The Benefits of Service Desk Automation

Service desk incidents can be a tedious task. Every call has to be registered, categorized prioritized, and then given to the right agent by your team. The future software ITSM Demo can help your team do some of this task. Service desk staff can use AI to let them free up time and focus on what they do best, which is solving complex calls. Learn 3 ways AI can assist your service desk be more efficient.

Service request and incident registrations run quicker

Incident and service request registration is part of the day's job for the service desk. Service desk staff don't just record the incident or request but also record a lot of other information, including the category and priority. The process of evaluating this data correctly isn't easy, costly and prone to errors. If you can ease the administrative burden on your service desk staff they will be thankful. Still regular registration and categorization are an essential part of your services:

The correct recording of incidents is simpler to assign to the correct abilities.

If you register the correct information, it will enable you to establish the priorities.

Service desk managers can run reports on service status.

How can AI help your service desk workers ease their burdens?

AI allows you to register. It is able to discover the nature of service requests and incidents within a certain category such as. AI provides service desk employees with suggestions for categories for every new incident or service request. It makes these suggestions based on the information in the knowledge database. AI also provides suggestions to the staff of the service desk for additional fields to fill out on form for service requests or incident forms. This makes them easier to fill out.

Are incident and service request registrations set to vanish?

AI allows you to record incidents and service requests for virtual help desk. There is no need to register. If you regard registration as a means of routing for example it is possible to achieve the same results using AI without the intermediary process of registration. AI can be utilized to identify what service requests and incidents are similar and also which service desk colleagues can help with them based on information available in the knowledge base. The time will tell if this advancement will make registration completely redundant.

Accurate prioritization of incidents

What can your service desk do to prioritize incidents or requests?

It's possible that it's built on prioritization matrixes, categories , and SLAs. While these are currently the most useful tools for serving customers effectively but the actual process is more nuanced. Additionally, ITSM will actively assist with this type of work in the future.

AI can help with task assignment

Service desk managers will be proud of their service desk employees who take initiative to organize their tasks. AI can help when that is not always the case. AI assesses how long an incident or request will take to resolve by analyzing prior incidents and requests. The AI then assigns tasks based upon the schedules of your service agents. AI can suggest a task that takes an hour in the event that one of your IT automation agents suddenly needs an extra hour.