“A help desk is not a core competency of our IT organization. We realized it was hard to recruit, it was hard to retain, and our service wasn't stellar to begin with as we started to grow. So, that ...

People don’t know what they want until it’s shown to them, as the late Steve Jobs once said. This philosophy is the reason behind cloud-based IT automation vendor ServiceNow’s current expansion from ...

Whether you’re on the IT team at a company or work for a managed service provider (MSP), a help desk ticketing tool is a must for providing solid tech support. These applications give IT staff and end ...

Like a modern-day cavalry, the IT help desk comes to the rescue of frustrated computer users when a cursor freezes or an error message appears. The service ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. Outsourcing allows ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. It’s still the information technology (IT) dark ages despite portal, help desk toll-free ...

A help desk professional is someone that balances customer service skills with technical competency to assistant internal employees or external clients with computer or technological issues. Internal ...