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A Close Look Into Help Desk Metrics & Service Desk KPIs

How can you deliver quality support, retain existing customers, and expand your customer reach without measuring customer support performance and identifying areas for improvement? You can’t, at least not to the optimal level that today’s customers expect. Helpdesk metrics are essential tools that measure the performance of a support team. By analyzing these metrics, businesses can identify areas where the team is excelling and areas where improvements are needed.

How DBAs are Using SolarWinds DPM and Marginalia to reduce MTTR

Database performance is critical to business revenue. Slow and non-responsive databases can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue from poor customer experience and downtime. High expectations in performance require IT infrastructure to function at full speed. In 2006, an Amazon study found that every 100ms in added page load time cost them 1% in sales.

5 Best Practices of Network Security Monitoring

According to Accenture’s “State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2021” report, security attacks have increased 31% from 2021 to 2022. This statistic shows that organizations are not ready with a robust security plan and lack continuous network monitoring, resulting in security loopholes. Efficient network infrastructure is crucial for the success of your enterprise.

Ultimate guide for Helpdesk Management System

Businesses rely on customers. That is a simple truth. Even as organizations develop products and offer multiple services, they look for customers who buy what they sell. For, without the revenue generated by this transaction, how would they grow and develop more products to sell? You could say that customers fulfill a fundamental need for businesses to thrive and flourish. However, as they grow and the number of customers increases, managing them and their expectations can become challenging.

How Is Inventory Management for Warehouses Important to Increase Productivity?

“How much Inventory is left for the next batch of production?” Is this easy for you to answer this? If not, then there is a management glitch, which you must take care of. If your organization is still keeping a track of inventory manually it must be a time and money-consuming task. Whereas, if an organization wishes to switch to an automated Inventory Management Software, it makes the task very easy. Let us first know what inventory is & how inventory management helps!

How to Monitor the Use of Pirated Software Inside the Organization

There are costly outcomes for any organization as a result of not knowing how to monitor pirated software. Hence, detecting it should be part of your internal software audits. Pirated software can be a source of malware, putting your entire IT infrastructure at risk. As you probably know, copying software and sharing it for free with anyone else is deemed copyright infringement.

The Theme Park Workplace: A Modern Approach to IT Operations

IT teams in modern workplaces are no longer spending the bulk of their time troubleshooting and break/fixing issues. As in any service industry in the consumer world, IT service workers are now expected to deliver a great experience to their consumers – the employees. Managing the workplace has become much more like managing a theme park, where every aspect of its real estate should exhibit interest, joy, and fun; everything that makes up a great experience.

7 ways to build a better service desk

The recipe for a delightful employee experience is all about adding heaps and heaps of delightful service desk experiences. Think about it, what good is a service desk if it doesn’t solve your employees’ day-to-day tech issues? According to Forrester’s The State Of The Service Desk, 2022 report, only 66% of employees contact their service desk more than once a year.

How Observability and AIOps Are Transforming the World

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies—like machine learning (ML) and natural language processing—for normal IT operations activities and endeavors. AIOps helps ITOps, DevOps, and site reliability engineer (SRE) teams work better by examining IT information and observability telemetry.