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Faster incident investigation with BigPanda and ServiceNow Now Assist

When an incident occurs, an L2/3 engineer or SRE can spend 20–30 minutes investigating across alert consoles, combing through change records, and pinging teams on Slack or Microsoft Teams. When you multiply that time spent across thousands of incidents per year by the cost of an IT outage at $14,056 per minute, the cost is staggering. Enterprises can’t afford to waste time searching across disparate tools.

What is Cloud Threat Detection? An Ultimate Guide for 2026

What if the next breach in your cloud is already in motion, and your team has no idea how to see it? Cloud workloads are growing fast. APIs, identities, and data are spread across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem systems all at once. Every layer creates its own logs, its own alerts, and its own blind spots. Most security teams are short on visibility, context, and time. That is the gap cloud threat detection is built to close.

Ticket Taker to Team Leader: Managing an Agentic IT Workforce

The promise of AI in IT service management has been circulating for years. Chatbots that deflect tickets. Virtual agents that answer FAQs. Automation that routes requests. These are useful, but probably not the dream-state you were originally sold. What's different today is the arrival of agentic AI: systems that don't just respond to instructions but reason, act, and adapt across multi-step workflows with real consequences. The question for IT leaders is no longer whether to adopt agentic ITSM.

We're in a Patch Apocalypse. That Means These Three IT Excuses Won't Work Anymore.

On April 7, Anthropic announced that its Claude Mythos Preview model had autonomously identified thousands of high- and critical-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and every major web browser. Over 99% of them were unpatched the day of disclosure. Two weeks later, on April 21, Mozilla said it had used the same model to find and patch 271 vulnerabilities in the latest Firefox release.
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"Proactive Insights for a Reactive World": What Makes Collective IQ Different for Business Leaders

From a business executive's perspective, the core question is not how many metrics a tool collects, but how clearly it connects technology to business productivity, cost, and risk. Dave Wagner summarizes this nicely: "if you're a business leader, what's really powerful about Collective IQ is it's not just technology metrics, it's productivity metrics."

Welcome to Almaden Collective IQ

Collective IQ DEX gives you visibility into the digital employee experience, helping IT become more proactive to reduce friction, resolve issues faster, and keep employees productive and engaged. Collective IQ DEX (CIQ DEX) gives you a unified view of employee experience across devices, locations, applications, collaboration tools, and sentiment, combining performance monitoring, intelligent IT asset analysis, and employee perception with drill‑down to each user and endpoint.

Stop Unboxing Forever: The Fastest Way to Onboard Employees with Zero Touch

Stop the Manual Grind: Automate Your Device Provisioning with Ivanti Zero Touch Is your IT team still stuck unboxing and imaging every single device? Your team was hired to innovate, not to manage logistics. It’s time to reclaim your capacity and modernize your deployment process. In this video, we dive into how Ivanti Neurons for MDM (Zero Touch) eliminates the middleman. By shipping devices directly from the vendor to the user, you can bypass the manual imaging process entirely.

Collective IQ DEX: complete visibility into the employee digital experience

Collective IQ DEX (CIQ DEX) provides a unified view of the employee experience across different devices, locations, applications, collaboration tools, and even user sentiment. The platform combines intelligent IT asset analysis and employee perception, with drill-down capability to the level of each user and endpoint.