Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 22 | Page 42

FEATURE: IT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTROL IT CHANGE PROCESSES TO MINIMISE THE RISKS AND COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH RAPID UNPLANNED CHANGES. Increase user satisfaction and decrease unwarranted ticket requests with automated change notifications • Configuration Management Database (CMDB) – Consolidate disparate IT management systems into a single system of action, allowing IT to see exactly what assets are in your IT environment, what services they are related to, and how they’re functioning at all times. See the relationship between the CIs and services to proactively manage the impact of changes on your services. Monitor the quality of your CMDB data with the CMDB Health Dashboard • Asset Management – Track the financial, contractual and inventory 42 INTELLIGENTCIO details of hardware, devices and virtual assets from purchase through disposal. Mitigate risk by knowing how every system is configured, what it costs, who has access to it, and what’s installed on it. Get a complete, connected view of your assets, allowing you to identify and resolve issues faster • Request Management and Knowledge Management – Give end users a modern, omni-channel way to interact with IT and other shared services groups at any time through any device – enable self-help, request items or services and collaborate with others. Capture and package knowledge from across the organisation and make it readily available for shared or private use by IT and employees • Service Level Management – Set business expectations and gain visibility into your IT team’s service commitments and performance. Proactively manage SLAs with the color- coded visual SLA Timeline that allows managers to see individual SLA progress and events triggering stage changes. Prioritise tasks, check statuses, reassign ownership and escalate issues when needed, allowing you to always provide your best service for what matters most to your organisation. • Reports and Dashboards – Combine the power of the Now Platform with a single data model to generate and distribute important information on demand and in real time. Choose from predefined or customised reports and create eye-catching, role-based dashboards in a flash. • Benchmarks – Benchmarks uses anonymised customer data to bring you the industry’s largest and most up to date benchmarks. This allows you to compare your service management performance to the industry averages of your peers. Now, you can analyse and optimise your own performance against the best in the industry n www.intelligentcio.com