Your CEO just returned from a two-week business trip. Company data is normally backed up to the network via VPN, but not this time. The only copy resides on your CEO’s hard drive and it can’t be accessed. You’ve been contacted because that data is mission critical to the enterprise and your CEO...
Date Published May 23, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
According to the 2010 HDI Support Center Practices & Salary Report, only 19.9% of all centers are offering chat as a contact channel. With adding value and reducing costs at the front of most IT leaders’ minds, is this the right time to increase your support capacity by adding chat? And are the...
Date Published May 23, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
When a group of IT service or technical support professionals gather, one can almost always expect to hear chatter about password resets. On average, about three out of every ten tickets received by support centers are related to password resets. This finding, from a recent HDI Research Corner...
Date Published May 23, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
The proliferation of mobile devices, increasing social and technical sophistication of the twenty-first-century college graduates entering the workforce, and anytime/anywhere demand for access have gained stronger footholds and show no signs of slowing. At the same time, the economic climate...
Date Published May 23, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Mobile device support and the consumerization of IT were hot topics last year, and it does not look like that will be changing anytime soon. Today’s workforce is more geographically dispersed than ever, and global workers expect their technology—particularly mobile technology—to keep up, whether...
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2017
Just as mobile devices can give workers the freedom to access corporate resources from anywhere, at any time, remote/online training can give them the freedom to take training and improve their skills, whether they are at work or on the road.
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
In May 2007, the board of trustees for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) healthcare system called for the replacement of its homegrown electronic health record (EHR) system, which was targeted at ambulatory care, with Epic, a readily available, commercial system. Epic provides comprehensive...
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
True story: The CEO of a large defense contractor spills coffee on his laptop while en route to a business meeting. His staff arranges for a local company to recover highly sensitive data from the damaged laptop, data that is critical to a pending business merger. The recovery is a success, but...
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
In this environment of rapidly changing support requirements and increasing customer demands, the question is not whether organizations should make the transition to web-based support (i.e., chat), but how they can make that transition successfully. When implemented perfectly, chat can deliver...
Date Published May 22, 2012 - Last Updated May 11, 2016
Does “desktop support” have a future? The HDI Desktop Support Advisory Board thinks it does, and this white paper is a road map that will help organizations navigate the changes ahead.
Date Published - Last Updated April 30, 2015