Since ITIL v3 was first released in 2007 it has seen adoption by many organizations. Last week OGC announced on their Best Management Practice web site in “ITIL Mandate For Change” that ITIL v3 will be updated. This is not ITIL v4, but an update of the existing edition since the framework will for the most part will remain unchanged. Since ITIL 3 was first released a change control log has … [Read more...]
Service-Now Wins 2009 Service Desk Institute Award
Service-now.com, the pioneer of modern SaaS for IT service automation, today announced it has been named the winner of the Service Desk Institute 2009 IT Service & Support Technology Supplier of the Year award. For the first time ever, SDI surveyed end users to determine the IT service management market’s favorite vendors. Service-now.com and three other vendors were selected as finalists … [Read more...]
Top Three Issues For The Service Desk
Poor knowledge of customers; pressure to handle increased call volumes, faster, across multiple departments; and managing complexity of change are major headaches for service desk staff today. The top three issues for today’s service desk have been revealed by Hornbill Systems, a leading provider of service management software with the ‘human touch’. Visitors to Hornbill’s stand at the recent … [Read more...]
Today’s Service Desk Is at the Core of Corporate IT Service Management Initiatives
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today released its latest research report entitled, "The Aging Help Desk: Migrating to a Modern Service Desk." The study found that the help desk has evolved beyond its role of simply recording and responding to IT user issues. While that responsibility persists, today's help/service desk is at the … [Read more...]
Web Help Desk Announces Affordable SaaS and On-Premise Lite Editions
For nearly a decade before the buzzwords "SaaS" and "Cloud Computing" entered the mainstream, Web Help Desk has provided the service desk industry with its award winning hosted help desk software. Today, Web Help Desk announced an affordable Lite Edition for small to medium businesses, K-12 schools, collegiate departments and governmental agencies. This new Lite Edition is available as both a … [Read more...]
Numara Software Receives 2008 Product of the Year Award
Numara Software, Inc., a leader in service desk management solutions for IT professionals, announced today that Numara FootPrints 9 has received a 2008 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine (www.cismag.com), the leading publication covering CRM, call centers and teleservices since 1982. Numara FootPrints 9 is the latest … [Read more...]
Free Help Desk Software Announced by Web Help Desk
Web Help Desk, a leading cross-platform help desk software solution, today announced the release of a Free Edition of it's web-based incident management software for small business, K-12 institutions, and small government organizations. The Free Edition has no trial period or expiration date, is completely free from ads, and includes one full year of help desk software upgrades. … [Read more...]
CA Releases Unified Service Desk Solution
At CA World 2008 in Las Vegas CA announced the release of CA Service Desk Manager r12. This release unifies seven typically separate products into one to drive greater value for IT. CA has announced the planned release of CA Service Desk Manager r12, which is designed to unify into one product what other vendors sell as separate products, including service desk, change management, configuration … [Read more...]