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almaden ai

Secure, Smart, Practical

Jul 8, 2026 By Almaden AI In Almaden AI
At Almaden, our mission with Collective IQ (CIQ) has been about moving IT from a reactive “firefighting” mode to a proactive, data-driven approach that anticipates impacts to employee productivity. But to build an AI-powered platform that helps other companies work smarter, we have to work smarter ourselves. We also need to deliver responsible solutions which don’t compromise corporate privacy goals.
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InvGate

How to Find and Fix Knowledge Gaps in Your IT Virtual Agent

Jul 8, 2026 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
A virtual agent answers only what it has been given to work with. When an employee asks about a VPN error, a software license request, or a password reset process that changed last quarter, the agent's response is only as good as the knowledge base behind it. Gaps in that knowledge base show up as deflected tickets that bounce back to a human, generic responses that miss the specific issue, or silence on topics employees ask about every week.
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ivanti

From IT Asset Discovery to Automated Action: Closing the IT Operations Loop

Jul 8, 2026 By Cristiane Villar In Ivanti
Organizations today invest heavily in discovery tools, expecting that increased visibility will solve their IT challenges. Yet when an incident hits, a patch fails or an audit looms, many teams must pause to reconcile spreadsheets, validate inventories and confirm ownership before they can act. Visibility alone doesn’t close the gap between insight and execution.
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motadata

Best IT Help Desk Software in 2026: 10 Tools Compared

Jul 8, 2026 By Written by In Motadata
How do you pick the right IT help desk software when every vendor calls itself the best? It comes down to three things. Your team size, your deployment rules, and whether you need full ITSM or plain ticketing. A five-person startup can run support from a shared inbox. A 200-person IT team cannot. Add asset tracking, SLAs, and change control, and that inbox falls apart. The right IT support software routes tickets on its own, links every request to the asset behind it, and shows you where time goes.
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Why prompt injection gets worse with AI agents?

Jul 7, 2026 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
When AI could only answer questions, a bad prompt just meant a bad answer. But now AI agents read your documents, browse websites, and actually do things on your behalf. So when someone sneaks a malicious instruction into a file or a webpage, the agent doesn't just say something wrong. It does something wrong!
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InvGate

Why Some IT Teams Adopt AI Faster (And How to Close The Gap)

Jul 7, 2026 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
Every IT leader is under pressure to show AI results. Budgets are approved, pilots are launched, and vendors promise transformation within a quarter. Some teams are already running AI agents in production, resolving tickets and answering employees without human intervention. Others are still stuck in proof-of-concept purgatory, six months into a rollout with nothing to show a board. The thing is, AI doesn't fix what's broken in an IT operation, it multiplies what's already there.
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Governance while scaling AI in IT operations

Jul 6, 2026 By Ivanti In Ivanti
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.
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motadata

8 Best Patch Management Software for 2026

Jul 6, 2026 By Written by In Motadata
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.
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Grafana & PagerDuty: Automate incident management with ServiceDesk Plus Cloud

Jul 6, 2026 By ManageEngine In ManageEngine
������ �������� ������������ ���� ��������! This month, we're bringing you two new ManageEngine Marketplace extensions for ServiceDesk Plus Cloud that help bridge the gap between your monitoring tools and your service desk. With the Grafana extension, alerts automatically create and resolve tickets in ServiceDesk Plus Cloud—eliminating manual ticket creation and ensuring incidents are tracked the moment they're detected.
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InvGate

How to Perform a Hardware Audit With InvGate Asset Management

Jul 6, 2026 By Ignacio Graglia In InvGate
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.
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