The NOC Is Always Ready To Fight The Last War

Diana Leggott, IT Service Operations Manager at Bournemouth University, shares why she chose a career in IT support and what it meant to be in the final for the Service Desk Manager of the Year category at the IT Service & Support Awards 2018.     What made you decide to enter the awards? I was

Saydur Rahman, Service Desk Analyst at Barnardo’s answers some questions about making it as a finalist for Service Desk Analyst of the Year at the IT Service and Support Awards 2018…       What made you decide to enter the awards?  I wanted to enter the awards as I want to see where I

Take a look into the future of artificial intelligence and meet the robot that everyone is talking about… Pepper, the humanoid robot will be joining us at conference this year as one of our breakout speakers, as well as making a few surprise appearances along the way.   Manufactured by SoftBank Robotics, Pepper was first introduced to

Mike Matthews, gives us an insight into Artificial Intelligence and preparing to speak at SDI18   When I was asked if I’d like to present to a conference audience about the impact of analytics, robotics and AI, I mused over a strap-line that would get people’s attention and came up with “They’re coming to take me away”.

By Claire Agutter, Director at Scopism   At this year’s SDI conference, I’m looking forward to sharing the story of VeriSM; the new service management approach for the digital age, and showing attendees how to use a range of standards and frameworks to overcome business challenges and get ‘digital ready’.   The background to VeriSM

And the finalists are…   Best Small Service Desk Arqiva Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Care Plus Group   Best Small Enterprise Managed Service Provider Air-IT Cardonet NetStar   Best Medium Service Desk  BullGuard MHR Sky Betting & Gaming   Best Medium/Large Enterprise Managed Service Provider Agilisys Boeing Defence UK Littlefish   Highly