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Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a...
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Customer experience is the most powerful tool available today for distinguishing your company from competitors ? each contact with the customer offers an opportunity for strengthening your relationships by delivering...
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As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing and burning is...
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If you aren't assessing customer satisfaction you are overlooking a potential goldmine. This valuable data is crucial to creating a successful IT strategy. But where do you start?
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Since its launch in 2001, Virtual IT's guiding principle has been, 'We'll look after your IT so you can look after
your business'. And in a relatively short time the company...
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This paper describes recommended physical reference architectures and platform sizing requirements for example small, medium, and large deployments of the BMC Service Support solution, including the BMC Atrium set of...
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Many IT organizations are turning to the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for guidance in getting the most value from IT service management processes. Process integration is one of the central...
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It's the same story every budgeting cycle. Budget dollars are limited, so need to invest every dollar wisely and need to justify every expense. With BMC Customer Support, one will...
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Liverpool John Moores University is a city-based university, with more than 27,000 students studying 200-plus courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The University needed a flexible and sophisticated service desk...
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BSM solutions have become an integral part of the IT infrastructure fabric. They are as critical to the business as the business services they support. Consequently, one needs to ensure...
A website that published a third-party patch to fix a security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has had to re-issue the patch after the original was found to be flawed. Openwares.org published the second patch on Saturday after the first was...
The Samba open-source software project has had its share of flaws since version 3.0 was published a year ago, including two vulnerabilities announced in July and another vulnerability reported in February.
The fix addresses the problem of programs failing if they request one gigabyte or more of information on a patched system. The vulnerability could let miscreants hijack a Windows PC running IE 6 with Service Pack 1 and the MS06-042 update installed...
He says: "The most important things that go in are the assumptions from heads of management about things like volumes or severity of house price falls. The report, published in a format called the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process, has...
The tribunal's decision comes after anti-ID card campaign group No2ID member, Mark Dziecielewski, won the right to have the reviews published after his Freedom of Information request to see the reports was upheld by the information commissioner in...
When IT executives were asked for their most "memorable" holiday-related IT request in a survey published this week, the research found that incompetence is alive and well and creating havoc for IT teams up and down the country, while everyone...