Tag: ServiceDesk Plus

Six Steps to Implementing Change Management that Works

Solid change management capability will help you boost your ITSM maturity, break out of the “firefighting mode,” align IT activity with business objectives, and transform IT from a service provider to a business innovator. However, these benefits don’t come easily

Six Steps to Build an Effective Help Desk Knowledge Base

​​ John, the IT help desk manager, has been facing several productivity issues, including longer resolution times, and tickets have been piling up as a result. John thinks implementing an effective knowledge base might improve his team’s productivity. After all, a knowledge base will​ store resolutions, workarounds, and best practices that help reduce ticket inflows, improve resolution times, increase first call resolution rates, reduce the percentage of repeat incidents, and increase the self-service portal usage.

World Cup Soccer Meets World-Class Help Desk!

Soccer stirs the passions of fans throughout the world. And with the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil just hours away, people from every field of endeavor find themselves united by a common bond that sends their emotions surging with excitement and anticipation

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

Guest Blog : No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?

This is a guest post by Kirstie Magowan. At least that is what my grandmother always told me…I think I heard a collective gasp around the IT Service Management industry when ManageEngine announced earlier this month that the basic version of their ITSM solution – ServiceDesk Plus – would now be offered free, with no licensing restrictions to current and future customers…so is this the ITSM version of a free lunch, or just a clever marketing strategy? free-lunch My first thought was “OK, what’s the catch?” ManageEngine is in the ITSM game for profit, not philanthropy, so obviously they are viewing this as a way to increase their market share and upsell this offering to higher value products, we have to assume that they are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts! How free is ‘free’?