Numara FootPrints 9 Overview: Practical and Flexible IT Service Management for the Real World
Delivering effective service with increasing business demands and shrinking budgets is a daunting task, but it can be done. This webinar will show you why Numara® FootPrints® 9, a highly flexible and practical service desk solution, is the best value in the service desk market today. Numara FootPrints 9 will help you manage service delivery, reduce support costs and run support as a business. Discover the unparalleled flexibility of Numara FootPrints 9 for the service desk, as well as the unique process automation capabilities for the service desk and beyond IT. You’ll also learn about the fast-to-implement ITIL® service lifecycle workflow automation capabilities in Numara FootPrints 9. Ensuring a quick return on your investment, Numara FootPrints offers a very short time to production and easy customization – all without any programming. Attend this webinar and you’ll get an overview on how to:
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Centralize and automate numerous support processes successfully with this well-established and extremely adaptive solution
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Provide customer problem resolution 24/7
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Improve service quality and delivery with extensive workflow automation
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Report on productivity and trends in real-time with dashboards, reports and metrics
What’s New in Numara FootPrints 9: Enhancing the Customer Experience
Designed for Numara® FootPrints® customers, this webinar will show you how to stay at the leading edge of IT and support trends, and expand your service management processes with the new additions and enhancements in this major release. You’ll learn about new practical, rapid ITIL® V3 enablement for the vital processes that support your customer demands, including a new service catalog solution and enhancements to change and configuration management modules. You’ll also discover how you can use new and expanded capabilities such as extensive usability enhancements, powerful mobile technology, knowledge-centered support, and new preventive maintenance capabilities to help you deliver a world-class customer experience and improve agent effectiveness. This new release further demonstrates Numara® Software’s continued focus on optimizing the customer experience and delivering the best value to its customers. Attend this webinar to learn about:
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Which ITIL V3 service lifecycle processes Numara FootPrints supports and how easily and quickly you can create workflow automation rules - without any programming or database administration
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How knowledge-centered support means more robust knowledge management for your agents and your users
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Which new modules are right for you
Improve Customer Satisfaction and Streamline Operations with Numara FootPrints for Customer Service
Your customers expect instant access to service around the clock and quick resolutions to their problems. Your challenge is how to meet and exceed their expectations in a highly competitive environment without increasing headcount, hours of operation or operational cost. With Numara FootPrints for Customer Service, an award-winning, 100% web-based customer service management solution, you can deliver breakthrough service to customers throughout the world faster, and enhance the quality of your web-based service desk, with less effort than today, and at a low total cost of ownership.
Numara FootPrints for Customer Service can provide you and your customers an effective solution for requesting and tracking service requests of any kind. With its easily configurable customer portal, robust workflow and knowledge base, you can quickly and easily improve your service response, ensure service level agreement compliance, and streamline customer communications. The uniquely flexible, multi-project architecture of Numara FootPrints for Customer Service also allows you to offer each customer a unique experience tailored to their specific needs, each with a different look and feel, workflow, security and even languages.
In this webinar you will learn how Numara FootPrints for Customer Service can:
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Increase customer satisfaction by providing multiple options to submit and track their own requests
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Empower your customers with the ability to solve their own issues through easy-to-use self service on-line knowledge bases, 24/7
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Centralize and manage all customer issues from phone, e-mail, web, chat, and wireless devices
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Accelerate problem resolution with highly configurable and comprehensive rules-based workflow and escalations
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Manage all requests with optimal effectiveness while ensuring compliance with customer service level agreements (SLAs)
Configuration Management: Creating a functional CMDB is achievable in your lifetime
Knowing what hardware, software and other configuration items exist in your environment and how they relate to each other is the basis of your ability to maintain control, increase service quality and reduce costs. But this is not a simple task and can take months, even years to accomplish.
In this informative webinar, you will learn about the challenges of implementing configuration management along with suggestions on how to get started, and best practices to ensure success. You will also learn how Numara® FootPrints® Configuration Management, with its fast implementation, practical approach to implementing configuration management and automated integration to auto-discovery tools, takes the pain and time out of creating and maintaining a functional CMDB. You will learn how to
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Relate incidents and problems to the affected hardware and software
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Visualize the relationships among your IT assets and predict how changes will impact your users and your business processes
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Effortlessly build a CMDB without programming, using wizard-based templates and secure web based administration
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Protect your prior investment by importing your existing information easily into the Numara FootPrints CMDB
Change Management: Reduce the Chaos by Taking Control
Change happens in all aspects of a business and if managed poorly can wreak havoc costing your business time and money. The goal of change management is to minimize the impact of changes on service quality and availability. Having well defined change management processes and automation will help reduce the number of incidents that occur from unforeseen disruptions and greatly reduce the support burden required due to unmanaged change.
This webinar will discuss the challenges in designing a workable change management process, defining approval workflows, and conforming to IT governances such as Sarbanes-Oxley and SAS70. This webinar will also show you how quickly Numara FootPrints Change Management can help you effectively and easily manage change, ensure compliance in IT, as well as other functional areas of your business.
Numara FootPrints Service Catalog: The Friendly Face of IT
Designing a world class service organization begins with aligning your service offerings with your business requirements and giving your customers an easy-to-use and understandable interface. You’ll be able to provide a one-stop-shop service request experience for all of the services you offer, because the Numara® FootPrints® Service Catalog brings IT out of the back-office maze and onto virtually every customer’s desktop. This webinar and service catalog demo will show you how Numara FootPrints Service Catalog will help your organization quickly provide an attractive menu of services tailored to your customers while providing transparency of service costs – all integrated into your service management workflow. Attend this webinar to learn about:
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Improving customer satisfaction by offering your customers a service catalog that makes accessing and requesting services easier and faster
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Streamlining the service request process for your internal and external customers – the heart of ITIL® V3
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Operating your IT or support organization as a business so you can gather business intelligence on which services are actually being requested and used by your customers
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Managing your service offerings with tight integration with Numara FootPrints Configuration Management and Numara FootPrints Change Management
Numara FootPrints Mobile: Service Desk On-the-Go
Delivering world class customer service in today’s fast paced business environment is becoming more difficult as information and data requires instant access. Numara® FootPrint® Mobile helps you achieve the service level agreements (SLAs) you promise your customers by providing your agents total mobility with smartphone access to Numara FootPrints, as well as off-line synchronization of critical data for field access. This webinar will show you how Numara FootPrints Mobile brings the service desk down to your mobile device with the information that you need, when you need it, 24/7. All of this can be done in the palm of your hand through a user-friendly layout optimized specifically for PDA/smartphones. Attend this webinar and you’ll learn how to:
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View a complete up-to-date list of individual assignments and all assignments in any project
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Create, edit or close incidents
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Add detailed notes in the description field
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Approve or deny change requests
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Select from a list of Quick Issue templates to simplify data entry
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Perform title and keyword searches to locate related issues or account history
Numara Track-It! to Numara FootPrints: Moving from the Help Desk to the Service Desk
Is it time to take your help desk automation to the next level with a more comprehensive service desk system? Delivering effective service and support across the business can be difficult when your requirements are expanding and becoming more complex. Your organization may become more efficient and improve problem resolution when you automate more service desk processes. Numara® FootPrints® 9 will help you manage service delivery, reduce support costs and run support as a business. This webinar will show you why Numara FootPrints 9, a highly flexible and practical service desk solution, can take you from help desk to service desk and bring services alignment to the business, all in an easy-to-use, fast-to-implement package. Attend this webinar and you’ll get an overview on how:
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the help desk can mature into the service desk
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improve service quality and delivery with extensive workflow automation
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successfully centralize and automate numerous support processes with this well-established and extremely adaptive solution