Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 13 | Page 77

INTELLIGENT GOVERNMENT M AS S ST NT U C E C D O RE Reduced business costs: Thanks to management of software licenses through the CMDB, EAIG now face less penalty fees and are confident that they are compliant with software licensing, with assyst providing a much clearer picture of what they have and what is in use across the business. NAG MA E T E Asset Management: Whereas before there was no clear view of assets, use of the CMDB has allowed EAIG to effectively manage all deployed configuration items and has given the ability to locate assets with the right people at the right time. The team can also now evaluate what services are impacted if certain configuration items are not functioning, vital to maintaining overall business performance. E The Benefits D BUSINE S S By using assyst, EAIG have reported the following benefits: because of reviews from Gartner and existing Axios customers. The group have since rolled out assyst for Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and CMDB. A shared services model ITQAN run an IT Shared Service Center, providing support to all the companies within the EAI Group. This model delivers efficiency and value, significantly reducing the IT operational cost for each company of the group, and contributing to the enhanced productivity of the business as a whole. ITQAN effectively acts as a service provider, with SLAs and cost centers set up for all the individual companies within in the group. The ITQAN service desk acts as a single point of contact for logging tickets, and 1st level support is provided by ITQAN Service Desk team which includes remote support. Any tickets not resolved by 1st level are escalated to level 2 support teams. www.intelligentcio.com The future EAIG now plan to develop their use of assyst further. Next on their service management journey will be increased automation through the rollout of a Service Catalog to provide self-service functionality to the 5,000 employees of the EAI Group. This will reduce calls and further improve resolution rates, thus improving productivity of the ITQAN Service Desk team, with their time freed up to focus on more valued business tasks. The group also plan to adopt enterprisewide service management by rolling assyst out to other departments, starting with HR, Legal and Facilities. This will not only maximize their value from the investment, but also enhance end user experience. INTELLIGENTCIO 77