This Christmas, kids all over the world were busy writing their letters to Santa with their Christmas gift wishlist Well, we don’t know if Santa gives gifts to IT teams but if he did, here’s the wishlist we’re sending to the North Pole!

Service mapping is an essential tool for IT service management, as it allows you to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the various components and dependencies that make up their IT services. Service mapping focuses on discovering data center devices, infrastructure, application dependencies and the corresponding relationships. This enables your organization to manage and optimize their IT operations, improve service delivery and more effectively reduce disruptions and outages risk.

The life cycle of an asset starts from the day it is purchased to the day of its disposal. During this whole process, there are a lot of changes in the state, condition of asset and user history, depreciation being incurred and multiple other things. It is very important to keep a track of all of this so that an organization is well aware of the asset that they procure.

“Security defense is exciting, because you’re always trying to stay ahead of the bad guys,” says Tracy T., senior staff detection engineer at ServiceNow. Who are these bad guys? They could be malware or hackers who try to threaten the security of employee data or the company network—or anything in between. Detection engineering plays a major role in keeping a company safe, especially amid changing tool capabilities and detection methods.

What do restaurants rely on these days? With the change in environment with multiple competitors growing every day, to survive in this fast-paced industry, restaurants must think out of the box and start managing their assets if they are not. There are times when they end up being in a situation which is caused due to sudden breakdown in their assets, which is not a good situation to be in. It reduces the trust of customers and ultimately leads to a reduction in profits.

Running a business is not an easy task and when it comes to running a restaurant, it is more difficult. As the restaurant service industry is growing at a very fast pace. For businesses to keep up with all the trends it is important to keep a track of all the assets in the best way possible. When all the assets are maintained and managed perfectly, it leads to a reduction in risks and an ultimate increase in profits for the business.

A help desk is a group, department, or external service that users contact for assistance through various channels.

The service request management process is critical to maintaining efficient operations for any organization. By managing and tracking service requests, businesses can ensure that customer issues are resolved promptly and effectively. No matter in what domain or industry you are operating your business, requests are a standard process from employees, suppliers, or customers.

Incident Commanders play a crucial role in the successful operation of IT service management (ITSM) teams. By applying best practices, they can ensure that incidents are handled quickly and efficiently, so that downtime for end users is kept to a minimum. ‍ This article provides an overview of the requirements for an effective Incident Commander in ITSM. It discusses the skills and competencies needed for effective incident management, and highlights some best practices for this role.

Highly successful companies and individuals share one similarity: They have an extremely clear vision of what they want to achieve and why. They know that although all work delivers outcomes, not all outcomes yield the same value. That’s why goals and a goal framework are important. Goal setting has always been essential to business success. Businesses today face different conditions and need systems to support their unique challenges in managing goals.

Hello Nexthinkers, Today is a great day for us. We just received the amazing news that for the second year running we have won 2022 Gartner Peer Insights the Customer Choice award! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our entire community and also share why this is a big deal for us.

When an organization starts to flourish the number of assets that it procures increases, and with that keeping a track of all of them becomes a task for the employees. Traditionally organizations used to keep a track of all these assets by maintaining spreadsheets, but with a major change in the way how organizations work, maintaining spreadsheets became difficult.

Maintaining a business includes several tasks that need to be done without making any mistakes. These activities are performed day to day to guarantee that everything is done in a systematic way. However, if processes are manual then things can be hectic, and chances of error is more. Most importantly there is not a great margin in restaurants, which is why saving expenses is essential for business. Hence, asset maintenance must be done regularly otherwise business will suffer.

New Jersey, December 9th, 2022 – Alloy Software is proud to announce the new release of its Alloy Navigator ITSM/ITAM suite, including Alloy Navigator Enterprise, Alloy Navigator Express, and Alloy Discovery Enterprise. The December 2022.2 release focuses on usability enhancements. The brand-new features aim to provide more straightforward navigation through the product, add more apps you are already familiar with to integrations, and introduce automated audits for macOS.

We know there are several businesses that heavily rely on types of equipment and assets in order to run their daily operations efficiently such as QSR businesses. That is why it is important to keep assets maintained. However, in these businesses, manual tracking methods are not effective, which is why asset management software is essential for Business. It provides several benefits to the QSR outlet. Although there are several businesses that utilize a spreadsheet in order to keep track of assets.

As corporate budgets shrink worldwide, product and engineering leaders are making tough prioritization calls to focus on the initiatives that truly deliver business outcomes. They’re also looking at ways to optimize costs, especially those resulting from heavy manual processes. The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q4 2022 could not have come at a more important time.

The rapid digitalization of work environments means employees are obliged to work faster and better. Achieving this means businesses are dependent on having happy, healthy, productive teams. With 69% of global knowledge workers now working remotely, it appears hybrid working is working. A recent survey of over 10,000 employees by Ivanti shows that 42% have a better work-life balance and 33% are more productive.

Do you sometimes feel that your company lacks organization and prevents you from working efficiently and securely? Here is the solution for a better inventory management! Also known as Lean manufacturing, the 5S methodology is of Japanese origin and was created for the production of Toyota factories. It focuses on the use of several tools to maximize efficiency by creating an ergonomic, clean and organized work environment.

The ITIL definition of an incident is “an unplanned interruption to or a quality reduction of an IT service”. In your IT ecosystem, an incident may be caused due to a malfunctioning asset, or a network failure. Common incidents include issues with the printer, Wi-Fi connectivity, application locks, email service, laptop, file sharing, unresponsive servers, or even authentication errors.

For IT and EUC teams, reducing costs is easier said than done. You can’t just blindly reduce headcount, delay transformation projects, or extend hardware lifecycles in the hopes of appeasing your CFO’s demands for short-term cost reduction. The reality is, rushed cost-cutting will put your service desk under pressure. In turn, such self-inflicted inefficiencies will only result in performance degradations, additional tickets, and escalations.

With organizations across industries facing inflationary pressures and the threat of recession, CFOs are forced to impose cost-cutting measures to improve cost efficiency across teams to tide through these tough times. This has resulted in IT teams being faced with a dilemma. How to improve the cost-effectiveness of the team without impacting employee satisfaction and service desk productivity?

Uncertain times are often a catalyst for important innovations. During the Great Depression, for example, inventors created nylon, magnetic tape recording, and the first working helicopter—all of which are still in use today. To be prepared for the future, you need to take stock of where you’ve been, what you’ve accomplished, and where you want to go. Let’s look at four tech trends that are resonating with ServiceNow customers.

The only constant in the technology industry is CHANGE. We all know that while change may be a constant and has the potential to bring enormous benefits to an organization, change can also be incredibly disruptive. Technology trends such as Cloud, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), virtual applications and desktops, and mobility have resulted in increased data volume, variety, velocity and complexity, and have turned IT operations management into an overwhelming challenge.

Yes, it’s that time of year again! It’s time we look ahead with hope for a successful wrap to peak season and consider the trends influencing the year ahead. The last few years have been anyone’s guess, but recent data shows us optimistic points on the horizon as we head towards 2023.

Food service outlet provides us with snacks & types of fast food, these firms are dedicated to serving food through their outlets. A lot of people come to enjoy food and they work continuously for a lot of orders they get from their customers. Machines and equipment work. What if one of your assets suddenly stops working? Asset downtime and disappointing customer maintenance expenses are a few of the consequences of sudden equipment failure. This type of scenario can be dangerous for businesses.

Enterprises are looking at Software as the key differentiator to render faster services to their customers, which has led to an exponential rise in the number of Enterprise software being onboarded and deployed. The recent move to remote and hybrid working has accelerated this trend. Currently, IT teams are managing an average of 170+ Enterprise apps in large organizations and 70+ in small and medium organizations (Okta report).

Professional services automation can play a pivotal role in the delivery of services. It is a technology platform that enables organizations to streamline and automate all areas of their professional services operations, including project management, customer support, billing and invoicing, resource management, and reporting.

Managing workplace technology is more complex now than ever before. The world as we see it has changed, leading to a burst of technological innovations aimed at creating efficient digital workplaces creating more flexibility for employees but are something of a monster for IT to manage. Managing the complexity of the digital workplace at an enterprise level requires visibility into every digital asset.

Recently, a top consulting firm’s VP, of IT Operations, managing 80K endpoints asked: “What shall we do to Drive down the Service Desk cost by 30%?” This doesn’t come as a surprise. In fact, we’ve been hearing this question from many IT teams lately, across all industries. EUC managers know that reducing Service Desk costs will directly impact employee satisfaction and result in an increase in escalations.

In today’s Digital Workplace, Managing Hardware assets efficiently is every IT team’s mandate. Despite the uptick in the adoption of virtualization in various client-side components including end users’ desktops, Their PHYSICAL DEVICE – still plays a significant role in the overall digital experience and their Productivity. However, when it comes to Managing and Upgrading these Devices, most organizations decide to replace the device based on their age.

The traditional wall between IT operations and IT services—along with tedious, antiquated processes for resolving IT issues—is harmful to a company’s productivity. It’s also soul-sucking for team members. Those conditions hinder data sharing and collaboration. As a result, IT staffers must spend hours on cumbersome tasks rather than focusing on meaningful, strategic projects that make them look forward to their workdays.