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Bi-Directional Integration for SCOM & your ITSM Tools

Bi-directional sync enables data to be sent to and from SCOM and your ITSM tools, in the following ways: a) OUTBOUND Notifications (PUSHES alerts from SCOM to another tool) b) INBOUND Notifications (PULLS updates on alerts into SCOM from another tool) This means you can choose which SCOM alerts to send across to your ITSM tools (Cherwell or ServiceNow), they are then raised as incidents, and then using bi-directional sync, info relating to the incidents is pulled back into SCOM (Incident ID, Configurat

Why Change Control for Your Servers Is Important, and How to Do It

The shared responsibility model doesn’t mean cloud customers don't have to worry about changes on their systems. In a brief 10-minute conversation, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg share some statistics highlighting the risks of not managing change in your environment and show a few ways to get control and turn the chore of change control into actionable insights.

How To Enable Successful Project Implementation

Do you know how to enable successful project implementation? With the support of the right tools and resources, it’s never been easier to optimize your workflows around efficiency to deliver exceptional results for your customers. StartingPoint can help to solve disconnected workflow experiences to ensure project implementation and delivery is as smooth as possible. According to research from PWC, digital project management software increases performance.

100 Years of Workflow: The trends that produced the modern Australian dream

Australia’s leading demographics expert Bernard Salt predicts 3 trends driving new ways of working and marks the biggest economic, social, and demographic changes in Australia’s history—backed by workflows—that paved the way to better work and life.

5 ways federal agencies can augment a zero-trust architecture

A May 2021 executive order mandated that federal government agencies invest in both technology and personnel to centralize and streamline access to cybersecurity data, accelerate migration to secure cloud architectures, and advance toward a zero-trust architecture. A zero-trust architecture doesn’t refer to a predefined, out-of-the-box network security solution. It’s a strategy based on an agency’s cybersecurity plan that contains a collection of zero-trust concepts.

ServiceNow named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools

It is my honor to announce ServiceNow has been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools. This is the second consecutive year that ServiceNow has been positioned as a Leader and is recognized in the report for market understanding, product offering strategy, and sales execution & pricing. Today more than ever, third parties are key partners in business success.

Governments need a Total Experience model for service delivery

At its core, government should be human centered. To deliver the best experiences for people, agencies must put citizens and employees first. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for many public sector agencies to rely on legacy operating models to get work done. These models were not built with the user in mind, but rather the task at hand. Now, as governments tackle digital transformation, new opportunities arise to make service delivery and operations more human and more citizen-centric.

IT Pros to the World: Bring IT On

That’s what they say. Bring it on. I’m ready for this. I’m prepared. But no one could prep for what happened and how things evolved, right? So is preparation not necessary after all? I’ve had numerous discussions with my colleague and fellow Head Geek Leon Adato about this topic, and we even created a video with the background theme of preparation vs. instant action. Leon is kind of a doctoral student in chaos theory—or so it seems—while I try to plan things out.

City of Seattle: Adding ITAM to Its ITSM Platform Improves Service Delivery While Optimizing Assets

Anyone thinking about embarking on the journey to extend their IT Service Management (ITSM) with IT Asset Management (ITAM) should have a sit-down with Jenny Rock from the City of Seattle. A 27-year technology veteran who began her career in the telecommunications industry, Jenny has been with the City of Seattle for 15 years — the last four as Product Engineer in what is now known as the Collaboration and Workplace Technologies division.