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Change is in the air. BigPanda can help you embrace it.

It’s time for change – my first insight from GartnerIO, 2018. During my flight to Vegas I remembered that this was probably my 15th visit to a conference in Vegas (but who can really count…after a few, it all starts to blur together). What I do remember though is that, in each of these conferences, there was one very shiny buzzword. The reason I remember this so well is because, while everyone agreed on what the buzzword was, there was no consensus on what that word meant!

OnPage's Datto's Autotask PSA Integration Improves IT Workflows and Performance for MSPs

OnPage, the industry’s leading incident alert management system today announced a new integration with Datto’s world-class IT business management platform. For the first time, managed service providers (MSPs) can take advantage of a unified view between Autotask ticketing and incident alert activities and workflows. The integration leverages the platform’s advanced ticketing capabilities by converting service tickets into intelligent alerts, all under one user interface.

OnPage - Datto's Autotask PSA Integration - Ticket creation and alerts

A new advance in incident alert management for MSPs: OnPage enabled the entire alerting process to become an integral part of Datto's Autotask service desk. MSP teams can now create workflows for alerts to be sent automatically to the person on-call based on customizable incident and ticket criteria.

How to Raise the Bar on the ITIL's Recommendations for Critical Incident Management

According to the ITIL, the framework of best practices for delivering IT services, there is a recommended process flow for how to handle major incidents. Clearly, the IT community would be well served to follow the ITIL’s systematic and professional approach, whose benefits, according to CIO Magazine.

Can You Trust Machine Learning In IT Operations?

Chronically understaffed and constantly stressed-out IT Ops and NOC teams are overwhelmed by today’s IT noise. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can help these teams because ML (and AI) are exceptionally good at processing enormous volumes of very complex data in real-time, or near real-time, and surfacing actionable insights.