IBM Control Desk 7.6 Service Request Management Fundamentals (TP362G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Overview

  • Service Request Management challenges
  • Industry standards
  • Tivolis process automation engine
  • IBM Control Desk

Service management

  • IBM Service Management overview
  • Service operation
  • Support levels overview
  • Tickets overview
  • Working with other management processes

The Service Desk

  • Service Desk overview
  • The Service Requests application
  • Looking for new tickets
  • Creating new service requests
  • Filling out the service request
  • Time management
  • Information locations overview
  • Searching for information
  • Fulfilling the request
  • Communications
  • Documenting the solution
  • Resolving tickets
  • The Incidents application
  • Creating the incident ticket
  • Filling out the incident ticket
  • Resolving the incident
  • The Problems application
  • Creating a problem ticket

Service requests, incidents, and problems

  • Process flow
  • Request Fulfillment roles
  • Simple information request scenario
  • Solution lookup scenario
  • Solution creation scenario
  • Complex issue scenario
  • Incident management overview
  • Global issues
  • Event management
  • Incident roles
  • Incident management scenario
  • Problem management overview
  • Problem management roles
  • Problem management scenario

The Service Catalog

  • Service Catalog overview
  • The Service Catalog process
  • Scenario

Self-service

  • Overview
  • Role
  • Self-service tools
  • Scenarios
  • Navigating the Service Portal

Workflows

  • Overview
  • Workflow process maps
  • Task assignments
  • Routing workflow
  • Workflow actions
  • Scenarios

Service level agreements

  • Overview
  • Commitments
  • Escalations
  • Applying service level agreements

Surveys

  • Measuring satisfaction
  • Survey forms
  • Creating a survey
  • Sending surveys

Reporting

  • Overview
  • Running reports
  • Reports