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BPMN & service management

14 February 2016 by Robert Falkowitz 9 Comments

BPMN: a step toward automation I have argued elsewhere that the typical service management tools in use today might be suitable for service desk agents, but are annoying, redundant and of little value to anyone else involved in resolving incidents, among other activities. I have further proposed that existing IT management should be leveraged to […]

Filed Under: Incident Management, processes Tagged With: automation, BPMN, BPMN notation, conditional event, error event, Incident Management, kanban, lean process, OMG, process, process automation, process document, service management tools

Types of Tool Automation

13 October 2013 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

Types of tool automation The fundamental difference between a software tool and most types of tools is that software can be programmed to automate one or more tasks. Most other tools do not automate work at all, only extending the capabilities of the wielder of the tool. Certain mechanical tools can automate a task, but, […]

Filed Under: Automation, Availability management, Change management, Incident Management, Risk management, Service level management, Service Management Tools, Tools Tagged With: automation, change management, Incident Management, incident management tools, Service Management, service management tools

On the architecture of IT service management tools

17 November 2012 by Robert Falkowitz 3 Comments

New IT service management tool architecture

A common issue when implementing ITSM tools Often, while working on projects to implement a new IT service management tool, I have encountered the following remarks from one or more IT engineers. “Why are we implementing that new tool? Our team already has tools to do that.” To do what? Well, to manage the investigation, […]

Filed Under: Service Management Tools Tagged With: application architecture, incident, Incident Management, incident management tools, ITIL, ITSM, Service Management, service management architecture, service management tools

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