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Make Reporting a Part of Your IT Service Catalog
April 11, 2018
Tim Lawes
With an effective employee service management strategy, you can ensure that internal resources are aligned across departments. The service catalog lets you create a menu of services for employees to…
20 Employee Services to Automate: Facilities
April 10, 2018
Chris McManus
Though it’s a bit cliché to “expect the unexpected,” that’s what we ask of the facilities department. The service catalog will help them do just that, building out workflows with…
20 Employee Services to Automate: Human Resources
April 5, 2018
Chris McManus
Typically, internal service is associated with the IT department, but it’s easy to make a case for human resources as the greatest provider of employee service. From the moment an…
5 Fundamental Strategies for Cybersecurity
April 3, 2018
Paul Parker
Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he offers suggestions to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Agencies should focus on the basics to protect against attacks The government’s…
GDPR and Data Security in ITSM
April 2, 2018
Danielle Livy
Personal data is a huge part of creating maximum employee and customer service through ITSM, so it’s a good time to look for these data protection qualities in your ITSM…
Cognitive Bias in IT Decision Making
March 29, 2018
Jordan Martin
Logic and objective thinking are hallmarks of any engineering field. IT design and troubleshooting are no exceptions. Computers and networks are systems of logic so we, as humans, have to…
Using Technology in HR for a Seamless Hiring Process
March 27, 2018
Chris McManus
It only makes sense that HR and IT would share some of the same strategies in service delivery, so they actually intersect quite often.
How Efficiency and Security Needs Shape Agency Clouds
March 27, 2018
Paul Parker
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist As more agencies adopt the cloud, here’s an applicable article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he suggests achieving…
Out Of Office: Monitoring
March 26, 2018
Matt Crape
One of the biggest complaints you’ll likely hear after moving to Office 365 will be about its speed, or lack thereof. Now that data isn’t sitting on your LAN, there…
The End of the End User in ITSM
March 22, 2018
Chris McManus
As product users diversify, we suggest a new term to better capture their service needs. End user is impersonal and generic. We want to think of them as who they…
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