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.

Whether or not you subscribe to the butterfly effect, the idea holds true for IT operations. Even the tiniest of initial changes can determine the path of your IT ticket. So, tread carefully. Without ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salt Lake City-based LANDesk said it licensed tools from Touchpaper, a U.K.-based provider of IT business management solutions, to create the LANDesk Service Center. The addition of a service desk ...

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 ...