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Learn ITSM and ITOM Key Differences and Similarities

ITSM and ITOM are two of the most critical concepts to understand when it comes to managing an IT department. Although both are related to IT management, there are key differences and similarities between the two that must be understood to maximize efficiency and ensure customer service. In this article, we will explain the key differences and similarities between ITSM and ITOM and how they should be used in tandem to ensure successful IT management.

Drinking Our Own Champagne: IT Automation Meets Marketing Automation

Operations management—whether IT, business, sales, marketing, etc.—has four essential main objectives: And in any industry, those objectives are driven by the most important goal, which is to generate revenue for the organization. While every single task or implementation may not directly impact revenue, the outcome of small improvements over time can be substantial. After a Google search for motivational quotes, I stumbled on James Clear’s “power of tiny gains” concept.

What's New: January 2023

We’re excited to announce a new set of updates and enhancements to the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. Recent development and app updates from the product team include Incident Response, PagerDuty® Process Automation, the PagerDuty Mobile App, Integrations, as well as Community & Advocacy Events updates. We continue to help customers further automate to optimize cloud operations and reduce the amount of issues escalated to other teams. Get started now and learn about.

Create a Status Update Notification Template in less than 2 minutes

Now generally available! With organization-based templates, companies can now customize and standardize communications based on impact, service areas, and more. This functionality will be also available via API, so teams are able to customize and leverage status update notification templates to fit their needs in any tool or context.

IT Operations Management (ITOM) Best Practices

IT operations have always served as the infrastructure’s watchdogs and first responders, but they now do much more. ITOps experts are incorporated into build/run product teams where they will share ownership and accountability with the development team, testers, and system administrators. What change might be the most challenging for an experienced ITOps professional? Production is no longer owned by IT. Today, development and the production environment work together.
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Uptime monitoring: How to track your network availability, 24/7

When it come to measuring an organization's ability to support end users and provide services, network uptime can be a great yardstick. An inability to ensure optimum uptime can negatively impact your business delivery, resulting in financial and reputational losses. If you're doing it manually, ensuring 24/7 network uptime is a challenging exercise requiring considerable resources. It is way more convenient to have a monitoring mechanism in place that can monitor network uptime and notify the network admin proactively about any bottlenecks that might lead to network downtime.

PagerDuty and FiberPlane Integration Demo

Presenter: Aparna Valsala, Solutions Engineer at Fiberplane, Using the PagerDuty and Fiberplane integration, the responding engineer can immediately start the investigation using a predefined and configurable Fiberplane template visible to all while allowing multiple engineers to collaborate on the investigation with complete visibility and context.

What is Automated Diagnostics? How to reduce escalations and accelerate resolution with automation

Join PagerDuty’s Jake Cohen (Senior Product Manager) with RedMonk’s Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation and demo on automated diagnostics, process automation, and incident response. It’s all about automation helping first responders determine if there is an issue, which domain experts (if any) should be brought in to assist, and resolving the issue as quickly as possible.

PagerDuty and RedMonk Present: What is Automated Diagnostics? Part 1 - Use Case

Join PagerDuty’s Jake Cohen (Senior Product Manager) with RedMonk’s Kelly Fitzpatrick for a conversation and demo on automated diagnostics, process automation, and incident response. It’s all about automation helping first responders determine if there is an issue, which domain experts (if any) should be brought in to assist, and resolving the issue as quickly as possible. Part 1 of this 2-part video focuses on the concept and use case of automated diagnostics.