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Top 10 Customer Service Statistics for 2023

What do customers really want? This is the question that all businesses, big or small, must answer. After all, without customers, there would be no business. Understanding what drives customer behavior and how to give them the best possible experience is essential. This article will explore the top customer service statistics for 2022. Understanding these trends allows you to adapt your customer service strategy accordingly and give your customers what they want.

How to do Asset Management in the Mining Industry

The mining industry uses a variety of tools and equipment – both IT and non-IT – in its everyday activities. From drills and equipment to work down the mines to computers and software to run its operations, it handles a wide range of assets in decentralized locations. Thus, implementing asset management in the mining industry is not an option; it’s a must.

What is the difference between availability and reliability?

When you buy a service, it’s crucial to be able to access it any time of day or night. In the world of enterprise IT, however, you can’t always guarantee these levels of quality. Organizations have to evaluate the service levels necessary for running their business smoothly. And when there are IT outages, they know what will work best for them without much disruption.

Best Practices and Processes to Organize Your Work Orders

Most enterprises have a lot of equipment and assets that require routine maintenance, if it is done over time, asset performance starts to decline, and asset breakdown risks rise. The work order process is necessary for maintenance since accurate tracking of the work is very important. It takes a lot of work to process, prioritize, and keep track of incoming work orders, especially from various channels, including emails, meetings, messages, phone calls, and more.
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Why Your Company Should Streamline Business Processes

When you streamline business processes, you increase operational efficiency and productivity by eliminating unnecessary steps. It all comes down to having the right tools in your corner. You do not need an extensive technology stack to make massive strides in streamlining processes. A single workforce management platform for unifying workflows can make all the difference. Straight off the bat, here are five key tips for streamlining business processes.

A Guide to Stack Overflow's Path to the Cloud

Like many companies, Stack Overflow is trying to get out of the business of running our architecture in our own data centers; instead, we want to offload some of the more mundane parts of system administration to a cloud service offering like Azure. I’m going to cut to the chase for the purpose of this article and concede we’ve already decided on Azure for the majority of our infrastructure and, most importantly to me, our databases.

Can an Application Exist Today Without a Database?

As a data professional, I often think about all the things around me generating data and consider where this data is ultimately being used. Have you ever taken a minute to consider exactly how much data is being generated at any point in time? I love collecting data and looking at ways it can be used and living in a “smart” home with appliances logging and reporting usage patterns certainly provides a lot of opportunities.

Building a resilient and modern workplace

When challenges arise, leaders and teams quickly assess the situation, reorient themselves, double down on what works, and pull away from what doesn't. That's why it's important for workplaces to evolve towards being resilient, human-centric, sustainable, and extremely adaptable. With the bumpy road ahead, workplaces have to adapt to successfully drive out of the recession and stay ahead of the curve.

5 easy tips for maintaining a knowledge base in your IT organization | ITIL knowledge management

A knowledge base enables end-users to resolve L1 issues, search for department-specific processes in the organization, and understand how services or products work. Learn how your organization can build and maintain a robust knowledge base using ServiceDesk Plus.

Building Cyber Resilient Ecosystems

At SolarWinds, we focus on helping our customers accelerate their business transformation through solutions designed to be simple, powerful, and secure. Over the past couple of years, we’ve made significant investments in our security and software build process with the goal of leading the industry in cyber resiliency. Recently, I spoke at the VentureBeat Intelligent Security Summit on the topic of Becoming Secure by Design with CrowdStrike Vice President of Intelligence Adam Meyers.