Colas, a subsidiary of Bouygues group, is the world leader in road construction. In the summer of 2021, the company deployed its first IT Chatbot in France with Konverso's Intelligent Virtual Agent.

It should not come as a surprise that the pandemic has impacted all aspects of the workplace, including the service desk. But behind the data, the full story of the deterioration of most of the IT Support metrics shows that Service Desk transformation can no longer wait. 

We asked Senior Executives to share their perspective on the evolution of end-user support and the Digital Transformation of the Service Desk. Today’s insights are from Rob Gwatkin, Global Senior Service Delivery Manager, in the Digital Service Management team at Veolia.

In previous blogs, I discussed the benefits of Natural Language Processing. Another field of interest is machine learning (ML). Machine learning (ML) holds significant promise for IT service management, for instance for incident categorization and routing. In this blog, I want to demystify machine learning and get your service desk team in the comfort zone. I will discuss about three use cases in IT Service Desk where Machine Learning generates tangible business benefits for customers.

You have invested time and money in the Atlassian Jira Service Management platform. You want to unlock more value, increase employee productivity and relieve your agents from recurring simple tasks. Here are 4 reasons Konverso’s Intelligent Virtual Agent brings more value to your Jira Service Management, with a user-centric and easy-to-use solution for Service Desk automation.

As part of Konverso's cooperation with Microsoft, we just announced the availability of Konverso's Intelligent Virtual Agents in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. We are happy to share this joint press release.

What is the current status?

While literature abounds about the digital transformation, a key department is still very far from having completed its digitalization: the IT help desk. 

Major investments are starting to be made in ITSM platforms and self-care, but most companies still need to follow through with intelligent automation and a data strategy. Both are necessary to really benefit from the digitalization of their helpdesk and service desks, increase employee productivity and enhance their business strategy. 

Here is the current situation of the support help desk and our insights on how to build your roadmap for the digitalization of your service desk.

You have invested time and money in your ServiceNow ITSM platform and need to accelerate your shift-left strategy ? Do you expect a bigger impact from your self-services and self-care on the efficiency of your IT helpdesk? Self-services and automation are only two of the many reasons Konverso’s clients choose to select our virtual agent.

All companies are looking for ways to optimize their business processes, add more self-care to save time and contribute to their shift-left strategy. But IT support is often overlooked as a way to achieve those productivity gains, while numerous studies show that slow IT support undermines all the productivity efforts.

For years, Chatbots (interacting with humans) and Robotic Process Automation (executing human tasks) have been working “side by side” to help enterprises streamline their operations. With Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, Robotic Process Automation is now merging into Cognitive Process Automation (CPA) that brings more context and knowledge to automation.