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12. 12. 2020 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Roadmaps in Jira Software

Are you looking for a solution that allows you to manage issues and projects with Roadmap technology? Jira Software might be right for you, and the interesting thing is that you can try it out for free! In this article I’ll explain how. Choose the combination of Atlassian products that you think will help you…

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30. 09. 2020 Gabriele Cecco NetEye, Service Management

GLPI – SIM Card Data Migration from Plugin to Core

Beginning with GLPI version 0.83 a very useful plugin to record SIM card data was available. The plugin was created by Walid Nouh and then updated by Anthony Piesset and Thierry Bugier Pineau, and was very convenient for keeping track of company SIM card data. In addition to the specific data of the SIM like…

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30. 06. 2020 Gabriele Cecco NetEye, Service Management

Open a Ticket in Jira Service Desk Directly from NetEye 4? Piece of Cake!

Have you ever wanted to open a ticket in Jira Service Desk when NetEye 4 highlights a problem? Here’s a recipe for connecting NetEye 4 to Jira Service Desk Cloud.
Preparation Time:   About 20 minutes
Difficulty:   Easy
Ingredients   …

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30. 03. 2020 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

The Beauty and Power of JQL

In this period of Smart Working I am deepening my study of Atlassian products, in particular Jira Software and Jira Service Desk. One of the things that impressed me most about Atlassian products is the flexibility of the search engine given by the JQL (Jira Query Language). I must say that initially when I saw…

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18. 12. 2019 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Use EriZone to Maintain and Improve an ISMS based on ISO 27001

This year my colleague Mirko and I had among our annual goals the use of EriZone to support ISO 27001. The project was not highly detailed, so therefore we felt free to interpret it the way we thought would be most useful for a medium-sized company. Obviously we needed to know exactly what ISO 27001…

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26. 09. 2019 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

How to Reduce the Open Tickets Number in an IT Service Desk and Live Peacefully

If you think you don’t need to reduce the open tickets number in your Service Desk, ask your Service Desk Manager how many they are. Take care that Open Tickets are all those not closed (in all queues), no cheating! Did you do it? Did the answer surprise you? Then keep reading because this article…

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25. 06. 2019 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

EriZone: A Simpler Way to Make Your Processes Simple

Dozens of new toy ideas arrive every day at Kenner Toys. Each of them must be evaluated and approved by all three partners: the brothers Huey (the Marketing Manager), Dewey (the Sales Manager) and Louie (the Finance Manager). They often travel to remote places around the world so it is Uncle Donald who must verify…

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26. 03. 2019 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Add Some Style to Your Notifications

Some time ago, a customer told me about his need to produce, via EriZone, a summary document containing the data collected in the ticket dynamic fields. One way to do this is to take advantage of the EriZone Ticket Notification Module. Using the native editor in the notification module, I created an HTML table and…

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21. 12. 2018 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Facilities? Make Them Organized!

Speed is not enough Japan, Chiba Prefecture:  A blue van with a mustachioed little man on board speeds quickly through the area of the Makuhari Messe I.C. Complex. From a distance, the clerk at the gate, even though already warned via Telegram about the urgency, recognizes him immediately: a bit from the screech of the…

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25. 09. 2018 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Be Like Bill. Talk To Your EriZone Consultant.

It’s 16:00 on the first Friday in April Jeff is sitting in his office chair, and responds at the first ring of his CISCO VoIP phone. Bob’s screams come out of the receiver and Jeff instinctively pulls it away from his ear. Bob isn’t satisfied that the tickets opened by his group are always resolved…

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19. 06. 2018 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

A New Transition Action for Activity Management

This article will show you an EriZone innovation you can introduce into your process: a Transition Action for Activity Management. One of the main uses of this new feature is in the area of HR. There is no doubt that onboarding of a new employee in a company requires that multiple activities are fulfilled by…

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01. 04. 2018 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Easily Connect EriZone with Power BI Desktop to Create Effective Dashboards

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words; in the case of data representation, this is even more true. Let’s take a step back and focus on the data. When analyzing or reviewing a ticketing system, it may be that simple questions do not have easy answers.  For example: What are the most…

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22. 12. 2017 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

An Underestimated Indicator: AccountedTime

The realization of an effective Service Desk should be considered a success.  On the other hand, the possibility of increasing efficiency is a necessary benefit for containing infrastructure costs, or for invoicing them to users with a pay-per-use model. The metrics and KPIs that we already use help us to measure service desk tasks, user…

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20. 12. 2017 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

How to Integrate the EriZone Customer Database with Web Services

One of the key points in the EriZone configuration is the connection to the database that contains information on the users of the system. A database without information on users has a negative effect on the incident management process. Let’s imagine that you are a Service Desk operator who has to work on an urgent…

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10. 07. 2017 Gabriele Cecco Service Management

Keeping an eye on your EriZone process tickets

Usually, 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…

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