I often get asked to explain the “best way” to involve partners that provide external (3rd level) support. In IT service management, 3rd level support is commonly defined as the external providers that need to be involved when the first level support and the specialists in 2nd level support cannot provide, or are not able…
Read MoreEriZone is mainly used as an (IT) SM tool to manage incidents, service requests and changes, and to document the assignment and return of devices. However, a ticket system like EriZone can also support other processes – for example, those that need to provide structured documentation. In fact, many standards require reporting risks or other…
Read MoreA service desk system such as EriZone leads users to pursue recommended processes and is thus able to gather a large amount of structured data. In addition to EriZone’s standard dynamic statistics, which can be assembled and configured by the agents themselves on the web interface by combining the data sets provided by the API,…
Read MoreIn a previous blog post, Towards Self-Adaptive Service Desk Systems, I identified three basic service desk configurations for the practical management of service requests and incidents. In this article, you will find an overview and further details about these service desk configurations, including recommendations on how to work effectively with them in EriZone. I also…
Read MoreServicedesk-Systeme sind in vielen IT-Abteilungen von zentraler Bedeutung für viele Arbeitsabläufe, von der Incident- und Serviceanfrage bis zu Autorisierungen und der Verwaltung interner Projekte. Daten aus diesen Systemen werden für die Fakturierung, Zeiterfassung und Kostenschätzung in ERP-Systeme eingepflegt und werden für kurz- und langfristige Statistiken benötigt. Die Tickets mit ihren Metadaten bilden zudem eine strukturierte,…
Read MoreService desk systems are of great importance to most IT departments. They are used to manage not only incidents and service requests, but also for authorizations and the management of internal projects. Moreover, data obtained from an ITSM system can be used for time accounting, invoicing and cost estimates. Finally, yet importantly, tickets and their…
Read MoreI sistemi di service desk sono molto importanti per le aziende, in quanto possono essere adattabili alle richieste di qualsiasi dipartimento, dall’IT all’amministrazione, e snelliscono la gestione non solo di incident e service request ma anche il processo delle autorizzazioni e la gestione dei progetti interni. I dati forniti dal sistema ITSM possono essere utilizzati…
Read MoreIf you don’t work in the field of IT service management, you might suppose that a service desk, and especially an IT service desk, is something quite standard… having similar services and a similarly structured support staff structures across all companies. However, despite having (apparently) a very similar goal and trying to follow a common…
Read MoreIf you don’t work in the field of IT service management, you might suppose that a service desk, and especially an IT service desk, is something quite standard… having similar services and a similarly structured support staff structures across all companies. However, despite having (apparently) a very similar goal and trying to follow a common…
Read MoreIf you don’t work in the field of IT service management, you might suppose that a service desk, and especially an IT service desk, is something quite standard… having similar services and a similarly structured support staff structures across all companies. However, despite having (apparently) a very similar goal and trying to follow a common…
Read MoreProzesse, an denen mehrere Verantwortliche und Kompetenzzentren beteiligt sind, werden in EriZone häufig mit Hilfe des Konzeptes des Kind-Tickets implementiert. Kind-Tickets sind eigenständige Tickets, die von einem Eltern-Ticket ausgehend erstellt werden und mit diesem verlinkt sind. Je nach Anwendungsfall können die Eigenschaften für das neue Kind-Tickets, wie Titel, Service, Ticket-Typ oder Antragsteller (Kunde) direkt vom Eltern-Ticket…
Read MoreIn EriZone, processes that require the involvement of multiple responsible persons and different competence centers are often implemented by using the concept of child ticket. Child tickets are independent tickets that are created from and linked to their so-called parent tickets. Depending on the specific use case, it is possible to copy data and properties…
Read MoreIn EriZone i processi nei quali sono coinvolti più persone responsabili e diversi centri di competenza, vengono spesso gestiti tramite l’implementazione del concetto del ticket figlio. Ticket figli sono dei ticket autonomi che vengono creati su base del loro ticket padre, restando comunque collegati con esso. A seconda del caso di utilizzo, le caratteristiche del ticket…
Read MoreA critical part of IT Service Management is the management of access to all kinds of IT-related resources, including not only the access to IT systems, networks and software, but also the provisioning of devices such as phones and laptops, contracts (e.g. phone or data contracts with 3rd party operators) and often also items regarding…
Read MoreEine wichtige Aufgabe des IT-Servicemanagements ist die Verwaltung des Zugriffs auf IT-bezogene Ressourcen. Darunter fallen nicht nur die Zugänge zu IT-Systemen, Netzwerken und Software, sondern auch die Bereitstellung von Geräten (Telefon, Laptop etc.) und Verträgen (z. B. Telefon- oder Datenverträge mit Drittanbietern). Zudem werden oft auch Ressourcen vom IT-Team verwaltet, die sich auf das Facility…
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