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Designed from inception

to integrate all ITIL processes into a single application

Service Desk & Incident Management

The Service Desk is the public face of IT and the heart of IT support. It performs a Typical Incident
critical role in the business by ensuring the productivity of personnel across the Management Lifecycle
organization and communication between IT and the business. To enable this, IT
Incident Detecting & Recording
organizations need a Service Desk solution that supports ITIL best practices for
IT Service Management (ITSM), consolidating the Service Desk function with the
processes that underpin the efficient delivery and support of services. Initial Classification & Support

ITIL Process Integration Self-service Investigation & Diagnosis

Dashboards Service Desk Knowledge Management Resolution & Recover

Monitoring & Tracking Process Automation Incident Closure

Keep Users Productive

Can you track user issues from end-to-end?
Do you have visibility of the cost and impact of service outages?
Is the burden of operational support holding back your IT department?
The assyst solution is a market-
leading enterprise solution for
Service Desk and ITSM. It empowers
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delivery and support processes
within a single integrated toolset
to drive rapid improvements in IT
maturity, agility and efficiency.

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Service Desk & Incident Management
productivity and call levels.

“With the help of assyst Incident Management,

we can now benchmark ourselves against other
organizational units. Another great advantage
is the ability to use Incident Management with
minimal configuration effort, both in terms of
process and application, for other products or Service Desk & Incident Management
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Service Desk and IT Service Management Software

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Service Desk & Incident Management

Real-Time Management Reporting
Trend Analysis Identify ‘fragile’ components and
incidents introduced by change.
Tracking and Compliance Incident records link to
problem records and to the resulting change records
to create a full lifecycle view. All actions performed
on incidents are recorded for full audit reporting.
Dashboards and Reporting Real-time dashboard
reporting of Incident Management Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs), plus detailed infrastructure,
efficiency and intelligence reporting.
and systems management software by automatically accepting
incidents triggered by such systems. By bridging the gap
between business and technical management of networked IT
systems, assyst offers an unprecedented level of cohesiveness.
As a result, Service Desk staff can proactively manage network
and system events, and pre-empt problems before they result in
service degradation.
“The Service Desk can resolve more incidents first
time as assyst accurately displays the user’s asset
details on logging the call without time consuming
manual updates.”
Standard Bank

Service Desk and IT Service Management Software

Established in 1988, Axios Systems is the world’s leading independent provider of Service Desk and IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions. Its
software, assyst, is a fully integrated, out-of-the-box solution, available in on-premise and SaaS models, which helps organizations optimize IT
infrastructure efficiency, reduce overheads and lower the total cost of IT ownership.

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