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Automated Employee Onboarding: The Gamechanger for New Hires and IT Teams

Too many IT tickets, not enough time. That’s just one problem that comes with a poor employee onboarding experience, and it’s one that causes deal-breaking difficulties for new employees, and just as importantly, IT leaders in the IT service management (ITSM) department. Ninety-three percent of employers said that a good onboarding experience is critical for retention of new employees, according to market share data from Finances Online. The total cost of voluntary turnover in 2020?

4 Smart Automation Systems to Improve Your Warehouse Business

Are you looking for ways to streamline and improve your warehouse business? Automation is the way of the future, and it can help boost efficiency levels and productivity with minimal investment. From inventory management systems to robotics solutions, there are a variety of smart automation systems available that suit any operational environment. In this blog post, we'll go over just four of these automated technologies-each designed to sharpen up those essential processes in your warehouse.

The 7 IT Automations for Highly Effective Organization: IT incident Remediation | Low Disk Space

No organization is immune to outages, unplanned interruptions, or quality reduction of normal service. But having a streamlined response plan can ensure these situations are dealt with more effectively to restore normalcy. In a world where increasingly IT efficiency is being measured by mean time to resolutions, triaging and remediating IT incidents as soon as they occur can directly impact the business in a positive way.

DevOps Cheat Sheet: Deployment Automation

Deployment automation can simplify and speed up your software delivery cycle. It can reduce risk, allow teams to easily test after changes are made, and help provide consistency for the overall development pipeline. If it sounds complicated, we’re here to break it down each step into a cheat sheet that provides tips and best practices for the deployment automation process.

Improved software compliance with packages-allowlist

Having a list of software that is allowed to be installed on a host is a strategy to prevent and fix security gaps and maintain compliance with operational guidelines. This zero-trust methodology ensures that only explicitly permitted applications are allowed to be present on a host unlike package block-listing which enumerates an explicit list of software that is not allowed to be present. In fact, with a software allow-list, you are essentially block-listing everything except the software you allow.

Why Network Automation Is an I&O Imperative

While network automation tools can help infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams improve their agility, lower their costs, and reduce the risk of manual errors, network management stubbornly remains a largely manual process. According to a recent Gartner report, less than 35% of enterprise network activities are automated today, forcing enterprises to run largely using a ClickOps model.

MSP Automation: Transform & Scale your MSP Business

MSP Automation was the main focus of our recent webinar, which covered how Managed Service Providers can transform the scalability of their businesses by removing the headaches of manual request processing. The webinar was widely attended by enterprise IT staff too , particularly those with an ethos of delivering an experience (rather than a service level). The same principles apply, so here’s an overview of what was covered during the session.

Scaling DevOps: 6 Tips for Starting Out + 4 Pitfalls to Avoid

Growth is universally considered a good thing for businesses. Do more work, make more money, get your products and services to more people. But you’ve got to make sure your IT tools and processes can keep up. For organizations experiencing change, scaling DevOps is one of the most important factors to consider in sustaining that growth. In this blog, we’ll share some of the most salient criteria, use cases, and considerations for scaling DevOps in your organization.