Cloud-based IT Service Management pioneer, Service-now.com is holding their annual user conference titled “Knowledge” at San Diego on April 18 – 22, 2010 at the Omni San Diego Hotel. The 4th annual conference of the SaaS player will officially start on April 20, with pre-conference sessions happening on the days before. The agenda has not been fixed yet and the call for papers is on.
Last year’s user conference was attended by 300 people, most of them being customers and partners from the Service-now eco-system.
User conferences are a good thing. It …

What would happen if our regular help desk integrated with social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google Docs, etc. Would it be possible? Will it be useful? Will it increase the load on the help desk or reduce it? Will it help the end user or hamper him?
ITIL itself defines the help desk as a “single point of contact”. Social networking talks about collaboration – multiple points of contact. Aren’t they really paradoxical?
Let’s look at how organizations function. They have multiple end users, an IT department with a support team  …

So finally one of the Big 4 – BMC Software has taken their service desk offering to the cloud. BMC Software announced this strategic alliance at Dreamforce 2009, Salesforce.com’s premier cloud-computing event. This new alliance will help BMC put its IT management solutions on the Force.com platform.
Not Remedy
BMC is planning to put the Service Desk Express application on Force.com and will deliver cloud-enabled service desk, self-service and inventory management capabilities.
BMC mentioned that it is currently scheduled to be available in the second quarter of calendar year 2010. This is interesting …

Survey responses collected from ITSM professionals visiting the InteQ booth at the itSMF Fusion 2009 Conference indicate ‘ease of adoption’ as their most important factor when choosing a service desk solutions provider

BEDFORD, MA, November 17, 2009 – InteQ, a leading provider of SaaS and On Demand IT Service Management solutions, has released the survey results of a study conducted at the itSMF Fusion Conference in Dallas last month which polled visitors to their booth on the most important factor when considering a service desk application. Nearly 82% of …

Combination of Modern SaaS and PinkVERIFY Designation Provides Customers With Unrivaled ITSM Tool Purchasing Confidence
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – July 16, 2009) – Service-now.com, the pioneer of modern SaaS for IT service automation, today announced the achievement of PinkVERIFY status for support of eleven IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes. The designation is only applied to IT service management (ITSM) tools objectively assessed by Pink Elephant as meeting the functional requirements for ITIL compatibility.
“Service-now.com has shown a commitment to IT best practice with the PinkVERIFY certification,” said David Ratcliffe, President of …

InfraDesk, InteQ’s On Demand Service Desk, was recognized with ‘Best New Product – Software-as-a-Service’ Stevie Award from the 2009 American Business Awards for its innovative approach to deliver IT Service Management through a SaaS model

We are honored to earn this recognition for InfraDesk which we developed to enable IT organizations to adopt a full-featured service desk application without the high costs and complexity associated with on-premise enterprise applications

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When talking about the advantages of the SaaS Service Desk, vendors often (appropriately) focus on Return on Investment, through the elimination of the infrastructure and maintenance costs associated with the service desk.  However, this neglects one of the most powerful selling points of the SaaS approach when applied to the Service Desk; specifically that it supports our mobile, distributed workforce much more effectively than the traditional approach.
First, let’s understand when we’re talking about the Mobile Workforce, we’re really talking about two different …

On-demand software is becoming more popular these days with the growth of broadband and faster computing. Services like Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Flickr and Facebook have become part of our every day lives. People don’t write diaries anymore, they blog. They don’t create albums anymore, they post pictures online.
That has happened in the corporate space too, where native applications have moved to the cloud. This solves a lot of problems for the organization or business.

They don’t have to install/maintain hardware for serving those applications.
They don’t have to spend on …