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    Help Desk – Knowledge Management

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    by thomasom ·

    I am an IT Help Desk Supervisor. I have been tasked with improving time to resolution for Help Desk calls. The knowledge to assist in problem resolution is located in hard copy, vendor cd, internet help site, etc.
    1) Can anyone identify a resource(s) which will assist in defining a process to improve access to the troubleshooting information available to HD analysts.
    2) Is there a Forum member who is working on a similar project and who is willing to share what they have learned?

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    • #2474127

      I can point you to tools and standards.

      by jmgarvin ·

      In reply to Help Desk – Knowledge Management

      Standards:
      A) ITIL: FTW, seriously. ITIL will explain how your processes *SHOULD* work. Incident and Problem will most likely be your focus. Maybe a little Inventory Mgmt and Configuration Mgmt stuff too.

      B) BPML/BPMN: Diagram those processes out.

      Tools:
      A) My company, FrontRange (www.frontrange.com, sells a product called HEAT for service desks and a product called ITSM that is ITIL centered.

      B) You can also look at Remedy (www.numarasoftware.com) and Magic (www.kace.com). As far as I know Magic is not ITIL, but Remedy can be. However, Remedy is very expensive. Magic is the cheapest of the bunch, but not very configurable.

      Good luck in your search!

    • #2472963

      Thank you to all posters

      by thomasom ·

      In reply to Help Desk – Knowledge Management

      The project has been put on hold. However, I thank all of you who responded with some helpful info and suggestions.

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