-centric one everyone expects to hear. But the first answer is, in my opinion, more honest, accurate, and relevant.