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Why Understanding and Reducing Technical Debt Matters

Technical debt is a term that comes up frequently in IT organizations—whether to characterize software development, tech stack, or infrastructure. For instance, does your organization have operating systems that you keep around because they have legacy code or support an application critical to your operations, but whose vendor is long out of business? Maintaining legacy systems can be considered a form of technical debt.

October Cumulative Update for the Alloy ITSM/ITAM Platform

Alloy Software released a new cumulative update to the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform. This update (2022.1.1) includes quality improvements, improves stability, and resolves a number of issues reported in earlier versions. The update involves Alloy Navigator Enterprise, Alloy Navigator Express, and Alloy Discovery Enterprise.

Steps to optimize Asset Management for Large Fintech Organizations

In the past three years (post-covid-19), we have seen a major decline in manual processing. Technology is on a boom, there is a major shift in how work was previously done and the way it is done now. If we talk about Financial Institutions, there is a major shift in how the tasks are now performed. Previously they used to rely on their employees for Asset Tracking and Management as they did not have a lot to focus on.

How modern service operations drive fast resolution of IT issues

Managing technology services and operations can be like trying to jockey around road hazards in a vehicle that doesn’t have all the features you need for the drive. Just as your navigation technology helps keep your journey on track, full visibility into IT issues is vital. That’s what automated service operations offers. When different teams use different tools with different views of data, it can be a struggle to see if there’s a problem.

New Honeycomb Integration With ServiceNow

Today, I’d like to tell you about a new community-contributed integration that connects Honeycomb to your ServiceNow workflows. My new integration reimagines what’s possible when connecting observability tools with ITSM systems. This post explains how it works and how to get started with it.

Ivanti Neurons for Discovery

Ivanti Neurons for Discovery delivers accurate and actionable asset information in minutes. Enjoy visibility in real-time using active and passive scanning techniques and third-party connectors. In this video we take a look at this cloud-native Ivanti Neurons for Discovery solution and its key features and capabilities that help you better understand your hardware and software estate. Get the most from your asset investments, make informed decisions about the performance and health of your assets, avoid unnecessary purchases, and help to improve your security posture.

What is an Asset Reservation System?

How often is it that your employees are looking for an asset only to find it in use elsewhere by someone else? Does it mean that you invest in an endless supply of assets for availability 24x7x365? Regardless of the size of your business, it is not feasible to ensure that your assets will always be available and free so you can lay your hands on them when the need arises. A better solution is to have an asset reservation system.

The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Management and How Observability Helps Solve Them

When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM product. Even as Microsoft Outlook gained popularity and functionality, the cost of changing email clients was insurmountable, so the company continued using Lotus Notes for many years.

What is a Service Catalog in ITIL? 6 Tips to Nail it!

An IT service catalog is a one-stop shop to display all the services offered by an organization — and you can build it in just four steps. In a nutshell, it's a centralized database of active IT services to provide end-users with clear an accurate information on what the IT department offers. The ultimate goal of an ITIL service catalog is to simplify the process of making an IT service request. However, mastering this self-service option requires paying attention to several details.