Maintaining Service Levels with APM in Virtualized and Cloud Environments

In this webcast, MetricNet will share the key success factors from the industry's top performing Service Desks. Attendees will:

HEAR how the industry's top performing Service Desks achieve world-class status.

LEARN key strategies for enhancing your Service Desk performance.

APPLY Best Practices from your peers in the industry.

In this webinar you will learn how Sopra Steria is implementing Avatars to improve the Customer Experience without having to replace the underlying Service Management platform.

20-35% of all calls to the service-desk are related to password problems. Usually the main issue is considered to be the cost for the IT-department. Our statistics however indicate that the user value of self-service is most important!

To help the HPE and VIVIT community to get started with the self-service technology, we will introduce the FREE service from FastPass Cloud for VIVIT members from 2000-30,000 users in line with the offer together with HPE for Service Anywhere customers.

Join this webinar and learn how you can improve user productivity from the FREE FastPass Cloud service. You will also see how you can get high user acceptance with the extended FastPass.

For customers not prepared to go with Cloud FastPass, it is also available on-premise.

Join us in this webinar to discuss latest HPE Service Manager and ITSM Automation Suite innovations and learn about what is coming with the next releases. Topics we will look at include:

New service portal for HPE Service Manager based on HPE Propel technology for a superior user experience
End user chat using virtual agent and Big Data technologies for improved customer satisfaction
Native email integration leveraging Big Data analytics to decrease ticket handling times further
New innovations to leverage Chat for IT Operations Management use cases such as the major incident process

Since IT is primarily “Knowledge Work” it’s critical we understand our productivity vs. the value we create. Time is the key factor in calculating productivity. It is also important to know what value-added vs. non-value activities consume our time.

Leading organizations are tapping into a new Lean IT measurement model to better understand how to measure throughput, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of ITSM services.

There are three common measurement constraints:
1. What to measure for value creation, alignment and operational excellence.
2. Interpreting results. Many lack the skills and methods required to analyze metrics data to support corrective or preventative action.
3. Getting/trusting data. Underlying data collections systems are not designed to support analytical methods required for management decision making and/or are not trustworthy.

This session is about how savvy IT managers are implementing a new Lean IT monitoring and metrics and ITSM.

In 45 minutes we’ll cover: 
What’s Lean all about
How Lean maximizes customer value by minimizing waste
Critical to quality measurement for ITSM
Value stream mapping technique
Lean ITSM value stream metrics
Interpreting result with examples of non-value activities (waste)
How to get trustworthy data
How to learn more
How to get started for no cost

How do you know you are on course?
How do you know your Agile is making things faster?
How do you know your ITSM is making things safer?
How do you know your lean is making things better?
How do you judge whether you are improving or getting feedback at the right time and for the right purpose?
How do you know feedback is being used?

DevOps is there is help guide you on WHY you want to use metrics that are key and what these metrics will help you change. DevOps challenges you you to use them wisely though and this in itself is a cultural shift. Metrics drives collaboration and communication. Learn more via this session on how Key Indicators of Performance can help your idea to realisation (development of an idea until it goes operational) lifecycle.

Monitoring tools have always been there. Other sources also provide useful information to calculate availability and performance of IT Services.
However, not always that data contributes to provide real insight of the health of IT Services and their impact in business.
This session presents new trends in the monitoring, aggregation and automation of service availability, service capacity and service level monitoring, aligned with ISO 20000 requirements and ITIL best practices.

In 45 minutes we’ll cover: 
- Service monitoring needs according to ITIL and ISO 20000
- ITSM vs BSM, aligning IT with the business
- Real-time, historical and predictive monitoring
- Different approaches to service monitoring
- New trends in service monitoring, dashboards and reports
- How to learn more
- Tips on how to get started

IT departments are constantly searching for new ways to optimize the speed, quality, and cost of their IT Service Management (ITSM) activities. Surprisingly, one solution that is often overlooked in the optimization process is the increased usage of a discovery tool within a configuration management system (CMS) to be the powerhouse for all ITSM, ITAM, operations analytics, and even network management processes.

This webinar will take a deep dive into the uses of discovery tools and how they can be greater leveraged into all facets of ITSM, ITAM, operations analytics, and network management processes for increased value creation.

Discovery Tools: Why they’re more relevant than ever
ITSM, ITAM, operations analytics, and network management use cases and functions enabled by an integrated Discovery Tool
Examples of successful integrated Discovery Tool usage across all IT processes
HPE Universal Discovery Tool and Applications

Cost vs. quality: It’s a perennial issue in technical service and support. Drive your costs too low, and you risk sacrificing the quality of service. Conversely, if you push quality too high (yes, that’s possible!), then you drive your costs through the roof. Understanding the cost/quality tradeoff is the most critical step toward optimizing your support model.

Using data from more than 300 benchmarks worldwide, Jeff Rumburg will illustrate how top-performing service and support organizations strike an appropriate balance between the cost of service delivery and the quality of support provided. He’ll share simple yet powerful techniques that will enable organizations to pinpoint their position on the cost vs. quality curve, determine if higher (or lower) quality is justified, reduce costs without sacrificing quality, and improve quality without increasing costs.

Finally, he’ll share an interactive scorecard that organizations can use to determine whether service and support has been optimized, and, if it hasn’t, to identify the tangible steps needed to achieve an optimized support model.

Almost everyone is undergoing digital transformation, but not everyone knows the right way to do it. In a recent MuleSoft survey, 96 percent of respondents are executing on digital transformation initiatives or planning to do so in the near future. However, the results also showed that just 18 percent of IT decision makers are confident that they will succeed in meeting this year’s digital transformation goals. To do this effectively, IT teams need different skill sets, tools, and more importantly, different mindsets. Join Bill Briggs, CTO at Deloitte, and Ross Mason, Founder and VP of Product Strategy at MuleSoft, to learn how IT can grow beyond “business as usual".

This presentation examines the role of IT Governance in Service Management. In particular it focuses on leveraging IT Governance around ITSM and ITIL including its importance, definitions, model, implementing highlights and critical success factors.

What’s the new digital business model used by leading organizations?

Leading organizations are tapping into a new IT model for extremely fast concept-to-cash or low time-to-market, andmuch lower operating and capital expenditures vs. being replaced by a startup or an App.

Imagine up to 200 times faster software deployment, 30 times increased deployment frequency, and 60 times higher change success rates. The data doesn’t lie.

Organizations such as Netflix, Spotify and Facebook are transforming IT by successfully implementing DevOps principles.

You don't have to be a hot internet company or a gigantic enterprise to be a DevOps leader.

Companies large and small, young and old, have magnificently made the transition and have the proof of success in their pockets.

This session is about how savvy IT managers are implementing a new digital business model to run IT like a business.

Join this live panel discussion with well-known names in ITSM such as Claire Agutter, Dave Van Herpen and Barclay Rae.

What is DevOps? Where did it come from? What do it and the broader Agile movement mean for the enterprise, and for IT service management? The good news is that from a customer perspective, DevOps is one of the best things to happen in years. The challenge is that DevOps has a radically different approach to process, risk management, and IT operating models. It is transforming our basic understanding of how IT work gets done, and even how it is defined.
Come and hear an experienced enterprise architect and ITSM professional talk about a variety of cases and examples illustrating just how fundamental the DevOps challenge is for ITSM. Key points:
-DevOps culture, practices, and automation
-The trend from “project” to “product” management and what this means
-The Kanban emphasis on limiting work in process and understanding IT demand in a unified way
As a bonus, attendees will receive a brief introduction to the free, open source project Calavera, a functioning DevOps toolchain in miniature using Vagrant, Chef, Jenkins, and other modern tools. Calavera can be easily installed as a virtual environment on a modern workstation or laptop for training and educational purposes.