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Your company has invested both time and money in creating a Service Desk.  Now you are faced with the challenge of maximizing the ROI.

SMA provides stand-alone and integrated solutions and services that will increase reach, value and footprint of your service management infrastructure while decreasing call times and overall cost per ticket.

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Option #1:  IT Asset Management             


Whether your requirement is license compliance, operating system migration, network mergers or improvements to your technology management, the key to any IT project's success is knowing what you have to work with. 

Centennial Discovery can be the key to building an accurate view of your IT assets!

Centennial Discovery includes a unique software recognition engine and LANProbe technology to discover installed software and hardware that resides on your network.  Also key is Centennial Discovery's ability to perform full system audits as frequently
as you need them, with virtually no impact on network performance.

Implementing Centennial Discovery doesn't require weeks or months -- many organizations are up and running in only a day or two.  And there are over four
million licenses installed around the world -- a true testimony to market acceptance!  Centennial Discovery easily integrates with help desk systems for advanced troubleshooting capabilities.

Key ROI Features:

Advanced troubleshooting capabilities leads to reduced call times!

  • Remote Auditing, no need for time consuming and costly "walk-arounds"
  • Discover locations of Hardware, Software and Files on the network
  • Physical location tracking and reporting (monitor location of hardware resources and be alerted when moved)
  • Multi-platform Support (deployment to Windows 98 - XP, Windows NT4, Unix, Mac OS/X, Citrix, Windows CE, Vista)

Change Management planning tools!

  • Web interface complete with “What if” wizards (planning tools enable accurate planning and costing of changes)
  • Easy to read and drill-down into graphs
  • Software Usage Profiling, save money by only licensing what you need
  • Alerts and reports for inventory changes

Centennial Discovery provides you with the information you need to make the right decisions about your organization’s IT needs, which in turn can help you:

  • Reduce expenditure on hardware and software by up to 25%

  • Decrease on-site engineer visits to PCs by 80%

  • Double the speed of Helpdesk problem resolution

  • Cut the cost of major projects by as much as 40%

  • Ensure compliance on your installed software products

SMA also has a unique integration between Centennial Discovery and HEAT, our
world-class service management application from FrontRange Solutions!

Learn more about Centennial Discovery.

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Option #2:  Mobilize Your Service Desk


Aeroprise
is for enterprise customers with IT Directors who are responsible for Service Management operations where “proactive” customer service is a high priority.

The value of interacting with critical enterprise data when employees are away from their desks and in the field is motivating forward thinking organizations to roll out tools for mobile interaction with service management applications. BlackBerry

Aeroprise products bridge the 'gap' between employees and their IT service management system by allowing enterprises to extend applications seamlessly to the field and enabling end users to personalize their mobile experience. Pioneering a unique approach in the marketplace, the Aeroprise product introduces personalization coupled with two-way actionable alerts and is installable by the customer in under an hour.

  • Provides IT Directors with the opportunity to improve service levels, wring out hidden costs and do more with less
  • Allows technicians to solve problems faster, provide a productivity dividend to employees in their company, and achieve a new degree of communication and responsiveness across the entire Service Management Lifecycle
  • Allows Administrators to provide end users with the ability to have personalized applications wirelessly without additional requests for help, taking the burden off their shoulders
  • The reach, value and footprint of your service management infrastructure is extended within your organization
  • Overall increase in customer satisfaction

Learn more about Aeroprise.

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Option #3: Help Desk Assessments

Since 1984, SMA has specialized in providing help desk and support center solutions to corporations, education, government and not-for-profit organizations.  SMA's solutions include help desk assessments, products, systems integration and consulting services to assist you in providing support to your customers and internal staff.

Our help desk consulting services include providing management consulting in the areas of requirements analyses, organizational and staff planning, developing service level agreements (SLA) and implementing help desk products.  Our staff expertise comes from years of experience managing and working in help desk environments.

Key to our success in this area is our process and solution-based orientation.  This approach includes the following:

  • Gaining a full understanding of the business need behind the technical requirements
  • Interviewing key management personnel to hear about "pain" points to be resolved
  • Mapping out workflows, service level requirements, and expectation levels
  • Assisting with the selection of technologies
  • Implementing selected solutions
  • Training and documenting processes an procedures

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Please email or call us at 914.686.0300 to find out more about how our structured methodology may be of use in your organization.
 

 
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