Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-13 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme If that is all that there is to the Service Catalog, then BMC has been blowing a lot of smoke about it in my opinion. Our CFG:ServiceCatalogAssoc contains the 53 Global CTI that our helpdesk defined before we

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-13 Thread McClure, Don
, 2009 7:52 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** Chris, Are you keying off the Site field to figure out which Tier 1 support group takes the incident? Jennifer Meyer From: Action Request System discussion list

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-13 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of McClure, Don Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:47 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme Hi Jennifer, I am answering this question for Chris Strauss. Short answer on keying off Site, is No. We

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-13 Thread Gareth Oliver
. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Meyer, Jennifer L Sent: Friday, 10 April 2009 12:24 AM To: ARSList Subject: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** Listers, Please help me with this one

Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
Listers, Please help me with this one. One of my management users got hold of an external source that said categorizations don't have to be used for routing. Somehow, the user misunderstood what the external source was attempting to communicate, grabbed hold of the elephant's tail, and is

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
Jennifer, you could show Mr. Elephant Tail (MET) books and best practices until the cows come home - if you haven't convinced him by now, you need someone else to fight this battle. I think I would suggest that you try these tactics: 1) Find the manager/director who uses the output data from

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
Of *Meyer, Jennifer L *Sent:* Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:24 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** Listers, Please help me with this one. One of my management users got hold of an external source that said categorizations don’t

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread McClure, Don
(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Nicky Madjarov Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:15 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** While we don't have the service affected identified in the incident, problem, change, etc. (end even if we

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread strauss
Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Nicky Madjarov Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:15 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** While we don't

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:31 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** I think it depends entirely on the tools that you have deployed. We do not have either SRM or Asset

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
Thank you, Chris, Rick, and Don for your feedback. Chris, Thank you for a very well-reasoned argument. I always value your input highly. As you said, there are a number of different ways to configure assignment in Remedy 7.X, and keying on CTI may not be the best method to use for every

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread strauss
Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:42 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** I can see how this is helpful when you have staff planted in different

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:54 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme Our system works for us since the vast majority of issues for faculty and staff are handled by their distributed computer support groups, where all

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread McClure, Don
, 2009 2:23 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** This may be an excellent opportunity to compare and contrast the two approaches for organizational functions. If I understand this correctly, I and Shawn have central help desks that rely heavily

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Meyer, Jennifer L
, 2009 2:23 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme ** This may be an excellent opportunity to compare and contrast the two approaches for organizational functions. If I understand this correctly, I and Shawn have central help desks that rely heavily