Service Desk IT Service Management: Service Desk

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Service Desk



A Service Desk is a primary contact in IT service called for in IT service management (ITSM) as defined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). They are Single Point of Contact ("SPOC") to meet the communication needs of both Users and IT employees   but also to satisfy both Customer and IT Provider objectives. "User" refers to the employees of the company and “Customer” refers to the entity those are using company services.
Service desk handles the incident and provides the interface for different ITSM activities:

  • Incident management
  • Problem management
  • Configuration management
  • Change management
  • Release management
  • Service-level management
  • Availability management
  • Capacity management
  • Financial management
  • IT service continuity management
  • Security management
There are 3 ways to reach service desk of any company that are phone,mail and tickets. SD has dedicated email, phone number and ticketing group. If users get  any issue then they contact service desk directly through any of  three ways. If user calls and sends email to service desk then they create a ticket on behalf of the user and assign to the concerned team according to the issue. Some time user also creates the ticket and assign to SD and then they assign the ticket to other team.

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