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ITIT Service Management

An ITIL-based IT desk for employees: incidents, requests, changes, CMDB, on-call and a self-service portal.

IT Service Management is the internal IT desk, built on ITIL 4 practices. Employees raise incidents and requests from a self-service portal, mobile, email or Sangam; IT agents work queues against SLAs on business hours; change managers run changes through CAB approval and a change calendar. The CMDB builds on Workplace IT assets, and major incidents get a Sangam war room.

Key capabilities

  • Incidents and requests from portal, email and chat
  • Service catalogue with forms and approvals
  • Changes with risk scoring, CAB and a calendar
  • CMDB and service map on Workplace IT assets
  • Major incidents with a Sangam war room
  • On-call rotations, alerts and paging

Service desk home

Agents start from their own queue, their groups’ unassigned work, SLAs at risk and what is on call.

  • My open tickets, my breached tickets, unassigned in my groups and tickets at risk
  • Approvals for me, active major incidents, changes this week and changes waiting for CAB
  • On-call status and open pages
  • My tasks and a created-versus-resolved chart for the last 14 days
  • Available-for-assignment switch

Incidents and tickets

Capture every IT issue, set its priority consistently and route it to the right group.

  • Intake from the portal, mobile, agent console, inbound email, a Sangam command and monitoring alerts
  • Impact by urgency priority matrix, editable per company
  • Routing by category and keywords, then round robin or load balanced with skills, skipping agents on leave
  • Queues for mine, my groups, unassigned, all and breached
  • Parent and child tickets, merge, tasks, time entries and canned responses
  • Similar tickets and suggested articles, with a collision banner for agents

Service requests and catalogue

Offer a catalogue of what IT provides, with the right form and approvals for each item.

  • Catalogue items with forms built on the Forms engine, expected times and prices
  • Approvals by manager, manager then IT, or a custom chain
  • Fulfilment tasks in sequence or in parallel
  • Bundles such as a new joiner kit that create one request per item
  • Joiner, mover and leaver requests raised from People events
  • Hardware tasks that check out a ready Workplace asset to the requester
  • Documents generated from request details

Major incidents and service status

Coordinate a serious outage and keep everyone informed.

  • Declare from a P1 or P2 with a commander and communications lead
  • Sangam war-room channel and meeting room created automatically
  • Templated stakeholder updates and an internal service status board
  • Post-incident review with an automatic timeline and PDF export

Problems and known errors

Find and remove the root causes behind repeat incidents.

  • Problems linked to incidents, with five whys, workaround and permanent fix
  • Known-error records shown to agents on matching incidents
  • Problem tasks created in Projects with their status on the problem

Changes, change calendar and releases

Change systems safely, at the right time.

  • Standard, normal and emergency changes with a weighted risk questionnaire
  • Visual designer for change workflows and rules
  • CAB approvals by risk, and impact analysis from the CMDB
  • Change calendar coloured by risk, with blackout windows and collision detection
  • Releases that group changes, with planned dates, stages and deployment tasks
  • Deployment gate for CI/CD pipelines

CMDB and service map

Know what you run, how it connects, and what breaks if something fails.

  • Configuration item classes from business services down to end-user devices
  • Hardware items linked live to Workplace IT assets, never copied
  • Relationships such as depends on, runs on and hosted on
  • Business services with criticality, tier, owner and health from open incidents and maintenance
  • Impact view up to business services and dependency view down
  • CSV import with dry run, a discovery API, a network scan probe and cloud collectors

Knowledge

Write answers once and put them in front of employees and agents.

  • Articles with versions, review and approval before publishing
  • Translations and feedback on each article
  • Popular articles on the portal and suggestions while typing

On-call

Make sure someone is always reachable when something breaks.

  • Rotations, overrides and escalation policies
  • Pages by push, in-app and an optional SMS hook, with acknowledge
  • Monitoring alerts with de-duplication, and heartbeat checks

Self-service portal

Help employees help themselves, and make it easy to ask when they can’t.

  • Portal with search, catalogue, report an issue, my tickets, approvals, announcements and service status
  • Virtual agent that answers from knowledge and the catalogue and can raise a ticket
  • Ticket by email to the company’s IT address, threaded on the ticket number
  • CSAT rating on resolve
  • Portal in Indian languages, and a walk-up kiosk

SLAs, reports and settings

Hold the desk to clear targets and set it up the way your IT team works.

  • SLA and OLA clocks on business hours with People holiday calendars, pausing while pending
  • Vendor contract clocks and experience level agreements
  • Escalations at 75 percent, breach and 150 percent
  • Reports on volume, MTTR, SLA compliance, change success and CSAT
  • Groups and agents, categories, priority matrix, rules, canned responses, channels and tokens, JML and announcements
Screens

IT Service Management in the product

India

Indian rules, built in

Calendars and defaults suit Indian offices.

How Thoshika handles Indian compliance

  • Business hours in IST with state holidays from People locations
  • Festive change freezes handled as blackout windows
  • Prices on catalogue items shown in rupees
Mobile

IT Service Management on Android and iOS

IT Service Desk is in the Thoshika app, under the app switcher, for agents and for every employee.

About the mobile apps

On the phone

  • Agent home with my queue, breaches and on-call pages to acknowledge
  • Ticket detail to reply, add a note, change status, assign to me and resolve
  • Report an incident from the employee portal
  • Catalogue requests with the item’s form
  • My tickets with status, knowledge articles and CSAT rating
  • Approvals in the shared inbox
Who uses it

Roles in IT Service Management

Every person signs in once. Roles decide what they see, and can be limited to a location, branch or other scope where the app supports it.

Employee

Raises, tracks and rates tickets, requests catalogue items, approves requests and reads knowledge.

IT agent

Works tickets for their groups, handles problems and tasks, edits the CMDB and acknowledges pages.

Change manager

Runs changes, CAB, the change calendar, blackout windows and releases.

ITSM admin

Sets up groups, SLAs, the catalogue, rules, knowledge approval, discovery tokens and reports.

See IT Service Management with your own processes

IT Service Management is available on its own or as part of Thoshika One, with every app for every employee.