Category : Crow Canyon Blog

22 08, 2016

ITSM: Adding Structure When It’s Needed

2024-12-09T04:27:58-08:00August 22nd, 2016|

IT Service Management (ITSM) is all about helping organizations align their IT services with their business needs. It is an approach to IT Management that seeks to make the delivery of IT services efficient, process-driven, and proactive. Key ITSM concepts Increasing Efficiency in IT organizations The driving mission of ITSM is to increase efficiency. Management [...]

11 08, 2016

Et Tu, Delta?

2024-07-26T03:47:58-07:00August 11th, 2016|

This past week, an airline company with a reputation for punctuality, and with one of the best reliability records in the industry, was left dumbfounded as over 1,000 flights worldwide were grounded. No, we're not talking about Southwest Airlines. This time, it's Delta. Like Southwest, the cause is IT-related: a power control module failed. Also [...]

9 08, 2016

Southwest Airlines Favoring Profits over IT Infrastructure?

2025-03-19T13:52:12-07:00August 9th, 2016|

The four unions representing Southwest Airlines’ pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and ground operations are calling for new leadership at Southwest. All four unions, which represent nearly 80 percent of the airline’s 50,000 employees, voted “no confidence” in the airline’s CEO Gary Kelly and COO Mike Van de Ven. In a joint statement issued August [...]

26 07, 2016

Southwest’s Summer Screwup

2024-07-26T04:00:10-07:00July 26th, 2016|

There we were in Oakland airport last Thursday, having dutifully arrived at 5 am for our 6 am Southwest Airlines flight to Salt Lake City. I had heard about the computer “glitch” that Southwest had the day before, and saw the long lines and bleary-eyed people when we arrived at the airport, but I [...]

18 07, 2016

User Experience Improvements Come to SharePoint

2021-01-21T10:02:35-08:00July 18th, 2016|

Microsoft SharePoint can do awesome things, but its interface can be quite unintuitive at times. The result has been that while the number of SharePoint licenses has increased rapidly year-over-year, end-user adoption rates have not followed suit. By contrast, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools has evolved into a leader in intuitive, user-friendly [...]

7 07, 2016

Implementing a SharePoint-based Help Desk That Meets ITIL Service Desk Standards

2025-01-31T05:10:32-08:00July 7th, 2016|

In the late 1980s, the UK government decided to tackle the need for standardization in the burgeoning IT industry. Over time, this set of standards coalesced into a program called IT Service Management (ITSM) and, within that program, a specific subset of practices evolved that is now referred to as ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library. [...]

24 06, 2016

“It’s Our Policy to Have Policies

2024-07-23T04:48:37-07:00June 24th, 2016|

Keeping documentation on policies, procedures, and guidelines up-to-date – and making sure the responsible employees read and abide by them – is one of the major headaches of many businesses. It is also critical to meeting regulatory and compliance requirements as well as avoiding fines from overseeing agencies. Where does this apply? Just about [...]

15 06, 2016

Have you heard about Microsoft Flow and PowerApps?

2021-07-01T10:41:03-07:00June 15th, 2016|

The new SharePoint Development Framework was not the only news to come out of San Francisco at Microsoft's Future of SharePoint event last month -- Microsoft Flow and Microsoft PowerApps also made their appearance. These new tools are aimed at increasing business efficiency, particularly in terms of automation. Going with the Flow Microsoft Flow [...]

2 06, 2016

Microsoft Introduces new SharePoint Development Framework

2021-01-21T10:17:12-08:00June 2nd, 2016|

What is the new “SharePoint Development Framework” that Microsoft talked about at its Future of SharePoint event May 4th? What value does it bring to SharePoint development – and ultimately, to businesses that use SharePoint? Many Technet and blog articles delve into the programming particulars of this new framework, and we will leave them [...]

18 05, 2016

Office Graph Takes Center Stage

2023-07-13T13:27:24-07:00May 18th, 2016|

On May 4th, Microsoft hosted the Future of SharePoint event in San Francisco, which coincided with the general release of SharePoint 2016. The overall purpose was to highlight what users can expect in SharePoint's future and to get them enthused about the overall direction of SharePoint. Office Graph Moves Front and Center One key [...]

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