Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ITSM report highlights tools or technologies that improve IT operations. It’s a comprehensive, in-depth document, allowing support teams to gain insight into the latest innovations, industry trends and recommendations. The OnPage team is pleased to be included in the latest Hype Cycle for ITSM report, listing OnPage’s solution as a trusted, reliable source for IT service alerting (ITSA).

Imagine this: An airline encounters a major IT incident in a data center that affects their ticketing system. Behind the scenes, technical responders are scrambling to diagnose and fix the issue. However, because today’s systems are so complex, this issue is taking longer than expected to resolve, and hours have passed since the system went down. Meanwhile, passengers are stranded and taking their anger out on customer service agents and sharing their frustrations on social media.

"Businesses need to face the inevitability of being hacked at some point. It's not a question of if, but when — and that's why being proactive to minimize the risk is essential." Robert Egan. When a critical incident hits, what happens to an organization without an efficient incident management plan? Essentially, all stakeholders are left "fighting fires," trying to recover their systems, and get their business back up and running.

The last decade has ushered in a golden era of software engineering. The rise of cloud computing freed companies from managing their own data centers and provided on-demand scaling. These services allow for provisioning servers on the fly using configuration and code. Treating that task as just another type of software development led to the advent of DevOps.

Healthcare organizations strive to enhance patient experience, ensuring that patients receive proper treatment at the right time, every time. However, due to antiquated communication tools, such as the pager, this goal is often difficult to achieve for some healthcare providers. Today’s healthcare facilities require an advanced pager replacement solution, integrating with intelligent scheduling systems and EMR solutions for better patient outcomes.