Experience management is a hot IT service management (ITSM) trend, bringing with it experience level agreements (XLAs). However, if you’ve tried to find an agreed-upon definition of what an XLA is online, you’ll find that there isn’t one. Besides, as with service level agreements (SLAs) and service-level metrics or targets, the term XLA can also have multiple meanings. To help, this blog sheds some light on what XLAs are and how best to approach them.

In 2023, the success of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools accelerated the IT service management (ITSM) and wider business interest in AI. Consequently, it’s hard to talk or read about ITSM these days without mentioning AI and how it will revolutionise organisations’ IT service delivery and support capabilities.

The second half of 2023 has ushered in a wave of innovative features, updates and integrations which promise to enhance your experience with HaloITSM. We’re excited to share our handpicked favourites from Q3 and Q4, featuring significant advancements in AI capabilities, project management, and the ever-evolving chat bot. At HaloITSM, we understand the role of feedback and suggestions from our dedicated customers.

It’s another new year and potentially a new IT service management (ITSM) budget for many. But what ITSM trends should your IT organisation be focusing on? The quick answer is “those that will help improve what matters most to employees and business outcomes”. However, this isn’t really what you came to this blog to read about. So, to help, here are some of the top ITSM trends that might apply to your IT organisation in 2024 and my thoughts on some of them.

Much of what IT service desks “do” in terms of IT support has been industry best practice for decades. For example, the tier-based approach to ticket handling – where a ticket starts with Level 1 support staff before progressing to Level 2 and potentially Levels 3 and 4 when an immediate fix isn’t available. Your organisation might still be using this approach. After all, it has long worked well in reducing fix times and delivering better employee experiences.

There’s a lot of interest in the opportunity of artificial intelligence (AI) for IT service management (ITSM), especially with the media hype caused by ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. This is not only influencing ITSM tool product development, it’s also had an impact on “marketing machines” and the terms employed to help sell products and services.

ITIL, the service management and IT service management (ITSM) body of guidance formerly known as the IT Infrastructure Library, is built on the premise of IT managed as a service. Or, more specifically, IT service delivery and support.

Halo hosted its inaugural Orbit conference, welcoming 150 partners at the McLaren Technology Centre – an exclusive privilege thanks to our Official Technology Partners at McLaren Racing. In the spirit of transparency, CEO Paul Hamilton guided partners through our philosophy, major company updates, stats and financial figures, paving the way for a deep dive of HaloITSM, while HaloPSA and HaloCRM showed how we are revolutionising the service delivery of MSPs and customer service respectively.

Unless you’ve been “living under a rock” for the last few years, you should have seen the increased focus of IT service management (ITSM) and particularly the IT service desk on employee experience. At the start of 2022, Axelos research data found that “Two-thirds of survey respondents (67%) stated that their organisations understand the need to deliver a better employee experience, with another 18% expecting them to during 2022.

Incident management can mean many things, depending on your work. For example, it can describe an organisation’s activities to identify, analyse, and correct hazards. In many ways, this definition’s identification, analysis, and correction element is valid for most incident management use cases, whatever the description of “incident”.