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Service Request Management Process

The service request management process is critical to maintaining efficient operations for any organization. By managing and tracking service requests, businesses can ensure that customer issues are resolved promptly and effectively. No matter in what domain or industry you are operating your business, requests are a standard process from employees, suppliers, or customers.

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How Telecoms Companies Can Usher In A New Era Of Customer Service

Few sectors face the level of pressure on their customer service teams that telecoms businesses do. From helping new home owners get set up with super-fast internet, to keeping families connected across continents, customer experience is everything in telco. Providing some of the most important services to keep the world connected, though, is a demanding responsibility to manage. Whether you're working from home and trying to join an important meeting, or catching up with an old friend, when connections falter, frustrations rise quickly.

Define and track business outcomes with a goal framework

Highly successful companies and individuals share one similarity: They have an extremely clear vision of what they want to achieve and why. They know that although all work delivers outcomes, not all outcomes yield the same value. That’s why goals and a goal framework are important. Goal setting has always been essential to business success. Businesses today face different conditions and need systems to support their unique challenges in managing goals.

What is Help Desk Software: 2023 Overview

A help desk can be an important and essential component of a successful business. The HubSpot Annual State of Service in 2022 reports, “A remarkable 91% of respondents agreed with the statement ‘our help desk system increases productivity.” Not only do help desks provide service to organizations, they also deliver a lot of value. To capitalize on this value, businesses should look to increase help desk efficiency. One of the best ways to do this is to utilize help desk software.

Guide to Proactive IT support and problem solving with dedicated tools

As organizations increasingly adopt more devices, applications, and other technologies, IT teams addressing problems before they arise is a vital part of avoiding downtime, maintaining productivity, and ultimately growing revenue. While a reactive approach has traditionally been good enough, the most successful organizations are increasingly taking proactive measures to ensure employees always have access to what they need with little or no downtime.

Alternatives to Hiring for IT Help Desk In-House

IT help desk support has been a constant need in organizations from small businesses to enterprises. Then, the pandemic spurred an increase in demand for help desk employees, and the tried-and-true tactics and strategies that were previously used to hire in-house help desk employees don’t seem to work as effectively. Recruiting and hiring for these positions has been very difficult in the current candidate-driven market.

7 Help Desk Automation Tips You Can Start Using Today To Save Time, Effort, and Costs

When we look at the calls our help desk receives, we see many of the same issues repeatedly. Some of the most common calls help desk agents receive involve issues like password resets, new hardware requests, and generating standard reports. And when we examine our IT environments as a whole over the last decade or so, there has been a huge emphasis on automation. Why? We have learned that automation reduces risk, streamlines workflows, and makes everyone more productive.

4 ways to future-fit your business to thrive in uncertain times

Uncertain times are often a catalyst for important innovations. During the Great Depression, for example, inventors created nylon, magnetic tape recording, and the first working helicopter—all of which are still in use today. To be prepared for the future, you need to take stock of where you’ve been, what you’ve accomplished, and where you want to go. Let’s look at four tech trends that are resonating with ServiceNow customers.

3 steps to reduce IT Tickets without impacting End User Satisfaction and Productivity

Recently, a top consulting firm’s VP, of IT Operations, managing 80K endpoints asked: “What shall we do to Drive down the Service Desk cost by 30%?” This doesn’t come as a surprise. In fact, we’ve been hearing this question from many IT teams lately, across all industries. EUC managers know that reducing Service Desk costs will directly impact employee satisfaction and result in an increase in escalations.