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The Ticketless Enterprise: How AI Agents Prevent Work Instead of Processing It
- Posted by Shankar Gomathi on June 12, 2026
The best support tickets are the ones never submitted. And with the emergence of AI, a ticketless enterprise is becoming a reality, allowing Enterprise operations teams to become more effective and less expensive.
Provance ServiceTeam ITSM Enterprise 3.0
- Posted by Stephen Mann on June 11, 2026
Provance ServiceTeam ITSM Enterprise 3.0 continues the platform’s evolution as a Microsoft-centric service management solution built natively on Microsoft Power Platform. Designed for organizations looking to maximize existing Microsoft investments, the solution combines ITIL-aligned service management capabilities with low-code flexibility, workflow automation, AI-driven innovation, and deep integration across Microsoft 365, Azure, Power BI, Power Automate, and related technologies. ServiceTeam ITSM Enterprise 3.0 offers organizations a modern alternative to traditional ITSM tools while leveraging the scalability, security, and extensibility of the Microsoft ecosystem.
Agentic IT and Third-Party Risk: Why Trusted Runtime Truth Matters
- Posted by Salil Karkarni on June 10, 2026
Strategic roadmaps are filling up with AI agents, command towers, and intelligent automation. Yet both Agentic IT and third-party risk programs share a hidden constraint that rarely makes it into keynotes: neither can succeed without a trusted, runtime view of what exists, how it is connected, and which services it supports.
Service Desk Articles
- SLA Compliance is Misleading: How to Measure True IT Service Health - By Yuri Kudyn on June 9, 2026
- ITSM is Dead? Why Service Management Keeps Outliving Its Obituaries - By Sophie Danby on May 21, 2026
- The CTO Checklist for AI-Ready IT Operations in 2026 - By Rui Alves on May 20, 2026
- From VIPs to VIRs: Rethinking IT Support Prioritization for Business Impact - By Stephen Mann on May 18, 2026
- Shadow AI in IT Support: When Employees Fix Problems Outside the Service Desk - By Judin Joan Soundarya S on April 24, 2026
- Agentic ITSM: Understanding the 4 Levels of AI Maturity in IT Service Management - By Manish Sharma on April 22, 2026
ITSM Articles
- The State of Agentic AI in ITSM 2026: Adoption Trends, Benefits, and Challenges - By Stephen Mann on June 8, 2026
- How ISO 20000 Has Stayed Useful for Twenty Years - By Sophie Danby on June 5, 2026
- Why One in Four Enterprise AI Agent Deployments Aren’t Paying Back - By Richard Mendis on June 3, 2026
- Self-Healing ITSM: Are We Entering the Era of Autonomous Service Management? - By Stephen Mann on June 2, 2026
- Why Co-Managed IT Is Replacing Staff Augmentation for ERP Support Teams - By Stephen Mann on May 29, 2026
- Blogging Tips for ITSM Professionals (Plus How to Use AI Effectively) - By Stephen Mann on May 28, 2026