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The latest News and Information on Incident Management, On-Call, Incident Response and related technologies.

How DORA will impact incident management at financial entities

The Digital Finance Strategy is a European directive that aims to support and develop digital finance in Europe whilst maintaining financial stability and consumer protection. There are three main components to the package: In this blog post, we’ll attempt to summarise the 113-page DORA proposal, highlighting how it will apply to incident management at financial entities.

New Feature: StatusCast now integrates with Google Translate

Here at StatusCast we understand the importance of a resourceful and communicative status page. A status page is the ambassador of your incident response management process, and like any good ambassador, it needs to speak the language. If your status page is now hosted by StatusCast, it is now fully integrated with Google Translate, a powerful tool that allows your subscribers and even viewers to translate your page into the language most comfortable to them.

Minimizing Data Science Model Drift by Leveraging PagerDuty

PagerDuty has an Early Warning System (EWS) model which helps the Customer Success and Sales departments ascertain the wellness of existing PagerDuty customers based on product usage and external business factors. This Early Warning System model has become critical infrastructure and the first line of defense in identifying poor product usage that could result in account churn.

Fast track video series: Integrate ticketing and messaging tools with BigPanda

BigPanda’s Agnostic Integrations provides powerful bi-directional integration for enterprise ticketing, service desk and collaboration tools such as chat and incident response, so operators can easily share BigPanda incidents with other users in their ticketing and collaboration tools of choice. With BigPanda, teams can easily automate ticket creation as well as notifications and war room creation in chat tools.

Connecting to incident.io with Zapier

At incident.io, we believe that incidents are for everyone. As part of enabling that mission, we think it’s essential to ensure that all users can create, configure, and maintain business processes related to an incident. Today, we have two approaches to support different people, products, and organisational structures: We’re excited to announce that we’re taking this further and adding Zapier to our growing list of options to automate your processes (and focus on fixing)!

Get to the Root (Cause Analysis) in 5 Easy Steps

What is one of the first things you should do when you are assigned an incident via PagerDuty? If you immediately thought “Acknowledge!” you are not wrong, but after that, it’s all about resolving the issue as quickly and painlessly as possible. The first step to resolution is to investigate what caused the incident in the first place so you can easily get a fix in place.

Understanding Cloud Services: IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS

Cloud services have skyrocketed in popularity in the past few years, providing a vast array of resources as well as a cost-effective path for the migration from on-premises servers to the cloud. In fact, cloud services are handling all the computing needs of many businesses. It’s very likely you’re already using cloud services and will continue to use more as time goes on.