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iTop at the heart of IT services for France’s Ministry of Education

SUMiT : a national reference for good practice Within the Digital Education Directorate, SUMiT is described as a shared...

Managed service delivery: 6 essential tools

Managed services give IT providers a workable alternative to selling consultants by the day. Instead of placing people...

iTop 3.3: A platform designed for the new ways of using ITSM

IT environments are evolving. So are the ways they are used. Your ITSM needs to keep up.

Modernizing IT in a complex public environment

An IT organization ill-equipped to cope with complexity Until 2025, services were still tracked via e-mail and Excel...

AI in Open Source: new dilemmas for IT managers

Artificial intelligence is creeping into IT service management. With the rise of Open Source in parallel in the same...

iTop: the open source ITSM for 400 stores

An IT process focused tool to manage IT for 400 stores The IT department of our client manages the IT of 400 stores, as...

A centralised, automated CMDB for school IT management

Inventory tool, ETL and collectors: a complete data chain With close to 52,000 computers across the Centre-Val de Loire...

A dedicated instance for finance, and one standard way of asking

Incidents, changes: iTop at the core of the IT department SEB’s previous ticketing tool had reached its limits. Before...

Ramsay Santé and iTop: a reliable ITSM for the healthcare sector

A simple, reliable ITSM tool that is suited to the healthcare sector

Thésée Datacenter boosts traceability and service quality thanks to iTop

Need for structure and traceability Prior to iTop, client requests were handled by email or telephone: an untraceable...

AI and ITSM: what do CIOs really want?

Any conversation about digital technology inevitably includes Artificial Intelligence. That said, what do we do about...

15 years of Combodo: From a prototype to a global community

Before there was Combodo, there was an idea On May 26, 2010, Combodo was officially born, but the real story had...

Security with iTop: at the heart of our development strategy

As the year gets under way, we at Combodo, iTop’s software editor, are strengthening our security approach. We are...

Optimising project traceability with GitHub and iTop

We at Combodo chose GitHub to host the source files for our different IT development projects.

ITIL vs ITSM : the winning combo

There’s no shortage of acronyms in IT. ITIL, ITSM… it can be confusing. However, these two different but complementary...

iTop SaaS : how SIDEC du Jura transformed its ITSM

The Jura SIDEC, is an open public-private partnership that plays a key role in supporting 700 local authorities. The...

The importance of an open-source CMDB in contemporary IT operations

What is a CMDB and why Open Source? In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, managing complex IT environments has...

A fully operational IT support service for a large client in the finance sector

In order to deliver a comprehensive set of IT Management and Support Services to a large client in the banking sector,...

ITSM accessible and easy for all users with iTop

Combodo is committed to accessibility, for an ever-improving user experience. For several years now, we have become...

“Long-term” – sustainable, scalable and maintainable

Part three: the implementation of sustainable and maintainable developments Launching a long-term support development...

ITSM: where your IT cost figures actually come from

ITSM tools throw off indicators by the hundred, about how the service desk is running, about the infrastructure behind...

An easy-to-use ITSM tool for managing requests from our 8,000 staff

A single, shared tool across all departments, processing a large number of requests The Council first introduced the...

evosoft, a success story with iTop CMDB and Change Management

Evosoft GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of Siemens AG and the competence center for horizontal and vertical product and...

Local authorities: specific cyberthreats and appropriate responses

Security challenges are evolving rapidly, and local authorities face unique risks when it comes to cyber-attacks....

Build and maintain a network of involved partners

A partnership is like a beautiful plant. First, you have to choose the seed, plant it, and water it to make it grow and...

The 6 ITSM trends in 2024

2024 is shaping up to be a year full of challenges and innovations for ITSM, with Artificial intelligence, Cloud and...

Managing change effectively with iTop

It is often said that 80% of IT issues are caused by mis-managed changes. While it’s difficult to ‘fact-check’ that...

Managing ITSM for customers with disparate environments: a challenge accepted with iTop!

To guarantee a high level of service to its customers, ScaleSquad has been using the iTop ITSM tool, known for its...

ITSM software: automation as a vector of savings?

Synonymous with efficiency and productivity, automation is commonplace in all business processes. ITSM is no exception:...

IT budgets: strong pressure on CIOs in 2023

After many years of freedom in terms of investments, justified by the digital transformation of their companies,...

ITSM software as a true reflection of the evolution of IT infrastructures

Digital services companies or internal CIOs, you know it all too well: changes within your technical infrastructures...

ITSM software to promote collaboration

While users are increasingly looking for autonomy, they expect maximum responsiveness from the IT department. One of...

Collecting data with iTop in action

In this tutorial, we will cover data synchronization with iTop and see how to adapt it to a specific need thanks to...

Which iTop SaaS offer is right for you?

Free ? Team ? If you are wondering which iTop SaaS offer to choose from, in order to start or strengthen the management...

CIO: staying agile in a changing environment

The Information Systems Department is constantly evolving, according to the growth of the company, internal changes,...

Eat your own dog food

How our ITSM solution iTop is a core element of our organisation When you join Combodo this is something that strikes...

Cloud Hosting: 5 good reasons to trust the SaaS version of iTop

Security, maintainability, functional scope, scalability… When you choose an ITSM tool in SaaS mode, take a word of...

How to choose your ITSM solution?

Choosing an IT Service Management Tool (ITSM) has never been more difficult, or more important, because it is essential...

Long-term internal organization for a great LTS release

Part 2: how Combodo has organized itself to adapt to the STS-LTS model There are many benefits of combining Long-term...

IT Service Management Software: 5 features for small organizations

IT service management (ITSM) software can professionalize and/or modernize your practices. For an IT team of less than...

SaaS and open source: conditions for a successful coexistence

SaaS and open source: two models that first seem to be at odds with each other, which nevertheless have a lot to do...

IT management for SMB: looking for the ideal solution

In small IT departments, as elsewhere, structuring IT management is essential to guarantee a certain quality of service...

IT management software: why SMB IT teams need it

Overload, just-in-time work, new business needs… Small IT teams in SMBs are often overstretched, used to dealing with...

When the IT operations manager loses control of his IT environment

As an IT operations manager, you are responsible for the smooth running of IT production and IS maintenance. So the...

CMDB: definition, usage and benefits

As a result of the digital transition, companies must now manage an increasingly complex IT environment. To deal with...
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