News from Spiceworks HQ

[Pages:15]News from Spiceworks HQ

Peter & Rob May 19, 2016

Spiceworks

Millions of IT pros. 3,000 tech advertisers... all getting their jobs done in one place.

? Inventory Management

? IT Help Desk

? Network Monitoring

? IT Discussions

SpiceCorps

Local IT meet-ups ? run by IT pros!

? 164 groups in 20 countries

? IT pros get together to talk shop, hear from vendors, and get the latest IT news.

? Employees sometimes visit to share updates from HQ!

Network Monitor

Catch problems ? before your users do!

? It's an early warning system for your most important servers and switches.

? See your network in real-time.

? Get the alerts you need.

? Keep an eye on critical devices.

? 1.3 (current version)

Spiceworks Help Desk

Overview

ON-PREMISE

CLOUD

? Comprehensive IT help desk for IT

? Purpose-built SaaS help desk, designed for IT

? Installed on your network (Windows server)

? No installation/administration hassle

? Ticketing, reporting, knowledge base, network

? Dedicated tool for managing user requests

inventory, and more

? Reporting dashboard & data export

? Reporting dashboard, custom reports, alerts

? Manage multiple clients/sites: true multi-tenancy

? Manage multiple clients/sites

? Ticket rules, user portal, (beta) mobile apps

? Ticket rules, user portal, mobile apps

? Recent: Ticket Merge, Custom attributes on

? Lots of customization options, apps/add-ons

portal, custom "From" email address on

? v7.5: dashboard customizations, labor graph,

notifications

#notify Tickets Anywhere command, "Waiting on

User" state alerts, inline attachment thumbnails

? Ticket Templates ? Help Desk Weekly Report

? Insights (how you compare to other similar companies in # of tickets worked, avg. time spent, etc)

? Knowledge base w/user AD/LDAP integration ? Dashboard & reporting enhancements ? Notification settings to control when users and

admins get ticket update email notifications.

*It's not official until it's released. ;-)

Soon*

Spiceworks Inventory

Manage your devices, don't let them manage you.

? Have all your info in one place ? For each device, get detailed stats including hardware

configuration, installed OS, software, patches, IP address and more ? Quickly generate custom, snazzy-looking reports on all your network assets, meaning no more manual data

Spiceworks 7.5

? Ticket dashboard customization

? Inventory Table View ? Category and tech metrics on

ticket dashboard ? Custom icons for devices ? New Settings pages ? Improved "Waiting on user"

ticket state ? New built-in search capability

for reporting ? Device Archiver (App Center

App) ? ... and more!

Spiceworks Troubleshooting (beta)

? Connectivity Dashboard

? Real-time status of end-user's ability to reach Apps ? Enables Reactive and Proactive troubleshooting

? Reactive troubleshooting

? Helps when users complain about Cloud or Data-Center application issues (connectivity or slowness)

? Answers the question: "Are other users experiencing the same problems or is this an isolated case?"

? Proactive detection (before users complain):

? Application down/slow (vertical red/orange bar) ? Remote site or ISP down/slow (gray/orange block) ? Single user disconnected/slow (gray/orange line) ? Group of users disconnected/slow (gray/orange block)

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