Dan Tynan is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He has won numerous journalism awards and his work has appeared in more than 70 publications, several of them not yet dead. At first, when ...

Like a modern-day cavalry, the IT help desk comes to the rescue of frustrated computer users when a cursor freezes or an error message appears. The service ...

Aging help desk systems hinder remote support and IT fixes. Cloud-based help desks cut costs, ease complexity, boost IT. 28% of businesses are automating IT and help desk services. Along with aging ...

Freshservice and Zendesk both offer powerful IT help desk features, but the right fit depends on your needs and budget. I'm putting them head-to-head to help you find the best fit for your business.

An internal service level agreement for IT support describes the types of services, the service levels, and the responses to end-user requests that the IT help desk will provide. The purpose of this ...

Whether you’re on the IT team at a company or work for a managed service provider (MSP), a help desk ticketing tool is a must for providing solid tech support. These applications give IT staff and end ...

Service desk chatbots and automated request routing are just the beginning. AI- and ML-driven tools will soon tap predictive analytics for better decision making in incident management, demand ...

A new report from Splashtop shows that IT support is under a great deal of pressure when it comes to working through support tickets for a number of reasons. The fallout and constant adjustments to ...

Dmytro Lazarchuk is a co-founder and CEO of Relokia with over eight years of experience in digital marketing and data migration services. According to Forbes Insights, 89% of executives at ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...