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Software vendor management is difficult. You've probably experienced it. The service desk is flooded with tickets about a specific application. Employees are frustrated. Your EUC team investigates but can’t find the root cause. So, you reach out to the vendor. Then the inevitable happens: the vendor responds with “Everything is green from our perspective”. Yet, the issues persist. Tickets continue to come in. Frustrations continue to mount.

Software plays a pivotal role in the operations of organizations across industries. From essential productivity tools to specialized applications, software assets are critical for driving business processes and delivering value to customers. However, effectively managing these assets can be a complex task due to the diverse range of software licenses, updates, and compliance requirements. This is where Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions come into play.

Software Asset Management, or SAM, is one of the most important IT Asset Management (ITAM) practices you can introduce to your organization to control costs and reduce risks. SAM is the set of processes that enables IT departments to manage their software assets at an enterprise level. An effective SAM practice can help you manage, protect, and control your IT ecosystem while supporting effective IT service delivery.

An Asset Management Request for Proposal (RFP) template sets out the guidelines to help you compare the multiple alternatives to acquire a tool that fits your expectations and needs. When searching for an IT Asset Management (ITAM) solution, each vendor offers particular packages and benefits, and it’s common to get confused as to what everything means.

The OnPage team is pleased to inform that we’ve been included in Gartner’s ® latest Hype Cycle for ITSM, 2023 report, listing OnPage as a sample vendor in the Automated Incident Response category. For those unfamiliar with it, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for IT Service Management (ITSM) highlights tools and technologies that shape the ITSM ecosystem.

Understanding the impact of digital employee experience allows IT leaders to get a sense of the maturity of their organization, set goals and drive improvements based not on trial and error, but on clear evidence derived from organizational data. Let us now gain insights into DEX of the organization using Nexthink Experience Central.

The lack of proper insights can make diagnosing incidents difficult. Another factor that can contribute to this is agents having to switch between various tools to remediate user issues. The delay in ticket resolution and escalations drives up AHT and MTTR causing the service desks to struggle.