Category : Help Desk

22 08, 2016

ITSM: Adding Structure When It’s Needed

2024-12-09T04:27:58-08:00August 22nd, 2016|

IT Service Management (ITSM) is all about helping organizations align their IT services with their business needs. It is an approach to IT Management that seeks to make the delivery of IT services efficient, process-driven, and proactive. Key ITSM concepts Increasing Efficiency in IT organizations The driving mission of ITSM is to increase efficiency. Management [...]

11 08, 2016

Et Tu, Delta?

2024-07-26T03:47:58-07:00August 11th, 2016|

This past week, an airline company with a reputation for punctuality, and with one of the best reliability records in the industry, was left dumbfounded as over 1,000 flights worldwide were grounded. No, we're not talking about Southwest Airlines. This time, it's Delta. Like Southwest, the cause is IT-related: a power control module failed. Also [...]

9 08, 2016

Southwest Airlines Favoring Profits over IT Infrastructure?

2024-08-14T00:45:14-07:00August 9th, 2016|

The four unions representing Southwest Airlines’ pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and ground operations are calling for new leadership at Southwest. All four unions, which represent nearly 80 percent of the airline’s 50,000 employees, voted “no confidence” in the airline’s CEO Gary Kelly and COO Mike Van de Ven. In a joint statement issued August 3, [...]

26 07, 2016

Southwest’s Summer Screwup

2024-07-26T04:00:10-07:00July 26th, 2016|

There we were in Oakland airport last Thursday, having dutifully arrived at 5 am for our 6 am Southwest Airlines flight to Salt Lake City. I had heard about the computer “glitch” that Southwest had the day before, and saw the long lines and bleary-eyed people when we arrived at the airport, but I [...]

7 07, 2016

Implementing a SharePoint-based Help Desk That Meets ITIL Service Desk Standards

2024-12-18T03:02:35-08:00July 7th, 2016|

In the late 1980s, the UK government decided to tackle the need for standardization in the burgeoning IT industry. Over time, this set of standards coalesced into a program called IT Service Management (ITSM) and, within that program, a specific subset of practices evolved that is now referred to as ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library. [...]

20 04, 2016

Document Verification Powered by SharePoint

2023-04-18T07:07:13-07:00April 20th, 2016|

Gone are the days when document verification meant reading company memos thumbtacked to a bulletin board or attending impromptu policy-related meetings. A wide range of contractual requirements and governmental regulations, coupled with a need for more effective employee training, have resulted in a need for formalized and verified employer-to-employee communications. In essence, organizations need [...]

1 04, 2016

Manage Equipment Leases with SharePoint

2021-01-21T10:24:01-08:00April 1st, 2016|

Equipment leasing is a procurement option that has increased in popularity over the years, particularly for young companies who don’t have large stores of capital on-hand. Leasing, which is the rental of equipment over a specified time period, enables companies to quickly compete without having to break the bank. There really is no limit in [...]

9 03, 2016

Using SharePoint for Security Management – More Ways to Protect Resources and Ensure Compliance

2021-01-21T10:34:54-08:00March 9th, 2016|

Last December, we posted a blog article about how Microsoft SharePoint is “particularly well-suited” to manage user access requests. With the right enhancements and configurations, SharePoint can give teams the power to regulate access to physical and digital resources and thereby protect their organization's security. Controlling who has what access to data and systems is [...]

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