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Governance while scaling AI in IT operations

Ivanti is a leading enterprise software company that offers a powerful, cloud-based IT and security platform. Our solutions are designed to scale with your business, helping IT and Security teams boost operational efficiency, cut costs and stay ahead of security threats. The Ivanti Neurons platform is cloud-native, providing a unified and reusable foundation for consistent visibility, scalability, and secure delivery. Trusted by over 34,000 customers, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Ivanti empowers organizations to tackle challenges with end-to-end solutions.

8 Best Patch Management Software for 2026

Somewhere in your environment, a patch is sitting in a queue because the last rollout broke something, and nobody wants to run it again. That is the exact failure mode good patch management software is supposed to prevent, and multiplied across a few hundred endpoints, it is exactly the kind of gap attackers look for.

Grafana & PagerDuty: Automate incident management with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud

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How to Perform a Hardware Audit With InvGate Asset Management

Most IT teams know how to perform a hardware audit in theory. In practice, the process breaks down at the same point every time: the data. Devices in the registry no longer exist. Devices that exist have no owner on record. Lifecycle information is scattered across spreadsheets and vendor portals. A hardware audit that starts from fragmented records doesn't produce a reliable result. It produces a best guess.

How Quality Methods Drive Operational Excellence

Operations teams chase the same goal across every sector. They want fewer defects, less rework, and steadier output. The methods that deliver this rarely come from new software alone. Alt text: Technician in safety glasses assembling an electronic circuit board with a precision tool in a factory.

What is Network Configuration Management

Many network outages usually start with something as small as a configuration change that nobody logged. One undocumented edit to a firewall or a core switch can lead to the team losing hours working out what changed, on which device, and how to undo it. Across cloud, SD-WAN, and multi-vendor stacks, that guesswork only gets more expensive. Network configuration management takes the guesswork off the table.

ServiceNow Runs Your IT. PagerDuty Makes Sure It Never Stops.

For most enterprises, ServiceNow has become the backbone of IT operations, the platform where workflows are governed, compliance is maintained, and every incident, change, and request is tracked from start to finish. If you’re running ServiceNow, you’ve made a serious investment in how your IT operates. PagerDuty is built to make that investment work even harder.

How to Measure AI ROI in IT Service Management

A service desk manager launches a virtual agent in January. By March, chat conversations are climbing, ticket volume hasn't changed much, and the monthly report doesn't explain whether the investment is delivering value. AI rarely produces a single number that proves its return. The gains accumulate across thousands of support interactions, making measurement just as important as deployment.

Introducing AI Analytics Reports in InvGate Service Management

Most teams can confirm their AI features are turned on. Measuring how often employees use them, which requests get resolved without agent intervention, and where AI is helping support teams work more efficiently is a different question. In InvGate Service Management, those capabilities live in AI Hub, a set of built-in AI features that includes the Virtual Service Agent, AI-assisted ticket resolution for agents, automated knowledge generation, and more.