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IT Service Management
DevOps The Future of ITSM and ITIL
Cloud computing allows development teams to get applications into production faster. ITSM leaders must adopt new strategies and change existing processes or risk becoming a bottleneck. Successful cloud computing requires the DevOps — the fusion of development and operations with the goal of accelerating time to market and reducing time to value. The good news
Best “Best Practice”
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Reporting in HEAT 2014
SQL Reporting services (SSRS) has been introduced to the latest version of HEAT. We are now given the opportunity to create much more complex and customized reports through SSRS and view these through HEAT2014. Some of the Features:
ITSM 7 Error: Column does not Exist
This error recently occurred at a customer site when they were inserting a new record into External Contact. This can occur when the ITSM meta-data for a table is out of synch with the table structure. First ensure it is not a caching issue – Force clear cache definitions from Admin and restart IIS. If
Does the ITIL® Framework Need a Facelift?
The following is an excerpt from a longer article, entitled ‘Does the ITIL Framework Need a Facelift?’ by Malcolm Fry. Malcolm believes the framework is an excellent tool, and his comments are not meant to be a criticism but an encouragement to improve. Relevance The eternal problem for the ITIL framework has always been to remain relevant mainly because
7 Steps to Continual Service Improvement (CSI) Success
No matter the size or maturity of your service desk, every service desk manager questions how to implement continual service improvement (CSI) and make it meaningful. Implementing CSI successfully can be hard enough; implementing it according to Pink Elephant-certification, best-practice standards is a demanding and often overwhelming process. Thankfully, Dave Jones’—of Pink Elephant—recently discussed CSI in
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Building Innovation into your IT Service Desk. Does this depend on your tool or your team?
Innovation is a slippery thing. Take some of the well-known quotes about innovation. When asked about the idea behind the Model T car, Henry Ford is quoted as saying, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. Ralph Waldo Emerson is also attributed with the aphorism, “Build a better
Delivering Business Value Metrics
Are you tired of creating endless reports that are barely even glanced at by your boss? Phil Gerbyshak recently joined us for a webinar and gave us some great advice on how to focus your metrics into something useful and meaningful to the business and to make sure your time and efforts are not wasted.
2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant
IT service support management (ITSSM) tools extend the capabilities of IT service desk tools by providing modules that automate configuration and release governance processes, and provide a business view of IT services. These capabilities enable the IT support organisation to manage incidents, problems, changes and service requests throughout their life cycles at a more efficient