With the AlertOps ServiceNow integration, you can use automatic escalations for on-call schedules and create custom escalations. Automatically escalate to a level 2 or level 3 team and notify management and stakeholders. Set each escalation to use the notification channel you choose (email, voice, SMS, mobile app, and chat). Set your escalations to trigger reminders when a response SLA or a resolution SLA has been breached or is approaching the deadline.

A Recent Dice Article Titled – Data Breach Costs: Calculating the Losses referenced a 2021 IBM and Ponemon Institute study that looked at nearly 525 organizations in 17 countries and regions that sustained a breach last year, and found that the average cost of a data breach in 2020 stood at $3.86 million.

What are the Key Incident Management metrics/ KPI ‘s? How important is it to track Your Team’s Performance? If you are not doing so already the time is right to get your finger on the pulse by better understanding and managing your organizations incident management key metrics. How a company manages IT Incidents matters and most importantly the process has the power to impact sales – recent studies indicate 52% of U.S.

Holiday retail sales are likely to increase between 7% and 9% in 2021, according to Deloitte’s annual holiday retail forecast with holiday sales totaling $1.28 to $1.3 trillion during the November to January timeframe. Deloitte also forecasts that e-commerce sales will grow by 11-15%, year-over-year, during the 2021-2022 holiday season.

Even with all the changes in consumer behavior due to COVID-19, Black Friday and Cyber Monday is here to stay. Social distancing measures that limited instore shopping in 2020 has only led more people to shop online, and this trend is expected to continue in 2021. Preparing your e-commerce website and business for the seasonal business surge around Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021 is crucial.

In an era where speed, productivity, and user experiences matter most what are the incident management capabilities managed service provider need most to grow, transform and mature their digital operations, processes and serve more organizations, faster and more efficiently. Many of today’s enterprises still have operations that are largely manual, reactive and lack the in-house resources and expertise to undertake a digital transformation initiative.

The phrase ‘stakeholder management” assumes that stakeholders are truly informed by alerts. However, managers can only send communications out, they cannot force people to address them. To ensure your stakeholders are engaged during an incident, it is vital to set up a defined communication process. Yet, a recent Red Canary report1 found that 43% of surveyed participants lack readiness to notify the public and/or its customers in the event of a security breach.

IT process automation can have several benefits for a managed service provider. It can increase productivity, lower costs, improve quality, reduce downtime, improve SLA management and keep customers happy. Until now, IT process automation was a benefit mostly enjoyed by large organizations. However, with the introduction of SaaS tools and standards for integrating these tools, it is now possible for any managed service provider to enjoy the same benefits.

DevOps is a term for, “a cross-disciplinary practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating, rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” (Jez Humble) There is no wall between development and operations so they work simultaneously and without silos. The system focuses on uniting the developmental and operations teams in a continuous process. Agile is a software development strategy that focuses on responding to change with cross-functional team communication.

The DevOps model unites development and IT operations to create a powerful organizational culture to achieve business goals more efficiently. Formerly siloed teams can now collaborate continuously to build more robust products, with increased confidence, and achieve business goals faster.