ChangeGear Enterprise - Service Desk Features
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Incident Management
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Streamline and automate the process of reporting, tracking, and managing service
requests.
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Problem Management
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Proactively identify root-cause to prevent future service disruptions. A Known Error
Database is available to store any known errors for future analysis.
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Change & Release Management
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Easily track, manage, and control all IT changes made to your IT environment using
the ITIL best practices framework.
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Web 2.0 .NET Architecture
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The intuitive Microsoft .NET web-interface makes it easy to use and simple to deploy.
Even non-technical staff can use ChangeGear with little to no training involved.
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Self-Service Portal
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Web-based end user portal provides employees a single point of access for reporting
and tracking service requests.
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Knowledge Base
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Enables employees to search a database to find solutions for temporary workarounds,
known errors, and FAQs.
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Business Policy Automation
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Business rules engine will monitor ChangeGear according to specific rules and conditionally
respond with the actions you specify. With the BPA, you can easily create new business
rules and set up IT process automation and notifications.
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Customizable Workflows
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The standard workflow is based on ITIL best practices, but the built-in workflow
editor allows you to customize the workflow to meet the needs of your organization.
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Notification & Alerts
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Automated alerts about impending changes and email templates can be tailored for
individual change notifications – ensuring the necessary personnel are notified
at each stage in the change lifecycle.
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Multi-level Approvals
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Requests for approval are automatically sent to the approvers based on pre-defined
conditions and progress within the workflow.
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Task Management
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Tasks associated with service request can be facilitated within the Change and Incident
ticket. This allows you to assign tasks, track time, measure success rates, and
calculate the dollar cost of IT services.
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Personalized Dashboard
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Performance dashboard displays real-time graphs, metrics, and KPIs – providing up-to-date
information about the change activities within your environment.
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Historical Audit-Tracking
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Change activity is tracked and documented for troubleshooting and meeting compliance
audit requirements. The historical audit-trail will tell you what actions were taken,
when the action was completed, who completed the action, and record any comments
provided.
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Real-time reporting
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Reporting is simple with ChangeGear. You can report on all aspects of IT change
activities using our pre-defined reports or the built-in ad-hoc reporting tool.
ChangeGear also integrates with Crystal Reports.
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Announcement Calendar
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Web-based calendar that enables you to create, schedule, automate, and track messages.
This tool allows you to proactively inform your users about important IT matters
and improve overall communication from the IT department.
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Mobile Access
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Perform various actions such as submit service requests, approve change tickets,
receive notifications, and escalate tickets on a mobile device. Use this tool to
quickly enter requests while performing on-site troubleshooting or to respond to
approval notifications.
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Web Services SDK
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Seamless integration allows you to change-enable your organization. ChangeGear can
easily integrate with an existing system monitoring, network management, or help
desk application.
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Module Editor
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Dynamic Request Automation
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Intelligent handling of requests that leverage the power of customized forms, advanced
workflows, notifications, and approvals.
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Forms Authoring
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Form authoring tools give you complete control of the layout, labels, what fields
are displayed on the ticket, actions, and workflows.
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Flex Module
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Custom Module Creation
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ChangeGear Flex Modules allow you to deploy new process oriented applications leveraging
the powerful capabilities and web-based user interface of the ChangeGear platform.
Partnering with our Professional Services team, you will be able to quickly deliver
process oriented applications across your organization, like project management,
purchasing, or HR new hire process, without writing code. This includes the ability
to modify and design forms, automate processes, create advanced workflows, and much
more.
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Understand the Benefits of ChangeGear
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Improve incident and problem resolution
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ChangeGear provides end users the opportunity to self serve using the Self-service
portal and built-in Knowledge Base. If an end user submits a service request, ChangeGear
accelerates incident and problem resolution by automatically assigning requests
based on priority and type, providing support staff easy access to pertinent user
information, and delivering intelligent information about impacted users and affected
business services.
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Increase IT service uptime
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Research shows that 80% of unplanned downtime is caused by unplanned change. This
makes the need for effective change management critical to maintaining system uptime
and ensuring regulatory compliance. ChangeGear helps organizations prevent costly
downtime by tracking and managing all change requests throughout their entire lifecycle,
ensuring that any change introduced into the IT infrastructure follows a pre-determined
set of procedures.
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Achieve regulatory compliance
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Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA, and other regulatory measures can present
serious challenges for today’s business. ChangeGear helps you with compliance by
establishing and enforcing repeatable processes, and providing you an audit trail
of historical data for easy reporting. With streamlined processes, you can apply
consistent policies governing everything from access rights to change authorizations
– making it simple to achieve compliance.
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Reduce operating costs
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Every day IT organizations are faced with the pressure to reduce costs while still
maintaining high quality of service and improving productivity. ChangeGear helps
you increase operational efficiency by allowing you to automate your IT processes,
leverage staff resources, increase incident response time and optimize your current
IT infrastructure. With a software that focuses on operational efficiency, your
organization can work smarter, increase productivity, and reduce costs.
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Simplify and automate IT processes
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It is essential to ensure IT processes are in place and that they are enforced.
Through IT process automation, ChangeGear can help you simplify historical documentation,
set up a dynamic notification structure, complete task and project management, and
implement your entire approval process. With ChangeGear, you can easily automate
and implement any part of an IT process.
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Enable system consolidation
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Siloed systems make it difficult to manage your IT environment and maintain the
integrity of valuable data. Because successful integration of all your systems is
essential, ChangeGear is designed with seamless integration in mind - allowing for
easy management and sharing of information. Not only are the ChangeGear products
seamlessly integrated, but it can also preserve your initial investment by integrating
with your existing help desk, asset management, system monitoring, and network management
software.
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Effectively Manage IT Services
Look Beyond ChangeGear’s Core Capabilities
Understand What Components Are Necessary To Run ChangeGear
Add Service Desk Analyst efficiency
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“ChangeGear’s Reporting service gives us the metrics we need to pinpoint what areas
to improve on as a department, in order to increase efficiency and save money. Another
way we increase efficiency is by utilizing the ChangeGear Self Service Portal –
our teammates are able to find valuable information from the Knowledge Base or open
a service ticket by themselves when the helpdesk is closed.”
Joshua Hopkins
Systems Administrator
Speedco Inc.
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“Our experience with ChangeGear has been excellent. The installation went smoothly
and the support staff has been very responsive to any issues we have encountered.
Prior to ChangeGear, we had separate systems for our incident, development and infrastructure
groups, this lead to lots of duplicated data and effort. Now we have a unified system
for all service requests and we‘ve streamlined our IT operations as a result.”
Steve Miller
System Administrator
Cirrus Design Corporation
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