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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is greatly impacting the lives of organizations, employees and stakeholders. With the outbreak’s rising impact, more employees are migrating to remote, work-from-home practices as means of achieving “social distancing.” However, inevitable challenges are emerging with remote workdays. Obstacles include, but aren’t limited to, employee isolation, diminished productivity and poor team communication or collaboration.
Coronavirus has been a shock to the system for many IT organizations that are traditionally accustomed to working together in person. When you’re in an office, you can often use informal methods of communication—like swinging by someone’s desk, calling them on their office extension, or even imparting critical information when you run into them in the company cafeteria.
We’ve already heard from a couple of customers that continuous operation of critical IT is a ‘must’ in our turbulent times. Not only to facilitate remote work and home office for an unprecedented number of workers but also to keep critical IT infrastructure going. Our customers attest that Enterprise Alert is most critical for them in today’s challenging times and it helps them to stay afloat and be fully operational from their home offices.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced many global enterprises to temporarily shut down their operations, resulting in lost productivity and revenue losses. Yet, with a business continuity management (BCM) strategy, enterprises are well-equipped to limit business interruptions until the pandemic passes.
A Network Operations Center (NOC) is a location from which IT support technicians can supervise, monitor, and maintain client networks and infrastructure. Because they act as a central nervous system for many organizations, NOCs are typically located in a central physical location. The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented situation that is creating new challenges for everyone—and that includes NOCs.
COVID-19 is forcing many teams into crisis mode, as they rush to meet customer and employee needs in our new socially distanced reality. Organizations with experienced crisis management teams are urgently adding capacity and adapting to distributed working models. And those who haven’t built crisis response teams before are grappling with how to rapidly train employees and get access to the right tools.
Ever since the release of our Teams Integration blog we have received requests from customers on whether we can provide the same functionality for Slack. And the use cases actually are very similar – it is always about an efficient and pragmatic approach to logging issues and tickets that came up during the night by leveraging existing infrastructure and without adding more clutter.
Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree now officially supports schedule rotations! A long awaited feature and requested by many customers, with schedule rotations it’s now easier than ever to schedule a list (or “rotation”) of people for full coverage support. Schedule rotations are available on our Pro and Elite pricing plans and are technically a subset of our “recurring schedules” feature.
