What happened? A couple of weeks ago our partner Rok Ponikvar from S&T contacted me about an issue one of his customers faced. His customer complained that Enterprise Alert is not alerting on current issues and even if he creates a test ticket in his OBM system no alert goes out. After a little back
Many ITOM or ITSM tools come with built-in features for alerting and notifications and are able to send at least an email or text notification upon incidents to operations teams. But is this enough reliability to respond to and handle major and critical incidents? Recently, we have been surprised to see more and more monitoring
Empowering the Remote User with Enterprise Alert’s Mobile App 2020 has certainly presented all of us with its fair share of challenges. Small businesses and large organizations alike have been forced to change policies and procedures to adapt to the concept of ‘the remote worker’. As more and more employees are working from home, it
Why tracking of Enterprise Alert user profiles? As an administrator, you want to enable your users and not restrict them wherever possible. But this means you will have to keep track of your users. In the end, you are responsible if some critical alert is not properly escalated. But not just Users interfere with the
We are going through an incredibly difficult time of uncertainty, lockdowns, cutbacks, and even fear. Taking this time to optimize and rethink the way we do business is essential in ensuring we get back on track and return even stronger than before. Most of us have been working from home for months now and, in
How we can support you We’ve already heard from a couple of customers that continuous operation of critical IT is a ‘must’ in our turbulent times. Not only to facilitate remote work and home office for an unprecedented number of workers but also to keep critical IT infrastructure going. Our customers attest that Enterprise Alert
In a survey conducted at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida, Derdack investigated the state of IT alerting solutions among businesses. The survey is based on 368 participants, randomly selected among IT professionals visiting the expo showfloor. The survey revealed if and if yes, which IT alerting solutions (ITSA / “IT Service Alerting”) businesses use to
The pressure on IT budgets, lack of skilled workforce and the need to deliver IT on time and to guarantee its availability requires an increasing level of automation of processes and practices. Hence, the pace of IT automation is accelerating and promises to reduce risk, costs and to improve operational excellence. Generally, IT automation requires
It’s a question that comes up almost every time we do a trade show, “Do you guys offer RBAC?” Why yes, yes we do. We understand the importance of the need to control who can do what in critical applications, and we do consider Enterprise Alert a critical application in your infrastructure. So Role Based
One of the core functions of Enterprise Alert is providing for the management of on-call schedules for teams. With Enterprise Alert managing these schedules, it allows for near instantaneous look-up of a team’s on-call schedule. This in turn allows for automated escalation to follow on personnel and quick and easy re-iteration of notification cycles. It