Giva® today announced a significant milestone in surpassing BMC® Track-It!™ by Numara Software head-to-head in the competitive IT service desk market. Giva benefits organizations with a strong focus on increasing first contact resolution, improving customer satisfaction, decreasing call volume with root cause analysis and exceeding service level agreements (SLAs). Giva's visual reporting tools make identifying trends and patterns easier and quicker and with less time building, running, sharing and reviewing reports. Based on comparisons from customers that have utilized both service management packages, Giva's cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution has moved to a leadership role for IT service management for law firms, healthcare institutions and other high visibility professional firms.

"There are many significant reasons why Giva was selected over other vendors, but the biggest differentiator is that the Giva user interface is uncomplicated, uncluttered, clean and extremely easy to use," said Floyd Withrow, Chief Information Officer.

For example, Gordon & Rees, which provides IT technical support to 1200 employees in 27 offices, used BMC Track-It! for 6 years before switching to Giva. Their reported results included an 80% increase in capturing after hours calls, a 70% increase in support issue management productivity, and a 60% increase in meeting service level agreements (SLAs), among other significant improvements.

"There are many significant reasons why Giva was selected over other vendors, but the biggest differentiator is that the Giva user interface is uncomplicated, uncluttered, clean and extremely easy to use," said Floyd Withrow, Chief Information Officer, Gordon & Rees. "My team has had a 70% increase in support issue management productivity from using the Giva dashboard, easy service request input and real-time reports. We have increased meeting our service level agreements by over 60%. Our Level 1 agents have increased their daily service request management productivity over 50% by using Giva as compared to BMC Track-It! As CIO, Giva has been an enormous help to my user support managers, training coordinators and myself. Giva allows me to deploy and justify my staffing and resource plans with metrics, trends and reports." [Click to download the case study.]

"Our real-time reports and dashboards are a significant Giva differentiator and an area in which Giva will continue to provide radical innovation," said Ron Avignone, founder of Giva, Inc. "We've built a highly differentiated cloud-based product that provides an extraordinary and easy to use experience. Giva's real-time reports and dashboards can be built without any effort, and our products can be customized without any consultants."

About Giva:

Founded in 1999, Giva was among the first companies to provide a suite of applications specifically architected for the public cloud. Now, with over a decade of refinements including thousands of enhancements, the Giva Service Management™ Suite is the most customer feedback driven cloud computing suite for the ITIL Help Desk, Customer Service/Call Center and Service Desk. Visual reporting, management dashboards and a radically intuitive service request design, make the Giva Service Management™ Suite highly differentiated from all other solutions. Customizations are all point and click with no programming or consulting necessary so Giva delivers a substantially lower total cost of ownership solution. Giva is a private company headquartered in Santa Clara, California serving delighted customers worldwide.

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Giva eHelpDeskT is a 100 percent cloud based, ITIL-compliant IT help desk solution that features:

• Service level agreements
• Automatic escalation rules engine
• Customizable fields, screen, and options
• Rich text formatting of requests, with the ability to attach screen shots and files to service requests
• Automatic reminder of questions to ask, scripts, and standard operating procedures
• Natural language, keyword, and Boolean search engine
• Automated email-to-ticket creation
• Parent/child service requests for high volume incidents
• Reports can easily be configured, run, saved, shared, exported or emailed on-the-fly
• More than 70 pre-defined, customizable reports
• Customer satisfaction surveys
• Self-service Web portal
• Multiple independent service desks for use by other departments
• Seamless integration with Active Directory or an HR database with REST based API
• Seamless integration with Giva eKnowledgeManager™, Giva eChangeManager™, Giva eServiceDesk™, Giva eCustomerService™, Giva eAssetManager™, Giva eSoftwareManager™, and Giva eAutoDiscovery™
• ITIL-compliant
  
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Here are some screen shots of opening a service request in Giva eHelpDesk:

Select a Root Cause:

Root Cause selected:

Select a Status of Closed:

Select an Assignee:

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Benefits

Giva eHelpDesk is a 100 percent cloud based, ITIL-compliant IT help desk solution that:

• Increases first-call resolution by building a knowledge base that captures lessons learned
• Reduces call length by auto completing, streamlining routine tasks, providing trouble-shooting tools on a single screen, and maintaining parent/child requests for high call volume incidents
• Increases customer satisfaction by speeding problem resolution and providing consistent, fast answers
• Boosts SLA compliance by automating SLA breach notifications based on escalation business rules
• Decreases request resolution times by providing tools that help quickly diagnose the cause of problems and rapidly route requests
• Minimizes the number of escalated requests by tracking problem response and resolution status verses established standards
• Decreases call volume and identifies opportunities for business process improvement with root cause analysis
• Increases efficiency by defining and enforcing standard service management business processes
• Increases agent productivity by providing automated workflow and escalation
• Speeds business decisions by delivering accurate, real-time reports
• Optimizes staffing levels by providing trend reports
• Helps ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and reduces business risk by providing complete audit trails

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Here are some screen shots of opening a service request in Giva eHelpDesk:

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Saint Elizabeth Health Care has increased the productivity of its IT service desk team by approximately 40% by implementing the Giva Service Desk Management Suite. Productivity improvements come from automation that eliminates many manual steps, providing instant visibility to hot spots and critical issues and better measurement of service desk team productivity.

Saint Elizabeth's team of 6,500 health care professionals work out of the company's 25 offices located across Canada or remotely from their homes. The IT service desk team is busy nearly 24X7 ensuring the security, performance and application availability of the company's suite of private cloud applications. Saint Elizabeth made a long term partnership commitment to the Giva Service Management Suite including Service Desk, Knowledge Base, Hardware and Software Asset Management, Asset Auto Discovery and Change Management modules.

"The Giva Home Page Dashboard saves each service desk team member 2.5 hours per day by providing constant visibility to hot spots and highlighting critical issues with charts, metrics and analytics." David Burne, IT Leader, Saint Elizabeth Health Care

"We selected Giva because it provides a competitively price bundle of services with better features and functions to meet our requirements," said David Burne, IT Leader for Saint Elizabeth Health Care. "Our IT team was able to configure and fully customize the Giva cloud without consultants in only 10% of the time it would take to configure and install a similar customized software suite. Giva provides a well-thought out selection of meaningful reports and provides the ability to highly customize them or build and share new reports with little effort." [Click to download the case study.]

Saint Elizabeth went live using Giva after only a week of internal work. The company estimates that it will realize a 50% lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over a three year period considering initial and lifetime cost such as hardware, software, maintenance, training, administration, upgrades, support, integrations, future customizations, etc.

"Giva has significantly improved our workflow through automation that eliminates many manual steps," Burne said. "The service desk's Home Page Dashboard saves each service desk team member 2.5 hours per day by providing constant visibility to hot spots and highlighting critical issues with charts, metrics and analytics."

Additional IT service desk productivity improvements come from the fact that issues are more quickly assigned to an owner and employees can see responses to questions instantly and take immediate follow-up action. Hot issues are now instantly visible to the IT service desk team. "As IT leader, my own productivity has increased over 40% because Giva saves time monitoring the IT service desk," Burne said.

About Giva:

Giva is an award-winning provider of cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for the ITIL Help Desk,  and the Service Desk. Visual reporting, management dashboards and an intuitive design, make the Giva Service Management™ Suite very powerful and at the same time very easy to use. Customizations are all point and click (i.e., no programming necessary) so the result is a dramatically lower total cost of ownership when compared to other products that require programmers and trained consultants. Giva is a private company headquartered in Santa Clara, California serving delighted customers worldwide.

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Phone: 408.260.9000

Giva® today announced a significant milestone in surpassing BMC® FootPrints ITSM™ by Numara Software head-to-head in the competitive IT service desk market.

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) November 29, 2012 - Giva® today announced a significant milestone in surpassing BMC® FootPrints ITSM™ by Numara Software head-to-head in the competitive IT service desk market. Giva benefits organizations with a strong focus on increasing first contact resolution, improving customer satisfaction, decreasing call volume with root cause analysis and exceeding service level agreements (SLAs). Giva's visual reporting tools make identifying trends and patterns easier and quicker and with less time building, running, sharing and reviewing reports. Based on word of mouth comparisons from customers that have utilized both service management packages, Giva's cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution has moved to a leadership role for IT service management for law firms, healthcare institutions and other high visibility professional firms.

"With Giva, we have increased the customer satisfaction of our attorneys and staff by over 60% and they are happier than they have ever been with IT during my 16-year tenure as CIO," said Ken Adams, Chief Information Officer, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

For example, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., which provides IT technical support to 500 attorneys and staff in 8 geographically dispersed offices, used BMC FootPrints ITSM for over 10 years before switching to Giva. Their reported results included a 70% increase in IT productivity, a 65% increase in first call resolution, and a 60% increase in customer satisfaction, among other significant improvements.

"We have increased the customer satisfaction of our attorneys and staff by over 60% and they are happier than they have ever been with IT during my 16-year tenure as CIO," said Ken Adams, Chief Information Officer, Miles & Stockbridge P.C. "My team has had a 70% increase in IT productivity by using the Giva dashboards and real-time reports. Our first contact resolution has increased by 65%, which has also been assisted by Giva's helpful knowledgebase solution. Giva has implemented their workflows, grids, charts and other monitoring tools in an intuitive, slick and simple way, similar to the Apple Computer iPhone and iPad user interface design." [Click to download the case study.]

"Our real-time reports and dashboards are a significant Giva differentiator and an area in which Giva will continue to provide radical innovation," said Ron Avignone, founder of Giva, Inc. "We've built a highly differentiated cloud-based product that provides an extraordinary and easy to use experience. Giva's real-time reports and dashboards can be built without any effort, and our products can be customized without any consultants."

About Giva:

Giva is an award-winning provider of cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for the ITIL Help Desk, Customer Service/Call Center and the Service Desk. Visual reporting, management dashboards and an intuitive design, make the Giva Service Management™ Suite very powerful and at the same time very easy to use. Customizations are all point and click (i.e., no programming necessary) so the result is a dramatically lower total cost of ownership when compared to other products that require programmers and trained consultants. Giva is a private company headquartered in Santa Clara, California serving delighted customers worldwide.

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Email: [email protected]
Phone: 408.260.9000

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Segment A: Opening a Quick Ticket service request in Giva

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"With Giva, service requests can be created extremely fast.

After typing in the name, I just press enter.

Jim says the network printer is jammed. I'll quickly create a service request using a Quick Ticket for common recurring problems.

All fields are automatically completed.

All fields are all automatically entered with preconfigured defaults which can be changed on-the-fly. I'll raise the severity level to "Business Impacted" since Jim said many people cannot use this printer.

The Desktop service group members will automatically be notified and they can access the notification from their smart phones.

It's that easy and fast to create a service request.

Segment B: Opening an ordinary service request in Giva

I'll open another service request.

Dave's a senior partner and marked a VIP and there's also more customization to his profile. With the "View Recent Tickets" I can quickly determine if this is a new issue or one already logged.

The nature of request is a customizable category menu allowing unlimited categories and subcategories. I can use my mouse or type and tab to select.

An article with a problem and solution is presented. This solves Dave's problem so I give it good ratings and make it my resolution.

I'll quickly finish the call by completing a few fields.

Now, I'll also select a root cause, change status to closed, assign the ticket to myself.

In this section all the important information is well summarized, easy to view or edit and always right in front of me!

Finally, I'll click create and be brought back to the home page.

I'll open another service request.

Mary has a question about creating a table of authorities in WORD. I'll select the correct nature of request.

A form with some tips is presented. Unfortunately, this does not help me, but I'll answer the 3 questions and save this to the ticket.

I'll search the more extensive knowledgebase for an answer.

This knowledge article looks like the right solution. I'll email this to Mary.

I'll copy this article as the resolution to this ticket.

I'll finish up by rating the article.

And, if I had any feedback on the article I could post it in this section.

The 2 documents from the knowledge article have been saved.

Since Mary is very busy, I'll send an email to her and copy her assistant, Jane Wells, just to make sure that Many received the important documents from the knowledge article.

I'll quickly close the ticket with just a few more steps.

There is much more to lean about Giva so look at our other videos and customer success stories on the web site."

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) October 16, 2012

Giva® today announced a significant milestone in surpassing FrontRange Solutions HEAT® head-to-head in the competitive IT service desk market. Giva benefits organizations with a strong focus on increasing first contact resolution, improving customer satisfaction, decreasing call volume with root cause analysis and exceeding service level agreements (SLAs). Giva's visual reporting tools make identifying trends and patterns easier and quicker and with less time building, running, sharing and reviewing reports. Based on word of mouth comparisons from customers that have utilized both service management packages, Giva's cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution has moved to a leadership role for IT service management for law firms, healthcare institutions and other high visibility professional firms.

For example, Sante Health System, which provides IT technical support to physicians and staff across 16 geographically dispersed sites used FrontRange HEAT for many years before switching to Giva. Their reported results included a 40% increase in the productivity of IT personnel traveling between sites, a 45% increase in the number of calls logged, and a 50% increase in productivity using custom forms, among other significant improvements.

"The Giva dashboard has made me 80% more productive as compared to when I was using FrontRange HEAT," said Juan Carlo Muro, IT Director, Sante Health System. "The Giva reporting module is more comprehensive and an order of magnitude easier to use when compared with FrontRange HEAT reporting. As a result of productivity increases, we have also experienced a 60% increase in meeting our internal resolve-time service level agreements." [Click to download the case study.]

"Our real-time reports and dashboards are a significant Giva differentiator and an area in which Giva will continue to provide radical innovation," said Ron Avignone, founder of Giva, Inc. "We've built a highly differentiated cloud-based product that provides an extraordinary and easy to use experience. Giva's real-time reports and dashboards can be built without any effort, and our products can be customized without any consultants."

About Giva:
Giva is an award-winning provider of cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for the ITIL Help Desk, Customer Service/Call Center and the Service Desk. Visual reporting, management dashboards and an intuitive design, make the Giva Service Management™ Suite very powerful and at the same time very easy to use. Customizations are all point and click (i.e., no programming necessary) so the result is a dramatically lower total cost of ownership when compared to other products that require programmers and trained consultants. Giva is a private company headquartered in Santa Clara, California serving delighted customers worldwide. For more information, please visit https://www.givainc.com.

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Santa Clara, California (PRWEB) October 16, 2012

Giva® today announced a significant milestone in surpassing Salesforce.com Service Cloud® head-to-head in the competitive service cloud market. Giva benefits organizations with a strong focus on increasing first contact resolution, improving customer satisfaction, decreasing call volume with root cause analysis and exceeding service level agreements (SLAs). Giva's visual reporting tools make identifying trends and patterns easier and quicker and with less time building, running, sharing and reviewing reports. Based on word of mouth comparisons from customers that have utilized both service management packages, Giva's cloud computing SaaS (software-as-a-Service) solution has moved to a leadership role for IT service management for law firms, healthcare institutions and other high visibility professional firms.

For example, EDIMS, which provides 24x7 customer service to over 2,000 physicians and staff used Salesforce.com Service Cloud for three years before switching to Giva. Their reported results included a 45% increase in productivity, a 50% decrease in time required to open cases, and an 80% decrease in time to generate and approve knowledge articles, among other significant improvements.

"With Giva, it now takes 50% less time to open a case, so our agent productivity is effectively doubled when the call queue is full and the phones are busy ringing," said Chris Jerry, EDIMS Support Center Manager. "We used to spend over 24 hours per month working with the reports to extract data. Now, we spend about 15 minutes per month generating reports and the information quality is superior. Giva is the "Apple Computer" of cloud customer service applications." [Click to download the case study.]

"Unparalleled ease of use is a significant Giva differentiator and an area in which Giva will continue to provide radical innovation," said Ron Avignone, founder of Giva, Inc. "Giva can be deployed in just days and agents can learn to be fluent in just one hour. By providing a more streamlined customer service tool, we are confident that we will continue to win over the service cloud."

About Giva:
Giva is an award-winning provider of cloud computing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for the ITIL Help Desk, Customer Service/Call Center and the Service Desk. Visual reporting, management dashboards and an intuitive design, make the Giva Service Management™ Suite very powerful and at the same time very easy to use. Customizations are all point and click (i.e., no programming necessary) so the result is a dramatically lower total cost of ownership when compared to other products that require programmers and trained consultants. Giva is a private company headquartered in Santa Clara, California serving delighted customers worldwide. For more information, please visit https://www.givainc.com.

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Email: pr(at)givainc(dot)com
Phone: 408.260.9000