Today I’ll present you a hidden gem in EriZone and OTRS: With a few clicks, your favorite browser’s search bar will be able to search for ticket numbers or full text in EriZone. The browsers’ search and address bar fields come with some predefined search engines, but can also be extended with your own searches….
Read MoreTwo screens for monitoring, ticketing, event management, CRM, project management and Outlook, and at least another two screens for all the applications that you need to manage… that often seems to be the minimum for working efficiently. However, you probably don’t want your office to look like a NASA flight control room… To organize the…
Read MoreThese whiteboards with handdrawn swimlanes and lots of apparently randomly placed sticky notes are present nowadays in most developers’ offices. Kanban (Japanese for “signboard”) is however not just a visualization strategy. It originated as a method for production planning, first used at Toyota, and its ideas were adopted for software development 15 years ago. A…
Read MoreA service management system collects an enormous amount of ticketing data, which often needs to be used for statistical evaluation, accounting purposes, monitoring the involvement of 3rd party companies, etc. EriZone provides several different means to extract this data: On the web interface, you can save search results as CSV or Excel files, and then run…
Read MoreTickets, ticket tickets. Tickets tickets ticket (tickets), tickets tickets. Stop! I don’t want to paraphrase Doug Zongker’s celebrated “Chicken” paper and speech (you can find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk) that probably had a bigger influence to science than Hugo Ball’s Dadaism poems to culture… Ok, let’s come back to our topic! …Tickets, tickets, tickets! Of course,…
Read More“Alexa, please tell me all the devices assigned to me!” – This may not be a frequent request in the life of a service manager (yet). However, giving your customers visibility of the assets registered in their name is a sign of transparency, trust and good organization. But let’s start from the beginning of the…
Read MoreYou need to print some training material, but after a few pages the color printer stops and just shows some error code… so what happens next? You phone the IT department, telling them who you are and where you are, guessing which printer it is… possibly the color printer on 3rd floor of the North…
Read MoreI 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 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 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 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…
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