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xMatters Ninja Release Updates - xMatters Demo

Join Belinda Joseph, Sr. Director of Marketing Events, and Corey Blakeborough, Solutions Architect, as they highlight and walkthrough some of the fantastic new features that rolled out during the xMatters Ninja release. Some of these great new features include the service dependencies map, the automation of digital and business response, and brand new unified alert reports!

Equitably distribute on-call responsibility and streamline incident response with Round Robin Scheduling

PagerDuty is excited to introduce Round Robin Scheduling. Round Robin Scheduling allows teams to equitably distribute on-call shift responsibilities amongst team members. Automatically assigning new incidents across different users or on-call schedules on an escalation level ensures that teams are resolving incidents as efficiently as possible. And, by balancing the workload across multiple users, there’s less risk of burnout.

What exactly is Digital Operations?

IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), digital optimization, and the creation of new digital business models are all examples of digital transformation. The concept of combining company processes with agility, intelligence, and automation to build operational models that delight consumers while also improving performance is known as digital operations.

Intelligent Swarming vs. Tiered Support: How Customer Service Teams can use PagerDuty to Swarm Critical Issues

Most support organizations today adopt some form of the traditional tiered support model. It is one that is based on a process of escalations and customer handoffs. Under this model, customer issues get escalated through multiple levels of a support hierarchy, with three tiers being a common workflow.

Learn how PagerDuty can help address critical work across all departments

PagerDuty’s Operations Cloud helps organizations with critical work across the entire business, from IT teams to customer service to human resources, marketing, sales, and more. With PagerDuty, organizations can prioritize accurately, respond efficiently, and reduce operational overhead. In this blog post, we’ll share examples of how PagerDuty can be used for critical work in all departments, not just IT, using our new Solution Guides for Business.

The Human Side of Being On-call: 5 Lessons for Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Life While Being On-call

Within DevOps, we talk a lot about the on-call process—but what about the human side of being on-call? For example, what are effective ways of managing stress and anxiety during a shift? How can one manage life situations that make being on-call difficult—such as being responsible for watching the kids during an on-call rotation? And how can an empathic team culture help prevent burnout and turnover?