Category : Help Desk

2 11, 2016

NITRO™ In-Depth: Reporting & Analytics

2023-07-13T13:24:33-07:00November 2nd, 2016|

How is your Service Desk performing? What are the bottlenecks? What can be improved? In our last blog article, Continual Service Improvement, we described how Reporting & Analytics, the “Third Pillar” of our NITRO™ application layer, can help you understand "where you're at, where you’ve been, and where you need to go" in terms [...]

26 10, 2016

Reporting & Analytics Drive Continual Service Improvement in Crow Canyon Applications

2023-07-13T13:23:43-07:00October 26th, 2016|

In a previous blog post, we discussed how workflows within Crow Canyon's NITRO™ system are used to move tickets and requests towards resolution. NITRO™-powered SharePoint and Office 365 applications from Crow Canyon put the workflow configuration into your hands. You can easily define and implement workflows that are relevant & meet your unique business [...]

21 09, 2016

NITRO™ In-Depth: UI/UX

2024-07-23T04:26:32-07:00September 21st, 2016|

Crow Canyon’s NITRO™ is a back-end technological layer that forms the foundation of our SharePoint and Office 365-integrated solutions. With our NITRO-powered applications, you no longer have to settle for run-of-the-mill, standardized SharePoint or Office 365 environments that do not meet your business needs. Instead, you can turn SharePoint and Office 365 into "Digital [...]

31 08, 2016

Choosing Resilience Over Reliability

2024-08-13T05:53:51-07:00August 31st, 2016|

In our Southwest’s Summer Screwup article, we wrote about how a router failure at Southwest Airlines resulted in at least $10 million in lost revenue and millions more in associated costs throughout the travel industry. While doing research for that article, we came across a presentation by Richard Cook, MD, who studied complex systems [...]

22 08, 2016

ITSM: Adding Structure When It’s Needed

2023-05-18T07:40:49-07:00August 22nd, 2016|

IT Service Management (ITSM) is all about helping organizations align their IT services with their business needs. It is an approach to IT Management that seeks to make the delivery of IT services efficient, process-driven, and proactive. Key ITSM concepts Increasing Efficiency in IT organizations The driving mission of ITSM is to increase efficiency. [...]

11 08, 2016

Et Tu, Delta?

2024-07-26T03:47:58-07:00August 11th, 2016|

This past week, an airline company with a reputation for punctuality, and with one of the best reliability records in the industry, was left dumbfounded as over 1,000 flights worldwide were grounded. No, we're not talking about Southwest Airlines. This time, it's Delta. Like Southwest, the cause is IT-related: a power control module failed. Also [...]

9 08, 2016

Southwest Airlines Favoring Profits over IT Infrastructure?

2024-08-14T00:45:14-07:00August 9th, 2016|

The four unions representing Southwest Airlines’ pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and ground operations are calling for new leadership at Southwest. All four unions, which represent nearly 80 percent of the airline’s 50,000 employees, voted “no confidence” in the airline’s CEO Gary Kelly and COO Mike Van de Ven. In a joint statement issued August 3, [...]

26 07, 2016

Southwest’s Summer Screwup

2024-07-26T04:00:10-07:00July 26th, 2016|

There we were in Oakland airport last Thursday, having dutifully arrived at 5 am for our 6 am Southwest Airlines flight to Salt Lake City. I had heard about the computer “glitch” that Southwest had the day before, and saw the long lines and bleary-eyed people when we arrived at the airport, but I [...]

7 07, 2016

Implementing a SharePoint-based Help Desk That Meets ITIL Service Desk Standards

2021-01-21T10:04:14-08:00July 7th, 2016|

In the late 1980s, the UK government decided to tackle the need for standardization in the burgeoning IT industry. Over time, this set of standards coalesced into a program called IT Service Management (ITSM) and, within that program, a specific subset of practices evolved that is now referred to as ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure [...]

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