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Understanding Artificial Intelligence: The Basics of AI

You’ve heard about artificial intelligence everywhere. It’s been represented and discussed in popular media like films and television, as well as in extensive and potentially fearmongering think-pieces saying that its sentience could spell the end of our times. But one thing is for certain: artificial intelligence is very real and — despite what certain sci-fi films might tell you — a really helpful tool for us humans.

Is Customer Success cutting-edge in the age of B2B and SaaS?

It’s no secret that you’ll need a solid product and a good sales and marketing team for your company to expand. However, to maintain this growth, one must stay ahead of the game in this constantly evolving industry. In SaaS and B2B worlds, Customer Success is the avant-garde and for all the right reasons. Customer Success is evaluated by adjusting one’s business to evolving customer expectations, social trends, and economic realities.

Five customer service channels and their impact on EX

As the pandemic pushed businesses online overnight, companies quickly scaled automation and self-service technology like chatbots and knowledge based FAQs to deflect and resolve employee support issues. However, IT teams have a big opportunity to go beyond resolving tech requests and make it a delightful exchange that deepens relationships across the business.

Asset & Inventory Tracking App: One Solution for All Industries

These days competition is so high everyone wants to utilize technology to its full potential which is why a mobile application for business is essential. Every businessman knows that nowadays every adult owns a smartphone. That is why almost all businesses have their own mobile application. However, for asset management, organizations utilize traditional asset tracking methods. As a result, lots of errors occur in data and work delays occur because no proper planning is done.

COBIT Framework: A Different Take on Service Management

COBIT is one of the most widely used frameworks for IT governance. Among ITSM frameworks, COBIT is best known for aligning IT strategy with the overall business goals of the organization. Initially released in 1996, the framework has become popular among organizations for managing their IT risks, ensuring compliance, and keeping ITSM on track for achieving organizational goals. With this article, we hope to introduce you to the COBIT framework.

How One Company's IT Service Desk Used Automation to Reduce Incident Tickets

How a Northern-European car manufacturer dramatically reduced incoming tickets related to low disk space using 4 key automations. Incident tickets are an unavoidable, routine aspect of working in IT. But failing to identify and solve the root cause of the issue behind repeated tickets will cause unresolved tickets to pile up, creating a huge disruption for IT and employees.

Enterprise Service Management: ITSM for the rest of us

Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is the extension of IT service management (ITSM) principles and capabilities to other areas of an organization; Human Resources, Financial Services, Legal, Facilities, etc. This will typically include not only using the same processes or practices used in ITSM, but also the same technology (for example, tools such as InvGate Service Desk) as a means of work enablement.

What is Enterprise Service Management?

Enterprise service management (ESM) is the extension of IT service management (ITSM) principles and capabilities to other areas of an organization. This will typically include not only using the same processes or practices used in ITSM, but also the same technology (for example, tools such as a Service Desk) as a means of work enablement. As a starting point for better understanding of what ESM is, there’s a need to first understand what ITSM is...

No Bug, No Problem: Solving Employee Adoption and Usage of Zoom (Use Case)

If the Service Desk sees IT tickets pile up around a particular application, their first thought will be to identify and troubleshoot a recent issue or bug. However, employee frustrations aren’t always from technical failures and those tickets can be much harder to diagnose and resolve.

Hardware vs. IT vs. Software Asset Management - Why the need for specific asset monitoring tools?

Hardware asset management (HAM), IT asset management(ITAM), and software asset management (SAM) are all closely related fields that deal with the maintenance of IT assets in an enterprise. Asset management is managing and tracking the lifecycle of all your enterprise’s assets, from physical to digital. They ensure your enterprise has full visibility into its assets to make informed decisions about what it needs to do with them.