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Samanage article

ITSM Views from a Vendor, with Yuval Pecht from Samanage

What exactly is your job? I am the Director of Product Management at Samanage, and I love every minute of it. I manage all of our product updates whilst having the privilege of engaging with our customers on a daily basis in the Samanage Community. This is where we get to talk about cool feature […]

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SIAM

So SIAM Isn’t Just For Large Enterprises?

Service Integration and Management (SIAM) has been around for a while but it’s still a strange or even unheard of term for many. [...]

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Tips for ITSM software

ITSM Views: Claire Agutter from ITSM Zone

What exactly is your job? That’s a very good question! I’m a director of ITSM Zone (formerly IT Training Zone). My main role is to look [...]

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Why you should do less incident management

Why You Should Do Less Incident Management

IT is a huge part of the budget for many companies, and the money spent on IT is intended to create business value and support business [...]

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Agile ITSM

Getting Started with Agile ITSM

Before you pick up a tool, you need to know what you plan to use it for. That’s just common sense, isn’t it? So naturally there’s a [...]

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ITSM – Keep It Simple

Why do people have to make things so complex? I often see organizations whose processes, tool configurations, user interfaces and every [...]

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5 Tips for Taking ITSM Outside IT

In the words of George Michael, “Let’s go outside.” That’s using IT service management (ITSM) outside the IT organization. As, unless [...]

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Customers Don’t Think Like ITSM Pros

When was the last time you thought about the language you use as an IT service management (ITSM) or IT professional? I’m not talking [...]

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What ITSM Professionals Can Learn from CRM Tool Selection

In an October 2014 blog titled Right Size Your CRM To Your Needs, Kate Leggett – a VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research – [...]

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ITIL isn't evil but

ITIL Isn’t Evil But…

At Interop New York last October I sadly missed out on an intriguing presentation called “ITIL isn’t evil. Most people who implement it [...]

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ITSM success tips

10 Top ITSM Success Tips from ITSM Tool Vendors

During 2014 I interviewed some lovely IT service management (ITSM) people for my blog, all of whom were gainfully employed by SysAid’s [...]

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ITSM events

2014: A Year of ITSM Events

It’s nearly 2015 so I decided that it would be fitting to write a quick summary of 2014 via the medium of blog. At first I thought I [...]

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Incident management

12 Tips For Getting Started With Incident Management – Part 2

Last week I posted a blog offering my thoughts and advice on getting started with incident management, based on the premise that [...]

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Joe

So in case you hadn't worked it out yet, I'm Joe! Hello there. I'm a native New Yorker and I love everything connected to IT service management (ITSM). I'm a passionate blogger and Twitter addict, and I'm also the resident IT guy at SysAid Technologies.