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Five Smart Service Desk Features to Implement
July 10, 2018
Liz Beavers
A smart IT service desk will leverage the power of automations and artificial intelligence to create shortcuts for your organization.
ITSM: The Perfect Place to Begin Your Digital Transformation
July 3, 2018
Chris McManus
Digital transformation impacts every department, in every organization, in every industry. Although it has a big return, it can be expensive, and it can be difficult to adjust to the…
How NOT to Monitor Your Database
June 28, 2018
SolarWinds
Do you have experience putting out backend database fires? What were some things you wished you had done differently? Proactive database monitoring is more cost efficient, manageable, and sanity-saving than…
5 Integrations That Will Improve Your Service Desk
June 28, 2018
Chris McManus
The service desk solution is your primary tool to help employees, but there are other applications they use. The right integrations will help your service desk work in unison with…
Implementing 5 Essential ITSM Best Practices Throughout Your Organization
June 26, 2018
Joseph Brown
ITSM best practices already help remove the service friction in IT, but they can also be helpful in daily requests for other departments. In this post, we’re going to look…
Disaster Recovery – The Postmortem
June 26, 2018
Dan Frith
So you’ve made it through a disaster recovery event. Well done! Whether it was a simulation or an actual recovery, it was possibly a tense and trying time for you…
The Effects of Software-Defined IT on Admins and Engineers
June 22, 2018
Kevin Blackburn
When it comes to networking specifically, software-defined networking is a model in which the use of programmability allows IT professionals to increase the performance and their ability to accurately monitor…
Applications Aren’t an Island
June 21, 2018
Raff Poltronieri
In my last post, I talked about microservices and how their deep connection can offer a quality application. Now, I want to move up a layer. Not only between microservices, but…
Adopting a Distributed Tracing Architecture
June 21, 2018
Raff Poltronieri
In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavior and experience—similar words,…
5 Samanage Customers Use Service Portal for Better Employee Experience
June 21, 2018
Liz Beavers
Not only will the service portal give employees a one-stop shop to submit a ticket, request a service, or search the knowledge base, but it also allows the service providers…
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