Case Study from Ashton Park School

Case Study from Ashton Park School

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  Comprehensive IT SolutionFor Ashton Park case study ServiceDesk plus “ We chose ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus after an extensive 3 months research. It is a comprehensive ServiceDesk that helped our IT department to e ciently manage problems,purchases, and assets.ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is a ordable and easy to use, what more do you need? ” –Ross Hamilton,ICT Technician e Challenge: Managing a Growing IT environment Challenge Ashton Park School is one of the 141 schools in Bristol, UK, to be declared as a Specialist Sports Ashton Park School is a College. Its IT environment was earlier handled by Microsoft Outlook task system for request Specialist Sports College handling and used Microsoft Access based application to track IT assets. All user requests were located in Bristol, UK. Its growing IT environment was tracked using Microsoft Outlook and tasks were created accordingly. e support sta had to query earlier handled by Microsoft the Microsoft access database to get information about the user’s workstation. Even a simple Outlook task system to andle requirement to nd all requests from a particular workstation was complex with the Microsoft user requests and Microsoft Access database based system. is setup lacked basic requirements such as automatic assignment, Access based application to track assets. is setup was automatic noti cations, and reporting. is drastically increased the request response time and failing to meet the reduced the quality of service. IT Department wanted an e cient and a ordable Help Desk to requirements of the IT manage user requests, assets, and purchase to simplify support and increase end user satisfaction. Support Sta . Ashton Park School’s Help Desk Sta Ross Hamilton, ICT Technician at Ashton Park School was determined to change the were looking for an e cient situation. He wanted to implement a fast and responsive Help Desk to manage requests from the proactive Help desk solution users, to keep track of the complete history of all the workstations in the network, to handle at an a ordable price. purchasing, and to track and manage all the inventory items. He evaluated 6 competing Help Desk Solutions for around 3 months and nally chose the right Help Desk Solution to manage the situation at an a ordable cost. database based system. is setup lacked basic requirements such as Solution automatic assignment, automatic noti cations, and reporting. is drastically increased the request Ashton Park School response time and reduced the quality of service. IT Department wanted an e cient and a ordable researched and evaluated 6 Help Desk to manage user requests, assets, and purchase to simplify support and increase competing products extensively for 3 months and e Solution: ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus nally chose ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. ServiceDesk Plus helped Ashton Park School’s Help Desk Sta to introduce a self-service portal considerably reduced level 1 request from users. Unresolved level 1 and advanced requests were ServiceDesk Plus enabled the automatically categorized and automatic noti cations were sent to the associated technicians. Servi- Help Desk sta to e ciently manage user requests, ceDesk Plus reduced mundane request dispatching and assigning jobs, helping technicians to get manage Assets and started immediately and work towards resolving the request. Unlike the earlier system, wherever a streamline Purchases at request came in, technicians were able to get complete details about the workstation and associated a ordable cost. assets. Further technicians were also dive deep into the problem by analyzing the workstation history. e integrated Asset Management helped the IT support sta to use the domain scan to identify and manage workstations.
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  e scan gavea clear picture of all the hardware and software inventory items available in the network. Based on the number of license procured, ServiceDesk Plus enabled the help desk sta to assign licenses to workstation and also provided a snapshot of licensed and unlicensed installations. is helped technicians to take remedial action to comply with software and hardware audits. e Help Desk sta were able to associate contracts with assets, and manage contracts easily. Reminders before contract expiry saved a lot of searching across all contracts. ServiceDesk Plus enabled the Help Desk Sta to have ne-grained tracking and control over every inventory item. For example, Ross was able to track the total number printer cartridges purchased, number of printer cartridges used by di erent departments on a regular basis, this general trend analy- sis helped the purchasing department to plan and provision for future purchases. Today Ashton Park School uses a new purchasing system to send purchase orders to di erent vendors. It was now able to “We evaluated up to 6 manage di erent purchase orders, agreements, and terms and condition from multiple hardware and other help desk solu- software vendors. ServiceDesk Plus helped Ashton Park School with a comprehensive IT Help Desk tions before choosing Solution to manage Incidents, Assets, and purchases at a ordable cost. ServiceDesk Plus, all the other solutions About ServiceDesk Plus were way to expensive ServiceDesk Plus is web-based helpdesk software that helps you manage all your communications or required additional from a single point. It o ers an integrated Request management (Trouble Ticketing), Asset manage- hardware. ” ment, Purchase order management, Contract Management, Self-Service Portal, and Knowledge Base. ServiceDesk Plus packs all the modules at an a ordable price. About ManageEngine ManageEngine o ers simple, easy-to-use IT and Facilities Management products at a price that every business can a ord. It is thoughtfully built with SMBs in mind and eventually scales for large businesses. e ManageEngine 90-10 promise gets you 90% of the features of the Big 4 at 10% of the price. www.manageengine.com www.servicedeskplus.com