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Integrating Microsoft Teams with your Help Desk: How to Do It, and Why It's a Good Idea

Same as with an email ticketing system, integrating Microsoft Teams with your help desk is a way to use an established communication channel in your organization to your advantage. If your company has this software as part of its tech stack, your Support Team must be already receiving requests and issues through there. The thing is that, if left unattended, it becomes an informal communication channel.

HR Automation: Benefits, Challenges, and Examples

Human Resources is responsible for a variety of functions within an organization, from hiring and onboarding to benefits and payroll. And, as also happens with IT, there are several repetitive tasks within those responsibilities. That's why companies are leaning more and more into HR automation to put their teams' time to better use. This is nothing more than to use technology to streamline HR processes and improve efficiency. To do so, there is multiple HR automation software out there.

5 Practical Benefits to Enterprise Workflow Automation

Enterprise workflow automation can streamline processes across teams and departments in your organization, resulting in improved efficiency and cost savings. ‍ If you are feeling bogged down by tedious and repetitive tasks that distract you away from more meaningful, high-value tasks, then it is time to consider implementing an enterprise workflow automation solution.

The World Cup in the home office era: how will it impact productivity?

Every 4 years, the World Cup poses the same challenge to companies and organizations: how to balance the interest in the most important event of the year with the needs of work itself? During Russia 2018, the World Cup entered the offices with the proliferation of streaming services, allowing everyone to access the matches anywhere, either from their mobile devices or work computers.

What Does 2023 Look Like for InvGate Service Desk and Insight?

2022 was a great year for InvGate, both from a business and product perspective. And regarding the latter – which is the one that concerns me – we expanded our teams, enhanced the capabilities of and , and laid the groundwork for an even more promising 2023. All without losing sight of the company’s core values.

How to Improve your Agents' Performance with an Internal Knowledge Base

It’s common for IT support teams to have one subject matter expert, that one agent that can solve any problem without help or setback. But no matter how tempting it might be to solely trust in their expertise, the “knowledge hero” is not the smartest strategy for your team, and you can offset it quite easily by having an internal knowledge base. The tricky part of relying on subject matter experts is that you don’t have a plan B for when they’re unavailable.

ITSM Integration: Alignment of Services & Applications

The concept (if not yet the realization) of a single view into the enterprise has existed for some time. In the realm of ITSM, thought-leaders at AXELOS envisioned how systems across an enterprise can integrate to provide comprehensive visibility into virtually all data that touches any part of the Customer Journey.

5 Ways to Do Ticket Escalation and Improve your Help Desk Efficiency

Ticket escalation is essential to ticket management and the ticket process flow. In a nutshell, it's a way to provide quick responses to tickets and keep up with your SLAs – which is crucial if we consider that speed is the number one factor that impacts end-user happiness with IT incident resolutions. Therefore, escalation is a way to provide the best possible service for users and customers when requests are reassigned to specialized help desk agents.

Automated Employee Onboarding: What, Why, and How

Human Resources automation takes various forms, and one of them is automated employee onboarding. It makes sense: the onboarding process is a key element in the lifecycle of any employee, and in fact, 93% of new hires assure that their onboarding process would determine whether they would stay at the company. The onboarding process is the first time a new employee gets a feel for your organization, brand, and work culture. So, it's something that companies should not take lightly.