Tag: itsm

How to build a successful ITSM practice

Imagine you’re in an IT service desk team facing one of the following situations:A major incident impacts your service availability and brings down half of the world’s websites and services, including some owned by your customers.You’re part of a rapidly growing company and need to onboard one hundred employees a week across different locations and […]

What is vulnerability management and why should enterprises adopt it?

In the current digital era, enterprises across the world heavily rely on information systems for day-to-day operations and for accessing business-related data. In essential institutions, such as banking and financial, health, and government, protecting information is critical and any security mishap could disrupt daily operations. The intention of attackers is to either deny services until […]

ManageEngine recognized as November 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for IT service management tools

ServiceDesk Plus, ManageEngine’s flagship ITSM software, has helped over 100,000 service desks around the globe streamline and efficiently manage their IT service management processes. Now, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for IT service management tools! This is a testament to the extensive ITSM capabilities of […]

itSMF India National Conference 2014: Introductions, Conversations, and Intense Learning

The annual conference of the IT service management forum ( itSMF ) happened in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India . We were at the conference for the first time, and we met lots of new people, had interesting conversations, and learned quite a bit. We packed in a lot of learning on a single day – from Kaimar   Karu’s tip on using ‘social lubricants’ for problem solving to intense panel discussions on business values of ITSM .

Big Data in ITSM

When we talk about big data in the world of IT service management (ITSM), we’re talking about two very different things: ​ Big data tools/services that IT provides to business – to number crunch business operations data. Big data within IT operations – to handle and leverage complex IT operations data. Big data services for business operations In an increasingly competitive, data-driven world, business managers are looking for effective ways to manage and interpret business data, especially big data.​ Digitalized business operations, such as e-commerce websites and mobile banking apps, produce huge amounts of data, which makes managing them close to impossible by using traditional computational models.

How ServiceDesk Plus Helps S&K Technologies Manage Its Distributed IT Infrastructure – Customer Talk

Managing a globally distributed IT infrastructure could be a difficult task, if not for ServiceDesk Plus . Now, one our customers, S&K Technologies, offers a video testimonial on how ServiceDesk Plus makes it an easy task to manage such distributed IT infrastructures. S&K Technologies is a federally chartered corporation owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Along with its five subsidiaries, S&K Technologies is one of the most successful ​tribally owned, professional and technology services companies in the United States. Steven Klepzig, senior communications engineer at S&K Technologies, talks about the ServiceDesk Plus benefits enjoyed by his IT support team

Towards a Leaner IT: 7 Simple Ways to Reduce “Cost per Ticket”

Recently, John, an​ IT help desk manager, has been noticing a steep increase in IT expenses and, needless to say, is under tremendous pressure to bring them down. All that his team does all day is solve tickets, so he thinks reducing the “cost per ticket” could be a good starting point. To help John in his mission, we decided to tell him a little about this metric and what he could do to achieve a leaner IT help desk. Why cost per ticket? IT support is considered a cost center in most organizations and usually the first to get​ a budget cut during​ a financial downturn. ​Therefore,  IT support must remain efficient even when IT spending is reduced. Cost per ticket is one key metric that helps the IT support analyze their efficiency in handling tickets within a given budget