Use cases


Consult the following use cases for information about 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 service management use cases by using AI Service Management capabilities:

  • Automatically responding to inbound emails
  • Identifying problems proactively
  • Identifying and tracking multiple incidents for the same issue
  • Detecting major incidents

Automating custom use cases:

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

Automating Service Management and Operations Management tasks:

  • Out-of-the-box content packs in BMC Helix applications
  • Automation by using BMC applications and third-party tools
  • Automations and remediations in BMC Helix 

Automating F5 devices backup and restore tasks

Using BMC Helix Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround as a knowledge provider:

  • Viewing preloaded knowledge articles that contain screenshots and videos
  • Viewing articles from BMC Helix ITSM: Knowledge Management synchronized with BMC Helix Knowledge Management by ComAround
  • Leveraging the extended language support and over 100 languages in auto-translation
  • Using AI-powered cognitive and natural language processing search capabilities
  • Exposing knowledge articles in a public portal to external users and to BMC Helix Digital Workplace and BMC Helix Virtual Agent users
  • Embedding multimedia content into knowledge articles
  • Viewing all changes made to a knowledge article by using the Article History panel
  • Viewing all tickets associated with the knowledge article

Leveraging BMC HelixGPT chat for a chat-based search experience to search for information from knowledge articles.

 

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