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Use cases

Consult the following use cases for information on how to achieve value with BMC Helix ITSM.

Use cases

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Service request and catalog management use cases:

  • Defining scope of service, cost reduction, and customer satisfaction
  • Providing self-service options for business users to initiate service requests through the Service Catalog
  • Running fulfillment process

Standardize, consolidate, simplify, and optimize Service Desk (Incident Management and Problem Management) use cases:

  • Resolving an incident with the first call
  • Resolving an incident with assignment to a specialist
  • Resolving an incident with an emergency change request
  • Resolving a problem with or without a change request
  • Resolving a problem investigation by using a change request rollback
  • Initiating and resolving incident requests
  • Indicating a problem investigation that is stalled

Change and Release Management use cases:

  • Minimizing impact of changes, managing volume and demand
  • Performing a standard change
  • Performing changes that require approval
  • Releasing a new software program

Asset Management use cases:

  • Setting up the software contracts and certificates
  • Managing service assets from initial procurement to retirement, handling cost, improving utilization, and ensuring compliance
  • Making sure that scheduled changes to CIs do not impact business services
  • Monitoring software usage and service asset lifecycle

Knowledge Management use cases:

  • Creating, storing, publishing, reviewing, and searching IT knowledge articles
  • Providing knowledge for self-service
  • Providing knowledge-centered support (KCS)
  • Resolving tickets with the help of knowledge articles

Service Level Management use cases:

  • Ensuring timely service responses
  • Planning agreements and creating contracts
  • Defining the service target
  • Creating business time, review periods, and measurement criteria templates

Automating service management use cases:

  • Automatically categorizing tickets
  • Automatically applying ticket templates
  • Automatically sending responses to business user emails
  • Recommending risk levels for change requests
  • Recommending root cause for problem investigation

Automating custom use cases:

  • Updating a specific field value
  • Reopening a closed incident
  • Closing an open incident

 

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