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Seven Signs On-Premises ITSM is Still the Right Call for Your Organization

Cloud ITSM often makes sense, until it doesn’t. The article sets out seven concrete situations, air-gapped networks, sensitive CMDB data, data sovereignty, latency-sensitive change control, total cost of ownership, audit evidence, and vendor lock-in, where an on-premises ITSM tool deployment is the better fit. If two or three apply to your organization, it argues, cloud may not be the safer default it’s assumed to be.
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What IT Audits Reveal That Service Dashboards Miss

Dashboards are essential for monitoring operational performance, but they only tell part of the story. This article explores why regular IT audits are critical for uncovering hidden risks, governance gaps, technical debt, ownership issues, and AI-related blind spots that service metrics often fail to reveal. Learn how combining audits with monitoring creates a more complete view of system health and long-term resilience.
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A Process Is Still a Conversation: Humanising Service Management

Simone Jo Moore has spent decades arguing that the human sits at the center of every IT process, every tool rollout, every supplier relationship. In her Conversations with Giants episode, she talks about AI as a creative muse and a way to clear the drudgery, why SIAM is a relationship problem at heart, and why she’s still waiting for the industry to drop the dogma and get more honest about the people doing the work.
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