How to Prevent Knowledge Loss Caused by the Great Resignation
The Great Resignation is expected to continue for the better part of 2022, and it has already affected businesses in many ways. From low productivity to poor morale, the impact is quite severe. However, nothing is more serious than the knowledge loss that resulted from it. In this blog, we'll explore the impact of knowledge loss from an IT perspective and how you can overcome it with smart documentation.
IT Asset Tracking: Streamline Your Asset Information to Make Smart Decisions
The volume of IT assets owned by businesses is higher than ever before. When you also factor in the complexity of managing mobile devices, cloud-based solutions, software licenses and more, and the fact that IT assets are increasingly spread across different locations in this new age of remote and hybrid work, it's no wonder businesses all over the world have witnessed asignificant rise in security risks. However, there is a way to meet this challenge head-on. IT asset tracking can help you better manage your technology assets and ensure better efficiency and security. Manually documenting all your IT assets in today’s highly digitized world is a cumbersome, time-consuming and error-prone task. You can overcome these limitations with an IT asset tracking solution that actively monitors and automates all aspects of asset management. Let’s explore the different aspects of IT asset tracking and how it boosts security, enhances efficiency and eliminates waste in your organization.
Identity and Access Management: Take Control of Your User Access With IAM
Security threats are constantly evolving in today’s IT world. In times like this, providing the right level of access to all users is not an easy task,with organizations dealing with this issue almost every day. Also, new threats pop up every day with workforces scattered across numerous locations. To mitigate security threats and boost operational efficiency, organizations need to incorporate solutions that can control user access to critical information. This can be achieved with an identity and access management system. The 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon estimated that 85% of all data breaches involved a human element. Without the right controls in place, organizations cannot track which internal users have access to its resources. In this blog, we'll explore the different aspects of identity and access management and how you can maximize security within your organization.
Ensuring Data Integrity: Auto-Sync Microsoft 365 Contacts From IT Glue to BMS
The MSP industry is in its "Big Data" era. Huge volumes of data are being generated every day that need to be accessed regularly to enable timely decision making. That's why data integrity is absolutely crucial. To maintain this integrity, you must ensure the accuracy, completeness and consistency of data across all your key tools on a day-to-day basis. Most importantly, however, you should be able to see the same data regardless of whether you are working in your PSA or IT documentation system. With our latest update, your Microsoft Office 365 contacts in IT Glue can be automatically pushed and synced into BMS. Let’s explore its advantages in detail.
Confluence Alternatives: Top 10 Solutions for Team Collaboration
Ever since the onset of the pandemic, collaboration has become the new buzzword in the corporate world. Storing and sharing knowledge efficiently throughout an organization has become the need of the hour. There are multiple versatile tools available online to help you with collaboration management, and Confluence is one of them. In today’s digital world, the business needs of organizations are constantly evolving, and they vary significantly from one to another. There is an alternative to every software tool, and Confluence is no exception. In this blog, we'll explore different Confluence alternatives available for collaboration management and how they fit the bill when it comes to matching your unique requirements.
IT Glue Product Update – 2022 Q1
If the pandemic has taught us anything in the last two years, it is the need to be proactive and tackle new challenges as they come along. The year 2021 taught us many great lessons, most of which stressed the importance of upgrading our processes and toolboxes to manage all kinds of unknown threats and issues. At IT Glue, we are committed to bringing our users new features and updates based on market trends and customer feedback. When it comes to innovative, secure and reliable documentation solutions, we’ve got your back. Let’s check out some of the key IT Glue feature releases and enhancements we made in 2021 that can help you kickstart 2022 with a bang.
Feature Release: Network Glue Unmatched Device Notification and Switch Port Enhancement
Network Glue has evolved into more than just a network diagramming solution. It can help you gain comprehensive visibility into your network with features like automatic discovery, documentation, diagramming and more. IT Glue can ensure secure and quickly accessible documentation, and Network Glue can automate all your network information. Having Network Glue data automated right into IT Glue will enhance your ability to centralize the network information you need to do your work efficiently. In this blog, we’ll explore some Network Glue feature updates that can make network documentation simpler and more efficient.
CMDB: All About Configuration Management in Your IT Environment
The need for information to be streamlined is extremely high — now more than ever. This can be attributed to the increasing complexity of IT infrastructures in this new digital age. Having a proper library framework in your IT infrastructure provides better visibility into organizational assets and helps make timely decisions. A configuration management database, or CMDB, is a critical component of the IT infrastructure framework. In this blog, we'll explore the different aspects of CMDB and how it ensures effective knowledge management.
SharePoint Alternatives: 10 Tools for Effective Collaboration and Document Management
As a web-based collaborative platform, Microsoft SharePoint has become one of the go-to tools when it comes to storing, organizing, sharing, viewing and accessing information from any device close to you. It is a versatile solution that even lets users create websites to share information and collaborate with their team members. Despite all these great features, it isn't without its limitations. After all, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. From pricing to features to functionalities, people are always on the lookout for an alternative tool that suits their needs. The same holds true for SharePoint as well. In this blog, we'll shed some light on some of the SharePoint alternatives in the market to help you figure out which one best suits your unique requirements.
Feature Release: IT Glue Vault for Quick Notes
At IT Glue, we are constantly looking to further fortify your sensitive information and knowledge to keep up the fight against modern threats. With that in mind, we are excited to add Quick Notes as an additional asset type on top of passwords to be part of IT Glue Vault. The Quick Notes functionality in IT Glue provides MSPs with the facility to document notes about contacts, relationship information, common issues, non-standard setups, general customer history, financial information and more. Check out our blog to know more.
Kaseya BMS Ticketing Inside IT Glue – New Updates
The ticketing integration for Kaseya BMS in IT Glue allows users to see all their existing tickets from BMS directly in the IT Glue window without ever having to switch between the two platforms. Quickly looking at relevant information stored in IT Glue to resolve a BMS ticket in that same window is a significant timesaver for IT technicians and help desk specialists. We have made this feature even more helpful based on our users’ feedback. Let’s explore the new updates that have been made to this integration and how it boosts your overall efficiency.
Business Continuity: The Importance of Planning, Testing and Management
Businesses cannot afford any downtime in this competitive world. However, disruptions can happen at any time. Whether it's a supply chain disruption or a cybersecurity breach, businesses must show resilience in dealing with these issues in order to get back up and running quickly and efficiently. Without business continuity plans, you risk losing your business to competitors who can provide uninterrupted service to customers. Considering the significance of business continuity, it is important to understand various aspects of business continuity planning and make it a part of your business operations. In this blog, we'll explore everything business continuity entails and understand how it plays a critical role in developing a resilient business structure.
MSP Year-in-Review: The Lowlights and Takeaways From 2021
The challenges that MSPs faced presented them with some unique learnings, and most importantly, helped them build strategies to ensure future growth. In this blog, we're going to shed some light on the challenges MSPs faced in 2021 and how the takeaways from these challenges can be used by MSPs to build operational resilience and ensure a better future.
Document Collaboration: Drive Results With Real-Time Document Editing
Collaboration is the need of the hour in today’s business world. Business processes and workflows cannot afford any delays and bottlenecks in today’s environment just because someone does not have access to the right information. The best way to address this issue is through documentation collaboration. Considering the speed at which businesses operate today, collaboration can play a huge role in business productivity, profitability and growth. In this blog, we'll discuss how document collaboration works and why it is a critical factor in today’s competitive business world.
MSP Year-in-Review: The Highlights of 2021
The year 2021 started with the COVID-19 pandemic still at its peak. As global businesses began embracing the remote work model, the tech landscape changed drastically. MSPs, as always, were at the vanguard of facilitating this change. While challenges existed in various aspects of technology and security, it was overall a great year that brought forth a lot of good in the MSP world. In this blog, we'll discuss the strategies and processes that yielded positive outcomes and resulted in growth and profitability for most MSPs.
