A service desk is not service management

IT has become an essential component of practically every business today, underpinning the basic functioning of the enterprise, Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval Africa. As such, providing effective IT services is critical to the efficiency and...

Service improvement hinges on SMOs

The IT department of any organisation has traditionally operated in a silo, viewed as a cost centre rather than a driver of value, and not seen as a customer-facing activity of the business. However, as IT has become increasingly important for the daily operations for...

ITIL still going strong after 25 years

In a short amount of time the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has positioned itself as the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. Now that ITIL is in its 25th year, local industries are still keen (if not more so), to...

Marval attains ITIL PinkVERIFY certification

Marval is pleased to announce that its integrated IT Service Management (ITSM) software solution, MSM Expert, has successfully passed the criteria for PinkVERIFY 2011 Toolsets, demonstrating 100% of the required functionality for all 15 Pink defined ITIL processes....

Cultural differences in ITSM

There are two areas of culture we need to look at. The first is an understanding of the role of ITSM and the need to challenge the business perception that looks upon the IT department or division in an organisation as a separate entity rather than an integral part of...

Bridging the business/IT divide

At a recent event held in Century City, Cape Town, SME-focussed IT managed services specialists Space Age Technologies revealed an all-new stratagem for modern small and medium sized businesses to get the most value from their IT investments – called Relevant...