Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) uses their IT Help Desk to Improve Service Delivery
Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College (ABAC) uses their IT Help Desk software to provide and manage a wide range of services for the college. ABAC is part of the 26 member University System of Georgia and supports more than 4000 students from 155 counties. Located in Tifton Georgia, it also supports four other sites for instructional purposes.
ABAC was looking for a modern Service Desk to meet their present day needs. They wanted to move away from their On Premise Help Desk solution as it had severe limitations one of which was that it could be accessed only when they were on campus.
This did not work well for remote users and the students. As part of their search , they tried a couple of different products that met their basic needs but were clunky and provided a bad user experience. End users did not like putting in tickets as the system was not user friendly. A major requirement was to find a solution that was user friendly so everyone could put in a ticket at any site or any location that they supported and would also be easy for students to use. They then did a proof of concept of BOSSDesk the cloud based ITSM solution and it turned out to be a great solution for their environment.
Starting with the single sign on and easy login to the customizable dashboards, BOSSDesk is a winner. The dashboard was very easy to configure with customizable widgets like tickets, problems , changes, software contracts, approvals and so on with all information available at your fingertips. Every user could customize the dashboard the way they wanted it . It turned out to be very useful for management in making business decisions.
Allen Saylor, CTO & CISO at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College shares his thoughts on how BOSSDesk benefits them. According to him, one of the major benefits for the college is the Service Catalog and the easy to create forms. Depending on the type of user you can control who sees what form and you can set permissions based on roles. Students have access to certain forms that they use. The forms can be built with relevant fields based on the info needed and this has been of great benefit as the earlier solutions they used had one form with standard fields and users did not like it. the whole layout is neat and clean and building a form is very easy.
Allen loves the solution and had this to share on why he thinks he made a wise decision.
"BOSS listens to the customer and comes up with new solutions to make the process easy. Routing and reports is a plus. We had four other help desk tools earlier and either they had one form and you had to pay the company to build an extra form or in another solution you had to go to three different screens to complete building one form.
BOSSDesk service catalog is a simple drag and drop. Easy to set up fields, route on them and add drop downs. It allowed us to grow and add service catalogs as needed. It was so easy and end users loved it so much that we expanded it to additional teams like Digital Media services. We gave them permissions to design the forms the way they wanted. It made the team very efficient. We use it for Employee Onboarding.
Other cool features we love are the canned responses where we can send messages to everyone. You can add a task and assign people to complete the task. The Approval boards make things very efficient. You just type in the user you need approval from. You have a log of all events for your records. There are tons of different things the solution can do. That's something we really enjoyed and we are learning more."
Allen is all praise for BOSSDesk. In his words,
"It is a blessing to have a tool that works really really well for us. Fantastic tool that helped our department grow and helped other departments as well in our organization. If I had to do it all over again I would have found BOSSDesk sooner before trying other products.
I looked at one other product while looking for a solution and made a mistake and picked the other product that cost me money and time. I wish I had done some more research. I lost two good techs because of the other product and wasted a lot of money and time. I would have picked this one first."
Allen Saylor, CTO & CISO at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College discusses on how this was accomplished and shows examples of services offered:
You will learn how:
An IT Help Desk can be used to provide and manage a wide range of services including HR on-boarding, digital media, digital signage, website changes, student help, and much more.
Easily service requests can be automated and built quickly to address client requirements - no coding skills needed - all drag & drop
Reports and Dashboards with configurable widgets provide immediate metrics for the management team.