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Let’s face it. We’ve all been there. Attending a service review with a customer only to be faced with an incident or request that should have been sorted out months (if not years) ago. Such “aged tickets” happen for a variety of reasons – complex systems, organizational change, or even plain old “not enough people on the IT service desk.” The reality is that these aged tickets hurt us. From the business’ perspective, they have people struggling for much longer than is acceptable and from an IT perspective it means that we “can’t see the forest for the trees.” To help, here are my first five of ten ways to overcome your aged ticket problem.

Topics: ticketing system, Help Desk, Ticket Management

As you might know, we’ve recently launched a major release for InvGate Service Desk 6.0, featuring a whole new UI for improved organization and tracking of help desk activities. But the ball keeps rolling and we continue to develop new improvements.

Topics: help desk, Service Desk Software, service desk software features, Help Desk, InvGate Service Desk, Service Catalog

Managing an IT help desk is one of the most visible roles in IT. Done well, you can support your team, inspire great service, and increase customer satisfaction. Done badly, you’ll demotivate your people, have unhappy customers, and a high churn rate (in terms of both team members and help desk users). If you want to improve how you manage your IT help desk, are about to take on a help desk manager role, or simply want to ensure that you’re doing whatever you can to get things right, then here are ten tips for becoming a great IT help desk manager.

Topics: Help Desk

Incident management is front and center of your IT service provider offering. Done well, effective triaging can speed up incident resolution times, make life easier for technicians, and improve customer satisfaction. To help, here are five questions for your IT service desk to ask itself when you’re reviewing your incident categorization approach.

Topics: Help Desk, Incident Management, Major Incidents

In our opinion, the IT help desk is one the most important functions you can have in any service-oriented organization. Having a help desk in place means that there’s a single point of contact for the business to engage with IT, end-user requests and incidents are managed centrally, and nothing is lost, ignored, or forgotten about. However, there are some common mistakes that organizations make when setting up their IT help desk. Here are four such examples (of mistakes) along with our top tips for building your help desk in a way that best serves your organization and the people who work within it.

Topics: Help Desk, Help Desk Software

So, you’re about to take your ITIL Foundation Certification exam and can’t wait to get the new qualification. However, if you’re like us, it might have been quite a while since you last took an exam, and you now feel a little apprehensive about proving that you know your stuff. Plus, even if this isn’t the case, you still might be thinking: How can I increase the probability that I’ll pass the exam? Perhaps even with flying colors.

Topics: ITIL, Help Desk, ITSM

Having visibility into the work of the support team and how internal service orders are managed is one of the main purposes of a help desk. We all want to know who did what, at what time, and how long it took, to have an accurate picture and be able to make smart decisions based on data. The Time Tracking feature of InvGate Service Desk enables you to know all of that and, in addition, provides you with enhanced budget control and forecasting capabilities.

Topics: Business Analytics, Help Desk, Time Tracking, data analytics, Technical Support, Request Management

Philosopher George Santayana once said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. There’s hardly any other quote that could sum up this story so well... We usually say that with our software we help our customers help their customers, and to achieve this we had to start by helping ourselves: we had to organize our operations as a company to achieve the growth that awaited us. As we grew, the need to organize our processes became more evident. We had to continue doing innovative software development, but without neglecting support and post-sales services. Let me tell you the story of that transition, and how we went from organizational chaos to the efficiency in service provision that characterizes us today.

Topics: customer satisfaction, service management, Help Desk, Service Desk, IT service management

It’s said that we should practice what we preach. And, at InvGate, we do. We develop and sell software products, but not a single day goes by without us relying on that same software for our own daily work. We use it to manage and solve the requests of our customers, as well as monitor our assets. At the same time, our customers use our software to help their customers, through fit-for-purpose tools for assets and IT support management. We provide support to thousands of people in more than 40 countries, and we’re proud of the quality of our service.

Topics: customer satisfaction, customer service, Help Desk, Service Desk, Technical Support