To establish clear agreements on expected IT services and standards, the IT help desk team and the end user must be on the same page. You can set up service-level agreements (SLAs) that are practical ...

At its most basic, a help-desk application letsusers create tickets that describe their problems.Technicians use this information tobegin to diagnose the problems, fix them andclose the tickets.

Today, its Magic Total Service Desk 7.0, released in February, is not only 100 percent browser based, but uses wizards to enable creating and customizing business rules, allowing help-desk and ...

SunTrust Banks Inc. is launching an enterprisewide help desk application that it expects to allow its 27,500 employees to reset their own network passwords over the Internet. The effort should pay for ...

When the City of Des Moines, IA, decided to create a help desk from the foundation up, CIO Michael Armstrong learned quickly the importance of having an IT service management tool. "We were simply ...

Whether you’re on the IT team at a company or work for a managed service provider (MSP), a help desk ticketing tool is a must for providing solid tech support. These applications give IT staff and end ...

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SAIT Polytechnic in Alberta, Canada has switched to a unified help desk application for its academic and administrative departments to improve technical support across the campus. Previously, the ...

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