Service management stories
Automation spending is rising as firms use it to cut back-office bottlenecks and free staff for revenue-generating work.
The long-term arrangement should cut outages and speed up issue resolution across Knorr-Bremse's global SAP, engineering and PLM systems.
Australian dispatchers should see faster incident response as HERE's live map data feeds Octave OnCall with routing and ETA tools.
Early users have seen service desk calls fall by 60% as DXC's new workplace platform tries to fix IT issues before staff notice them.
The approval clears the way for a larger managed services group serving 4,000 businesses to expand across Australia, New Zealand and the US.
Support teams can now handle device context and remediation in one place as PDQ widens its Windows and macOS management tools.
APAC customers are fuelling LogicMonitor's AI growth, with Australia among the earliest adopters of its Edwin AI platform.
A 91-place jump in CRN's Fast Growth 150 signals rising demand for Myriad360's security, cloud and infrastructure services.
IT teams can now handle Mac and Windows vulnerabilities in one workflow, while support agents gain ticketing links that cut manual lookups and errors.
Councils are being urged to track savings and focus on improvement after software roll-outs, as one New Zealand authority cuts ERP ownership costs by 38%.
Australian businesses gain local help to move Claude pilots into live use, with TechForce handling integration, governance and approvals.
The multi-year overhaul should cut costs and improve issue resolution as Metsä Group consolidates global IT services under one partner.
Most IT teams are finding AI in service management costs more in training, data cleanup and upkeep than they expected.
IT teams can now issue endpoint tasks from AI assistants, with PDQ keeping permissions, authentication and audit trails intact.
The shift reflects a bid to bundle operations software and insurance for 80,000 organisations as frontline work becomes more data-driven.
The Denver hub will help Uptick hire more staff and support growing demand as North American customers pass 200 in under two years.
Utilities and local authorities could get a wider software stack as the combined group adds payments, inspections and fieldwork tools.
The move gives businesses a new framework to measure AI spending, value and governance as token-based costs become harder to predict.
Enterprises can now avoid upfront licensing as charges shift to verified identity tasks, with a healthcare provider already piloting the system.
Customers will get fewer handovers during outages as Cello folds GKC Consulting's observability expertise into its network operations business.