Control IT Spending With Automatic Warranty Updates
06/06/18 The larger an organization, the more difficult it is to track and predict purchasing and maintenance costs for all of the devices employees use. That’s why lifecycle and w…
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What’s the Average IT Service Desk to Employee Ratio?
05/30/18 It's common to hear that the IT service desk staff has become so swamped with work that they feel like full-time IT "firefighters," working long hours and straining to kee…
Change Management: “Are We Doing It Right?”
05/24/18 Definitions, titles, and flowcharts about change management can be overwhelming. Instead of starting there, I would like help you identify some signs that your process mig…
Five Samanage Customers on the Benefits of the Service Catalog
05/22/18 One thing we find is that many new customers are surprised by how many parts of multi-step services they can automate through the service catalog. They might not have chos…
How This Organization Built an Employee Service Machine
05/17/18 Gardner knew that IT could set up similar processes through Samanage, and to his credit, he also recognized that the entire organization could run services through one fam…
4 Causes of IT Help Desk Breakdowns & Issues
05/15/18 Because there’s now such a heavy reliance on devices, applications, and other common business technology, the IT help desk bears a heavy burden in everyday business functi…
The Ultimate Service Desk Metric
05/10/18 According to ITIL, service management is “a set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the form of services.” It’s important to rem…
How HR Can Follow the Service Desk Model
05/08/18 One way to improve the employee experience is to connect them to all of the services HR provides. I recommend building a service desk experience for HR in a four step proc…
4 Service Catalog Requests That Touch Multiple Departments
05/03/18 You can plan for all of the crossover between departments by creating automated tasks, reminders, escalations, and notifications for every service provider. You can identi…
6 Problems Your IT Service Desk Should Solve
05/01/18 Today’s IT service desks and IT organizations face countless challenges. These challenges can be effectively overcome with a comprehensive IT service management (ITSM) str…
Modern ITSM Practices: CMDB and Asset Management
04/26/18 Faster, smarter service begins with collecting the data within your organization. To date, the CMDB is the most effective way to collect, store, and organize that data. Th…
20 Employee Services to Automate: Finance
04/24/18 As any business grows, these processes become more complicated and more frequent. The good news is, you can build streamlined workflows for financial requests, complete wi…