Barracuda ECHOplatform for MSPs vs. ServiceNow IT Operations Management

At the current state, still recommend but would give them a warning of the hardships and quirky nature of the platform.

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[...] is changing the way our internal support staff (not only in the IT field) work and enhancing the experience for employees seeking IT assistance through ServiceNow IT Operation Management. We have moved the usual and personalized IT tools and functions from [...] service-desk to ServiceNow IT Operations Management. These advancements have sparked innovation in various aspects of our IT support management, such as enhancing accessibility, managing incidents, optimizing IT workflows and procedures, enforcing service level agreements (SLAs), incorporating AI/ML technology, utilizing virtual agents, streamlining automation, and sharing knowledge throughout the support team via data visualization, monitoring, and reporting. In brief, our collaboration with ServiceNow IT Operations Management is enhancing the effectiveness of our internal system and benefiting our shared clients.

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• Centralized console for all Intronis backup software installations
• Linked connection to the Barracuda Cloud Control console to manage essentials and backup appliances
• Alerting from backup software can range from simple to complex as well as schedule options

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• The centralized dashboard allows us to keep track of production incidents as they come in, and allow us to view and sort them based on severity, making sure it's tracked
• The read/edit access and role granting process is straightforward, meaning that only the right people can change /update the statuses of incidents without unintended consequences
• With AI driven classification, it's easy to track outage impacts

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• the expanding of the roles that are allowed, just 4 seems to be too limiting
• integration of the campus should be self service not a email and wait for 24 hour turn around

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• Scan network is limited to their discovery tool, which is costly
• Integration to jamf and ubunto tools
• Agents TCO
• integration to password management tools which are critical for successful scans

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ServiceNow's IT Operations Management (ITOM) includes
features such as discovery, service mapping, event management, automation, and
a user interface designed to be navigable. Users can bookmark important areas
for quick access. Provides very good visibility of assets. The UI is little
difficult but once got used to is very good to use.

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Carbonite is a very good product but Intronis is much better suited for businesses. Acronis is a very comparable product especially as it does such a good job of image level backups of machines.

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BMC was our legacy system before deploying ServiceNow. It's time had passed for us as it couldn't really keep up with our move to cloud and the number of services we were using. The cost kept getting higher, especially with all of the customization we had to do. Over the years, just got unwieldy. We still use Splunk for raw data and log analysis, but we upgraded to ServiceNow event management and the Loom system log analytics. We had Loom before ServiceNow bought them, but it's nice it's all on one platform for us. Splunk at times had so much info, we didn't know where to start, but ServiceNow gives us a great starting point.

• This is a great solution for backups when a backup appliance is not necessary (or within economic range).
• Local NAS replication can provide faster recovery of data in the event of a catastrophy.

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• Saved 20% time than last year for customer issues management
• Estimated time of resolving issue increased
• Nearly 1000+ article got created on 1 year

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