Every 4 years, the World Cup poses the same challenge to companies and organizations: how to balance the interest in the most important event of the year with the needs of work itself? During Russia 2018, the World Cup entered the offices with the proliferation of streaming services, allowing everyone to access the matches anywhere, either from their mobile devices or work computers.

2022 was a great year for InvGate, both from a business and product perspective. And regarding the latter – which is the one that concerns me – we expanded our teams, enhanced the capabilities of and , and laid the groundwork for an even more promising 2023. All without losing sight of the company’s core values.

It’s common for IT support teams to have one subject matter expert, that one agent that can solve any problem without help or setback. But no matter how tempting it might be to solely trust in their expertise, the “knowledge hero” is not the smartest strategy for your team, and you can offset it quite easily by having an internal knowledge base. The tricky part of relying on subject matter experts is that you don’t have a plan B for when they’re unavailable.

The concept (if not yet the realization) of a single view into the enterprise has existed for some time. In the realm of ITSM, thought-leaders at AXELOS envisioned how systems across an enterprise can integrate to provide comprehensive visibility into virtually all data that touches any part of the Customer Journey.

Ticket escalation is essential to ticket management and the ticket process flow. In a nutshell, it's a way to provide quick responses to tickets and keep up with your SLAs – which is crucial if we consider that speed is the number one factor that impacts end-user happiness with IT incident resolutions. Therefore, escalation is a way to provide the best possible service for users and customers when requests are reassigned to specialized help desk agents.

Human Resources automation takes various forms, and one of them is automated employee onboarding. It makes sense: the onboarding process is a key element in the lifecycle of any employee, and in fact, 93% of new hires assure that their onboarding process would determine whether they would stay at the company. The onboarding process is the first time a new employee gets a feel for your organization, brand, and work culture. So, it's something that companies should not take lightly.

So we have looked at what ITSM is and the best practice frameworks available to support the implementation of ITSM tools within an IT team. Equally important is how these concepts, processes, and frameworks can support teams outside IT, from HR, Finance, Facilities, and Customer Service, and for internal and external end customers.

Employees leaving their jobs is a common problem across industries, but it’s a major one in IT. However, there’s hope – at least for agent churn rates. A Skillsoft survey raised concern: 53% of IT professionals are considering leaving their current employers due to a decline in job satisfaction rates from 2021 to 2022. To face this situation, managers and C-levels all over the world are starting to look at employee experience with so much more detail than in previous years.

As we head into the fourth and final quarter of 2022, we would like to take the opportunity to provide you with an overview of some of the key new features that were recently released during the third quarter of 2022. As an organisation, we would like to thank all of those who have provided feedback and suggestions for new features. We have and continue to take into account our clients ideas, in addition to our pool of thoughts internally.