Automation & AI Articles

Linking Experience Management

Linking Experience Management with Existing ITSM Capabilities

The business reliance on IT means IT must take operations and ITSM very seriously. This article by Phyllis Drucker demonstrates the connectivity between existing ITSM practices and employee experience improvement.
Why Do Companies Need to Change ITSM Tool?

Why Do Companies Need to Change ITSM Tool?

Has anything changed with the traditional levels of ITSM tool churn? It’s time to get more industry data or, to be more precise, to obtain up-to-date insight into the state of ITSM tools and why organizations need to change ITSM tool. Please take this poll.
Streamline Ticket Triage and Reduce Customer Churn with AI

Streamline Ticket Triage and Reduce Customer Churn with AI

This article considers two common hurdles for ITSM and how to address them: inefficiency of manual ticket triaging and high customer churn due to long ticket resolution times.
Hottest ITSM Trends for 2023

The 5 Hottest ITSM Trends (and Topics) for 2023

We asked our readers to choose their five most important ITSM topics for 2023 relative to creating new best practice content to help. This article shares the results, along with a comparison to the 2022 results.
Tips for IT Self-Service

ITSM Improvement: Tips for IT Self-Service

Providing employees with self-service access to IT services is commonly seen as a key initiative for overstretched IT service desks – with the aim of reducing costs, speeding up resolutions and provisioning, and delivering a better employee experience. But few are getting it right! This article of tips aims to help.
Automation for Password Resets

Automation Helps Reduce Tickets and Improve Security

With Forrester Research finding that a single password reset costs $70, and Gartner showing 30%-50% of all service desk calls are for password resets, something really needs to change. This article explores.
ITSM Help 2023

ITSM Help in 2023 – What Do You Need?

Every year, ITSM.tools runs a quick, one-question poll to understand the “ITSM help” readers would like in the year ahead. Please help by taking this years poll to tell us which topics will be important to you in the year ahead.
Why AI and Automation Powered ESM and ITSM is Now a Must

Why AI and Automation Powered ESM and ITSM is Now a Must

ITSM and ESM tool vendors have developed intelligent solutions that integrate AI into their solutions. These ITSM tools include AI modules or integrate AI to address a variety of business concerns, including worker shortages, as well as improving the end-user experience.
State of ITSM

The State of ITSM Two Years into the Pandemic

This article shares the highlights of the most recent State of ITSM report looking at the impact of employee remote working, challenges related to the pandemic, technology adoption, and the business view of IT.
Machine Learning

How Reliable is Machine Learning in AIOps?

What happens when machine learning leads to the crash of your IT systems, shuts down servers and applications, or takes actions you cannot have control over? Machine learning is the foundation of AIOps and automation, but to what extent can we depend on it, and how reliable is it?
AI Improves Knowledge Sharing

How AI Improves Knowledge Sharing in ITSM

Knowledge hoarding is a big challenge organizations face today. To this end, AI-enabled tools have considerable potential to manage data and help organizations to transform people’s experiences and knowledge accumulated over time into collective knowledge for the organization.
Patch Management

How to Improve the Patch Management Process

The typical patch management process consists of much more than simply implementing the update. Alongside the physical deployment, each organization will have its own change management process. This work can be tedious, thankless, and time-consuming. This article offers help to make patching easier.
IT Helpdesk Issues and Automation

Solving Simple IT Helpdesk Issues with Automation

Have you not changed your ITSM tool in years because making minor changes is too cumbersome and expensive? Then it might be time to move on. The good news is that most modern ITSM tools provide task automation and easy reporting to save valuable time and resources.
Hottest ITSM Trends for 2022

The 5 Hottest ITSM Trends (and Topics) for 2022

We asked our readers which topic areas they and their fellow ITSM practitioners would like content-related help with in 2022, and here we share the results.
ITSM Help

What ITSM Help Do You Need in 2022?

As we kick off 2022 it’s time for you – our readers – to let us know which topics you need the most help with in the year ahead, by completing our quick one-question poll. Vote here.