Australia’s government has big aspirations to increase public service capability and capacity. By reducing its reliance on external firms and bringing capabilities in-house, the government hopes to boost efficiency, improve spending, and become a more equitable, inclusive employer. This transition won’t necessarily be easy. Manual processes and disparate legacy systems will make it difficult for government agencies to deliver great employee experiences.

These days technology is essential for businesses as their clients only want the best technology. Moreover, competition is high and having the best technology is significant for running daily operations successfully. Therefore, when an organization is equipped with a lot of assets in order to keep them maintained. In the market, there are several technologies available for effective asset management such as Barcode, QR Code, RFID, GPS, BLE, NFC, IoT, etc.

Release Management is one of those processes in software development that most of us would benefit from doubt. However, we think the process is good enough and needs a few tweaks to improve. The release management process combines the release management procedure, the related project management process, and the people involved. The release management process can also be referred to as the release management life cycle or release process.

Digital transformation is a term you hear a lot these days, but it’s not always clear what a business means by it. For companies using the Now Platform to reinvent how they work, it has a pretty clear and compelling meaning. ServiceNow customers are using the Now Platform to expand their automation initiatives beyond department-specific, isolated tasks to include processes that cross organizational boundaries. After all, the typical business process doesn’t stay within a single department.

Since the release of the first iPad, businesses have been clamoring to use it as a corporate device. Over the years, more enterprise capabilities have been added to iPads, allowing IT admins to provide protection while fulfilling various use cases – depending on whether the device is corporate-owned or a BYOD deployment.

Every manufacturing unit thinks of maximizing its profits, which can be done by enhancing its production or reducing expenses. Asset management software can be helpful in increasing return on investment (ROI). To increase productivity, one must follow a rigid process of good management in the whole system. Automation plays a very important role in this.

Have you ever been in a job situation where you have no idea what to do? You look at the others, and they appear to be just as confused as you are, and you realize that no one else has any clue about what they should be doing either. If you run a business, you quickly learn that good communication is paramount and one of the primary keys to maintaining a productive business. Communication affects every single aspect of your workplace, especially when it comes to your place of operations.

Businesses are always on the lookout for cost-efficiencies across their digital workplaces – but in times of economic uncertainty, departments that consume a lot of a company’s budget and resources are placed under the microscope to an even greater extent. IT departments in particular have been subject to scrutiny when it comes to cost-efficiency.

For any business to excel it must have a set of rules to follow, and a management team to tell what is best for its organization. There are multiple assets in an organization, if they are not being managed well then there is a direct impact on the business’s performance. But thanks to the technology that has grown enough to help the organization manage assets in a very effective manner through the use of software like Asset Management Software.

The impact of ransomware attacks on healthcare is as alarming as it is under-addressed. These attacks on the United States healthcare system alone are causing an annual burden of nearly $21 billion, including well over $100 million in ransoms. While the financial costs help illustrate the scale of the problem, the true cost is the tragic reality of impacted patient care – including higher patient mortality rates.

Every manager in the real estate industry wants to minimize the organization’s expenses and ensure every asset and equipment is available where it is required so that no work operation hindrance occurs. In order to maintain a real state structure, it is important to create a complete list of assets attached to each real estate. However, when all these activities are done manually then it leads to several issues. This is where automated Real Estate Asset Management comes into play!

When you visit the About section of a company’s website, you probably expect to find information about the company’s culture and values. In how many cases are those statements more hype than reality? Does the company do the things it needs to do to help its employees be their best? It’s never been more critical to foster employee engagement and productivity.

Innovation in DevSecOps must keep pace with the speed of the dynamic, volatile modern cybersecurity environment. Yesterday’s solution worked beautifully…yesterday. What has it done for me today? Continual iteration and speed are paramount, but they’re not without risks. As a SaaS provider, how do you know that the latest evolution of your product works at scale? How do you know that it works at all?

Technology is the catalyst that propels business innovation. It’s the means of ridding inefficiency, delay, and inconsistency from business processes. Technology is the essential element of success for virtually every business in every industry. That’s why technology excellence ranks at the top of every business leader’s list of priorities. Maintaining the level and quality of technology service you need to be competitive comes with many challenges.

Back in May of this year, Verizon published its 15th annual Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) for 2022 which states that 82% of breaches involved the human element, whether it is the user of stolen credentials, phishing, misuse, or an error, people are the biggest contributors to security incidents and breaches. The past several months has also resulted in numerous phishing attacks via corporate email and SMS text messages.

Self-service is a process by which end-users can find solutions and access resources independently. It was not so long ago that employees had to either write an email or approach a service representative in person to request a product or service or get an issue resolved. However, the modern workplace has evolved in such a way that self-service is key. One of the primary reasons is that offices are not just restricted to physical spaces anymore.

An organization is equipped with a lot of assets and inventories, and they are essential for running day-to-day operations. If an essential asset is not found or it suddenly stops working, then it impacts other business operations as well. These types of scenarios are common when asset maintenance work is done manually. What’s the solution? It’s fixed asset management software. This software simplifies daily work and gives stability to work.

Android 13, the latest release from Google, is here. For IT administrators, this means making sense of new enterprise features and enhancements: what changed, why should you care – and most importantly, what should you do about it?

In today’s digital world, organizations are constantly undergoing change. They’re moving to the cloud and rolling out DevOps at scale—all in the name of driving innovation. But moving from a monolith to microservices can lead to applications becoming increasingly distributed. When problems arise, customers don’t care how many teams and services you have, or how complex your architecture is. They only care that your services work when they need them to.

These days Business competition is high which is why choosing the right technology is very important as clients also want only the best for effective asset management. As they want access to the system all the time on their mobile phones as well. This is where SaaS-based asset management comes into play.

The definition of operational excellence is undergoing profound change. Instead of an enterprise consisting of multiple islands of expertise and efficiency, operational excellence now means breaking down the operational barriers to improve collaboration across departmental lines. This more holistic approach unites the complementary expertise of different teams to create a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts.

Field service management is a vital part of business operations. It equips employees with the resources needed to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Streamlining communication, making decisions, and predicting issues before they arise are just a few of the challenges facing field service management. At ServiceNow, we understand how crucial it is for businesses to keep work flowing across various business assets and stakeholders. Here are three ways to help do that.

The latest 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Endpoint Management Tools report has been published! Here at Ivanti, we’re excited Gartner recognized us in the Leader quadrant for completeness of vision and ability to execute. 2022 marks the first time we’ve been recognized as a Leader, after Gartner named us their only Visionary in the UEM Magic Quadrant for 2021. But what does being named a “Leader” or a “Visionary” by Gartner really mean?

The Datadog Service Catalog helps you centralize knowledge about your organization’s services, giving you a single source of truth to improve collaboration, service governance, and incident response. Datadog automatically detects your APM-instrumented services and writes their metadata to a service definition before adding them to the catalog.

For effective asset management organizations need to improve their daily operations and business growth is the need of the hour. However, managing assets manually brings new challenges every day which impacts business in every way. That is why organizations need to invest in technologies for effective asset management. So, without wasting any time let us begin! But first, let us cover the basics!

It is often the case with innovation that the return on investment is unpredictable or too long to justify an investment. In a recent study by MHI and Deloitte, "Supply Chain Disruption Fuels Investments in Technology," supply chain industry leaders identify the lack of a clear business case as the number one barrier to adopting innovations. Across all eleven innovative technologies the study examined, the responses were the same.

Today’s employees enter the workplace with a new expectation: they expect to use the technology they want to use. But can IT really manage a workplace where you can bring your own stack? Ten years ago, the concept of employee experience conjured images of well-decorated, comfortable offices, with ping pong tables and beer on tap. It’s a construct of employee engagement that now feels almost painfully out of touch.

All organizations aim to grow their business and reduce their other expenses such as operational costs, equipment maintenance cost, and so on. However, it is not an easy process as organizations have lots of assets. For this process organizations require assistance. This is where EAM comes into play. It is helpful in reducing expenses and helps in optimizing business activities. In this blog, we will know what EAM is and why organizations should invest in EAM solutions. So, let us begin!

If your organization is looking to improve its IT service management (ITSM) and/or IT Operations Management (ITOM) capabilities, then it’s probably considering Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, which is commonly called “AIOps.” But what is AIOps, and how will it help your IT organization’s IT management capabilities and, ultimately, business operations and outcomes? Let’s start with an AIOps definition.

The manufacturing industry is one of the biggest industries in the world as almost all other industries are dependent on the manufacturing industry. It plays a crucial role in countries' growth and each manufacturing unit is equipped with lots of assets and equipment that are valuable to the organization. However, lots of manufacturing units do not keep track of their assets and as a result, their assets are lost, and operation delays occur frequently.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) modernization is a huge undertaking. ERP environments are laden with customization that can increase technical debt and impede maintenance. Organizations need to achieve a clean core while delivering a consumer-grade experience that bridges various systems of record without missing a beat. ERP environments are complex and always evolving. They’re messy and busy. They require many manual processes and span multiple, siloed systems.

It can be tricky for large organizations to track employee software licenses given the multitude of applications and activities that continuously take place across the business. On a given day, a typical organization with 10,000 employees using only a dozen applications still results in more than 100 thousand application interactions. Each of these employee experiences has the potential to create IT issues that IT needs to stay ahead of without going over budget.

As explained in the earlier “What’s ITOM?” blog, there are various definitions of IT Operations Management (ITOM). This variation has a knock-on for everything related to ITOM, including the relationship between ITOM and DevOps. This issue is further complicated when people and organizations have different views of what DevOps is and isn’t. Hence, we must start with a single definition for ITOM and DevOps.

Stock is one of the biggest costs for some associations, which is the reason most organizations are aware of stock levels. Before PCs, monitoring stock included single-stage estimations done by hand per thing, per area. This made it troublesome or almost impossible to accomplish complete visibility across huge supply chains. That is why an inventory-intensive organization must invest in an automated inventory management system.

This is an increasingly popular question for IT professionals. In part, this is driven by the need for organizations to use IT Operations Management (ITOM) in conjunction with more traditional IT service management (ITSM) because of the ever-increasing reliance on technology to enable business operations and outcomes. To help with your understanding, this blog explains what ITOM is, why it is needed, and what it entails.

More and more companies around the world are using cloud solutions to run their applications, software or to store their data. But what about cloud compliance? The democratisation of the cloud is not surprising as it provides access to virtual data storage where companies no longer need to buy or maintain their own IT infrastructure. However, with cloud solutions, the security of user data should not be overlooked. There are cloud certifications and regulations that can help you in your choice.

Last year, we announced our partnership with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to work on the Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture project. After a year of collaboration with its industry partners, including Ivanti, NIST recently released its preliminary draft, NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-35 Vol B, for public comment.

Inventory is an important part of asset management. In order to perform maintenance efficiently, it is crucial to have inventory available. Otherwise, not only the time of the maintenance team will be wasted, but they will also have to repeat the process again. However, there are consumables that are the hardest to keep track of, because they are small and frequently used. These consumables are nuts, bolts, helmets, gloves, etc.

What happens when employees leave jobs they’ve had for years in order to pursue new opportunities – and then realize they’ve made a mistake? That’s the question many workers are faced with in 2022, as the Great Resignation has paved the way for a new trend in the labor market: the Great Regret. In 2021, when the job market restabilized more than a year after the pandemic began, we saw a massive uptick in workers leaving their employers for new jobs.

One of the great promises of digital transformation is its ability to vastly enhance the customer experience. By empowering your workers with the tools and information to deliver extraordinary customer service, you create increased value for your customers and your business. However, driving customer digital transformation requires a shift in mindset and approach.

Now, more than ever, the employee experience (CX) and customer experience (EX) are intertwined. Improving CX has a positive impact on EX, and vice versa. “Companies that excel at experience delivery don’t think of the two as separate,” notes Dave Wright, chief innovation officer at ServiceNow, in the Summer 2022 issue of Workflow Quarterly. “Instead, they align EX and CX to multiply the effects of each.

Usually, maintenance is performed based on two factors first is when asset failure has occurred and second is scheduled maintenance. In both cases, asset maintenance is done when the asset is in good condition or when it is too late. This is where condition-based monitoring maintenance comes into play. This maintenance is proactive, and maintenance is given to assets when it is required. For this purpose, assets are inspected regularly, several asset tracking techniques are used such as IoT.

A recent news report shows the federal government is struggling significantly more than the private sector when recruiting new employees. Axios reporter Emily Peck writes: “While the number of private-sector jobs surpassed its pre-pandemic level, there are 664,000 fewer people employed in the public sector, according to the government jobs report released .” Peck speculates this disparity can be attributed to the inflexibility of government work.