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Get your sheet together: how to create an incident communication plan

Downtime happens. While it can certainly be chaotic and stressful, if handled properly, it can also be a chance to build customer trust and loyalty. The way you respond to and communicate around incidents and downtime tells customers a lot about what you value. Therefore, it’s essential to show customers you value them by communicating early, often, and candidly during an incident.

How to convince your boss you need a status page

Every company depends on tools that help them do their jobs. HR tools, CRMs, chat & collaboration tools, business intelligence tools, marketing automation tools… the list goes on. Bringing another tool into the mix involves approval processes, buy-in from execs, and the occasional boss-nudging for her credit card.

5 questions on the latest ITSM trends

Last month, Atlassian attended SITS 2018, The Service Desk and IT Show. We staffed a busy booth, demoing our software and learning about challenges facing the support managers, analysts, IT directors, and CTOs in attendance. Our own Principal Solutions Engineer, Paul Buffington, also spoke to an overflowing crowd about best practices for incident management. We sat down with Paul to get his thoughts on some of the most noteworthy ITSM trends.

Status page open source vs. paid guide

Over the years here at Statuspage we’ve probably heard every version of the open source vs. paid status page argument. While we’re obviously fans of the SaaS model, we also know there are a lot of advantages to an open source status page for a lot of teams. We’ve even recommended that route to some potential customers we thought would have a better experience hosting their own open source page.

Stop support tickets in their tracks with Jira Service Desk and Statuspage

Nothing puts a drag on IT service teams and customer support teams like answering the same question across multiple tickets. Outages and incidents have a way of sending these teams an avalanche of duplicate tickets. During a service interruption, tickets start flying in, the team can’t keep up, and end users have a bad experience made even worse.

Four nines and beyond: A guide to high availability infrastructure

We’ve talked about the increasingly-interconnected nature of cloud tools and the domino-goes-crashing-down effect thatcan happen when just one critical service has downtime. Web uptime is more important than ever, and it’s critical that these services we all rely on are up and running as often as possible.