The Numerify Blog
- October 29, 2020
ITIL Processes DevOps Organizations May Want to Reinforce
In today’s agile business world, many organizations might assume that ITIL’s rigid approach method is…
Read more - October 22, 2020
Focus on Stakeholder Value to Optimize IT Strategy
The traditional impression of IT departments is that they maintain the value someone else creates….
Read more - October 15, 2020
The New Role of Change Advisory Boards in an Automated World
In a constantly changing world, processes that worked well a short time ago no longer…
Read more - October 08, 2020
8 IT Operations Metrics That Offer Vital Feedback to Developers
DevOps is supposed to represent a seamless partnership between development and operations, accelerating and simplifying…
Read more - September 17, 2020
AIOps and the Capabilities it Should Deliver
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world around us in countless ways. However, in an…
Read more - September 01, 2020
Optimizing Change Management in a Volatile Environment
Digital systems have never been more critical or central to your business than in today’s…
Read more - August 25, 2020
Why You Need to Develop an AI Strategy for IT Operations Now — Before Your Next Crisis Event Hits
Countless enterprise plans have been disrupted in 2020 as a direct result of the ongoing…
Read more - August 18, 2020
ITSM: More Important Than Ever in a Volatile World
We live in an ever-changing world that requires both people and businesses to be agile…
Read more - August 13, 2020
Keep Your Distributed Workforce Productive with Proactive IT Service & Change Management
While businesses across the globe wrestle with unprecedented volatility, stakeholders expect IT leaders to sustain…
Read more - July 30, 2020
How Has ITIL 4 Evolved Change Management? And How Can AI-powered Analytics Propel Its Objectives?
ITIL Change Management best practices have been heavily revised in the ITIL 4 rerelease. Rather…
Read more - July 28, 2020
Understanding the ITIL 4 Change Management Process (And How Automation Can Enhance IT)
Changes are a standard part of daily IT Operations, no matter what category it may…
Read more - July 21, 2020
DevOps vs Agile: Why Understanding Their Similarities and Differences Is Key to Effective IT Leadership
Agile. DevOps. Chances are great that if you’re reading this blog, you’re familiar with both….
Read more - June 12, 2020
Using IT Analytics to Make Business Services More Resilient
High velocity IT environments have the central goal of enabling businesses to deliver more value,…
Read more - May 14, 2020
4 Ways Your Unstructured IT Data Can Sustain Business Continuity
As many of us continue to work remotely and the strength of our IT processes…
Read more - May 12, 2020
Measuring IT Service Satisfaction When Your Reputation Is on the Line
Delivering Proactive IT Services: Part I Many IT organizations feel out of control of their…
Read more - April 30, 2020
Need Insights About Your IT Operations? Automate to Cut Data Prep Time by 96%
Volatility is currently constricting the globe, putting pressure on our critical business infrastructures and processes….
Read more - April 24, 2020
5 Ways to Use NLP for Smarter Incident Management During a Crisis
This is the second of a two-part series on this topic. Part 1 introduces Natural…
Read more - April 23, 2020
IT Operations Metrics That Can Predict a Looming Major Incident
Your teams have spent years building your organization’s networked systems and connected applications. Now they’re…
Read more - April 16, 2020
What Is AIOps, and Why You Need It Now, More Than Ever
By deriving insights with AI-backed analytics and automating tasks, AIOps promises greater efficiency and productivity for IT organizations, freeing up resources to provide additional value to the enterprises they serve.
Read more - April 09, 2020
Keep your responders productive in a crisis: reduce $2M worth of unnecessary incidents
If you’re like most of our customers, you’re probably trying to adapt your incident management…
Read more - March 17, 2020
Adding Agility to the Change Management Process
The use of IT business analytics can enable change advisory boards (CABs) and IT operations teams to be more agile. Change management processes can be improved by insights derived from historical data sourced across all key systems of record.
Read more - February 04, 2020
How to Make Decisions to Mitigate Change Risk (Part 4)
Once risks in the production environment are identified, an organization must make appropriate response decisions…
Read more - January 28, 2020
How IT Operations Can Anticipate Change-Related Risks (Part 3)
Using data generated from key systems of record and analyzed using a System of Intelligence…
Read more - January 21, 2020
Evaluating the Data You Are Using to Manage Production Risk (Part 2)
Using the right IT analytics techniques reveals which risks are present, how likely they are…
Read more - January 15, 2020
What Kinds of Data Should You Be Using to Reduce IT Operations Risk (Part 1)
Changes to the production environment can cause major incidents, disrupting critical business services. In fact,…
Read more - December 09, 2019
Using AI to shift from reactive to proactive major incident management
What Predicting Tornadoes and Major IT Incidents Have in Common When the weather turns bad,…
Read more - November 26, 2019
How to Prioritize IT Problems for Maximum Impact
Prioritizing which problems to tackle depends on your organizational objectives. For example, businesses worried about…
Read more - November 25, 2019
Visualize the Lifecycle of Your Tickets to Identify IT Process Inefficiencies
Sometimes it pays to sweat the small stuff. Organizations predominantly use IT business analytics to…
Read more - October 22, 2019
The Right Way to Establish ITSM Accountability
Making specific leaders or teams responsible for particular IT Service Management (ITSM) metrics bridges the…
Read more - October 15, 2019
Establish Change Risk Metrics to Drive IT Agility
Risks in the production environment can have major consequences for both users and the bottom…
Read more - October 08, 2019
How to Start Analyzing Your IT Process Data Today
The thought of transitioning to a data-centered culture, where all of your IT process data…
Read more - September 30, 2019
IT Service Delivery Friction: Defining It, Identifying It, and Eliminating It
When friction develops between processes or IT teams, it can slam on the brakes for…
Read more - September 09, 2019
How Success Should Be Defined for an IT Department in an Organization
Defining success for an IT department based on meeting goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)…
Read more - August 19, 2019
Design Principles for Packaged Machine Learning Solutions
One of the biggest advantages IT leaders gain by working with an AI-powered IT business…
Read more - August 13, 2019
IT Business Analytics – Build or Buy?
Whether the decisions IT leaders make concern revenue, costs, team productivity, devops, future risk, or…
Read more - August 06, 2019
ITIL Versus Agile: How IT Service Teams Can Avail the Best of Each Methodology
Agile and ITIL are two popular IT methodologies that have, at separate times, gained traction…
Read more - July 02, 2019
Why Smart Incident Management Needs NLP (Part 1)
Better incident management is a critical area of focus for all IT organizations given the…
Read more - June 10, 2019
3 Ways to Improve Your IT Service Provider Relationships and Save $1.2M
If you’re like most IT teams, about 10% of your budget is out of your…
Read more - April 11, 2019
The Business Case for IT Analytics: The best-kept secret (no more)
Earlier today, we issued a press release announcing the results of a Total Economic Impact™…
Read more - February 25, 2019
My Journey to Numerify
Background Hello, my name is Ben Sapp and I want to share a bit about…
Read more - January 03, 2019
Numerify’s Top 5 Best Practices For Incident Reduction
Are your employees bogged down by the sheer volume of tickets being logged every day?…
Read more - December 13, 2018
Let IT Initiatives be The Driver of CMDB Health Projects
The CMDB is Dead! IT operations gurus and service delivery pundits have regularly predicted the…
Read more - December 11, 2018
Attaining IT Agility Requires Better Visibility
Now more than ever, digital transformation is linked with the very survival of organizations. On…
Read more - October 02, 2018
How to Use Analytics to Drive Win-Win Relationships with your IT Service Providers
IT’s role in the enterprise is growing — as is its budget and a pressure…
Read more - July 26, 2018
Root Cause Analysis: What it is and Why it’s an IT Must-Have
Suppose you drive over a pothole and your bumper comes off. You decide to use…
Read more - July 23, 2018
A Framework for Optimizing the Health of Your Application Portfolio
To remain competitive in these technologically disruptive times, enterprises must transform themselves digitally. As coined…
Read more - July 10, 2018
Proactive Analytics for IT: Reactive Operational Metrics Just Aren’t Enough
Many IT departments find themselves constantly putting out fires, reacting to problems on a day-to-day…
Read more - July 03, 2018
Application Health: Developing a Shared View Across Your IT Teams
Getting various stakeholders in an enterprise to agree on whether an application is healthy and…
Read more - June 14, 2018
Smart IT: What We Can Learn From These 2018 IT Outages
The year’s not yet half over but dozens of major companies (and possibly many more)…
Read more - May 30, 2018
How Does a System of Record Fit Into a System of Intelligence?
CIOs are one of the main drivers of bringing the power of analytics to power…
Read more - May 23, 2018
How Does IT Operations Analytics Fit Into a System of Intelligence?
IT operations analytics, or ITOA, is sometimes confused with a System of Intelligence for IT…
Read more - April 26, 2018
Infographic: IT’s Path to Agile Transformation
We all know there is a direct relationship between digital transformation and an organization’s survival….
Read more - February 22, 2018
Mastering Change with Machine Learning
Change success is a critical concern for IT leaders, because both the frequency of changes…
Read more - January 24, 2018
Communication and Collaboration Drives Innovation in the IT Workplace
Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to volunteer with local elementary…
Read more - October 19, 2017
Navigating IT Complexity: How to Move Your Organization in the Right Direction
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of IT? If you…
Read more - January 11, 2017
IT Operations Challenges I Encountered Working on a Consumer-Facing Team
A few years back, I worked at a global retailer in Tech Operations management supporting…
Read more - November 30, 2016
Numerify IT Contact Analytics: The Inside Story
Yesterday, we launched the Early Access Program (EAP) for our IT Contact Analytics solution, a…
Read more - November 16, 2016
Tales from the Trenches: IT Reporting During Peak Retail Periods
This post was written by Numerify’s Director of Product Marketing to offer firsthand insight into…
Read more - November 09, 2016
Behind the Scenes: IT’s Hidden (But Significant) Role in Retail
At a play, spectators see only practiced actors and rehearsed scenes — the work that…
Read more - October 12, 2016
Help Your Change Velocity Take Flight with Analytics
After my last blog discussing how analytics can help manage risks while driving successful changes,…
Read more - September 28, 2016
Driving IT Innovation with a Change Management Strategy
We recently held a webinar about change management innovation, which happened to fall on the…
Read more - August 03, 2016
6 Ways Analytics Will Take Your IT Service Data to the Next Level
IT organizations are under increasing pressure to improve their service delivery to both internal and…
Read more - July 06, 2016
3 Ways to Measure Staff Workloads More Effectively with ITSM Analytics
Your organization uses ServiceNow® to assign tasks to your staff, and the application does a…
Read more - October 02, 2015
Mature Your IT Operational Processes with Ticket Assignment Analysis
“Automation” is the key enabler for any process, including IT operational processes, for traversing the…
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