Insights into how project managers perceive AI reshaping the project management. At the Threshold of a New Project Management Era Over a decade ago, when I first read about how AI could reshape jobs, my main question was how it would affect the role I held then: Project Manager. Years later, after experimenting with the…
Read MoreAn overview of the joint Axelos and Atlassian paper on integrating ITIL® 4 into modern ITSM workflows. ITIL® 4 Meets Agile: A New Era of ITSM with Atlassian and AXELOS In today’s fast-paced digital world, IT is no longer just a back-office function. It’s a central enabler of business innovation and value creation. As technologies…
Read MoreUsually, during a new EriZone implementation, we are not just implementing “simple” Incident Management, but also defining processes to standardize existing procedures within the company. Investing time now in the implementation of a standardized process will pay dividends later, especially in the case of multilevel authorizations or other workflows where the ticket needs to follow…
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 More“Is there any way to speed up opening new tickets?” This is a typical question new EriZone customers ask during project implementation. The reason is quite obvious: If you have a large Service Desk team that is opening several hundred tickets each day, every second counts. Especially in situations where the resolution time is critical,…
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the release of new minor versions of our IT System & Service Management solutions NetEye and EriZone. Go to the official Release Notes of NetEye 3.10 (IT System Management solution) Go to the official Release Notes of EriZone 5.1 (IT Service Management solution)
Read MoreEriZone has evolved over the last years, becoming a comprehensive Service Management solution to address enterprise requirements. The most significant enhancements of the latest version regard the areas of Service Level Management and Service Catalogue Management, as well as the introduction of new functionalities to automate and reuse processes and activities. Besides technical extensions, the…
Read MoreEnhancements Filtered ticket-view for service owner, manager and service watcher: service owners can see only tickets opened of services on which they have the owner role. Restricted company-ticket-view to available services: customer can see only tickets relative to services they were enabled to. [more details here] Filter services shown to agents: realize multi-tenancy based on services….
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 MoreWithin EriZone, customers can visualize their own tickets (though “My Tickets” view) and all the tickets created from other employees of their company (though “Company Tickets” view) in the Customer Web Self-Service Portal. In order to restrict the view to those company tickets, which concern the available services for the logged customer, a new filter…
Read MoreTo keep it short, I could simply answer this question with “Yes”. Regularly, one of the central requirements of service management projects is the introduction/integration of a CMDB. From my experiences gained from customer projects, I can just confirm this. What does this mean in terms of practical application? In this first article, I would…
Read MoreUnderstanding the real meaning of the service catalogue by the customers is the first challenge I usually meet during the implementation of an ITSM solution. It is not always so clear for the customers the distinction with the product catalogue and they often misunderstand the major component and essential part of the definition, the service…
Read MoreFor those of you who do not know, WÜRTHPHOENIX EriZone is an open source IT Service Management solution based on OTRS. It allows to efficiently and effectively manage all the internal and external incidents and service requests as well as to improve the delivery of the IT services, by increasing the customer satisfaction. WÜRTHPHOENIX EriZone…
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