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Enterprise Service Management: ITSM for the rest of us

Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is the extension of IT service management (ITSM) principles and capabilities to other areas of an organization; Human Resources, Financial Services, Legal, Facilities, etc. This will typically include not only using the same processes or practices used in ITSM, but also the same technology (for example, tools such as InvGate Service Desk) as a means of work enablement.

What is Enterprise Service Management?

Enterprise service management (ESM) is the extension of IT service management (ITSM) principles and capabilities to other areas of an organization. This will typically include not only using the same processes or practices used in ITSM, but also the same technology (for example, tools such as a Service Desk) as a means of work enablement. As a starting point for better understanding of what ESM is, there’s a need to first understand what ITSM is...

Hardware vs. IT vs. Software Asset Management - Why the need for specific asset monitoring tools?

Hardware asset management (HAM), IT asset management(ITAM), and software asset management (SAM) are all closely related fields that deal with the maintenance of IT assets in an enterprise. Asset management is managing and tracking the lifecycle of all your enterprise’s assets, from physical to digital. They ensure your enterprise has full visibility into its assets to make informed decisions about what it needs to do with them.

How to Get Ahead of Recurring IT Tickets (Use Case)

Learn how one Financial Institution stopped a flood of recurring IT tickets in its tracks with an automated 1-click fix When an L1 agent faces a mounting pile of IT tickets, it is hard to be anything but reactive. They need to resolve the issue as fast as possible and restore employee productivity. But when it comes to resolving the same IT ticket over and over again, no Service Desk team should have to do that more than once.

How to Quickly Fix Collaboration Tool Crashes After an Update (Use Case)

If your employees’ collaboration tools are out of date, they are out of luck. As employees continue to work remotely, they, as well as hybrid and in-office employees, heavily rely on digital collaboration tools. Picture it. If all the applications on your device went down, the first ones you would notice would be your digital collaboration tools. So, if they crash, employees will be impacted almost instantly.

No Bug, No Problem: Solving Employee Adoption and Usage of Zoom (Use Case)

If the Service Desk sees IT tickets pile up around a particular application, their first thought will be to identify and troubleshoot a recent issue or bug. However, employee frustrations aren’t always from technical failures and those tickets can be much harder to diagnose and resolve.

Top 7 IT service management metrics you need to measure

How do you measure the success of your IT service delivery if you’re not closely monitoring the numbers that dictate the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization’s service delivery? As IT leaders, you need to measure the performance of service desk processes by tracking critical ITSM metrics to understand the impact on overall business goals. Many IT service management (ITSM) metrics can give you a clear picture of where you stand on the IT service delivery podium.

Basic Characteristics and Objectives of Corrective Maintenance

There are several types of maintenance used by organizations, some of them are proactive and some are reactive in nature. However, several organizations do not know which type of maintenance will be suitable for their business. In this blog, we will learn about corrective maintenance and the objectives of corrective maintenance. Will this maintenance be good for your business? So, without wasting any time let us begin!

Is ITIL for Everyone? Pros and Cons of ITIL

ITIL is probably the most used framework in the IT world right now. But it's easy to start taking it as undisputed truth, and something we don’t always ask ourselves is whether the ITIL framework works in every single scenario and for every industry. And, while we’re not shy about singing its praises, we also like to keep things real. Therefore, let’s take a look at the ITIL framework and ask ourselves: what are some of the pros and cons of ITIL?