[February 23, 2017] |
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Beyond ITSM: TeamDynamix Platform Experiences 3x Growth as College Campuses Prioritize Enterprise Service Management to Support Skyrocketing Demand
There are 21 million students enrolled in colleges and universities in
the U.S., each with an average of five connected devices. TeamDynamix
- which provides a SaaS (News - Alert)-based work management platform built
exclusively for higher education - has seen campus-wide adoption
of its enterprise service management applications triple in the last 12
months and use of the online portal double, as colleges try to keep pace
with the increased demand for self-service and shared knowledge. While
59 percent of schools self-rank as low on the IT
maturity scale, institutions are clamoring to find ways to get
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Demand for IT support on college campuses skyrockets as 21 million students bring an average of five connected devices to their colleges and universities. (Graphic: Business Wire)
TeamDynamix attributes its growth to broader adoption of service
management within campuses. College administrators are benefiting from
having multiple departments - such as IT, facilities, marketing,
HR, and media services - use one platform across campus. This animation
illustrates what a day in the life of on-campus service management can
be like at "Got-It-Together U."
"Businesses need our students to graduate with applied learning, ready
to work," explains Anita Barrett, ITS director of project management at Wichita
State University in Kansas. "We look to foster a campus of
collaboration and inventive thinking, helping each other learn. This
mission should transcend to how we think about information sharing and
service delivery. At WSU there are now 14 different groups using the
single platform for service management and we are just beginning. The
Service Catalog is growing organically as we want staff and faculty to
have a centralized portal for all requests in their terminology. The one
portal is flexible and allows for customization needed."
TeamDynamix notes three trends as colleges move up the maturity ladder:
1) Enterprise Service Management: While service management gained
its initial footing in IT, the concept and methodologies are expanding
to many other departments including facilities, residential life,
marketing, HR, media services and more. In 12 months, usage of the
TeamDynamix platform by multiple departments on the same campus tripled
largely due to lateral growth into additional campus departments.
2) Self-Service Adoption: Schools are looking to strengthen their
service portals to make it easier and faster for students to access
information and submit service requests. If support needs can be handled
with a self-service portal, a campus will save $20 per request over a
"level 1 support call" which requires individual handling. In the last
12 months, traffic on TeamDynamix service portal has doubled, indicating
that colleges are increasingly relying on self-service not only to save
costs but also to improve the student experience.
3) Knowledge Centered Support (KCS): By accessing a portal that
includes a knowledge base, students and staff can resolve many issues
based on others' experience, plus contribute content and leave feedback.
This collective wisdom, which is accessible on demand and often deemed
more relevant and effective, contributes to institutional knowledge that
campuses can leverage to support all users.
"We work with hundreds of campuses and departments and support over 20
million devices on North American campuses," explains Aaron Crane, vice
president of professional services at TeamDynamix. "Our focus is always
on process improvement and maturity. We may start with a low maturity
institution and roll out the platform for just the PMO and IT group, and
then over time we start to see the school optimize and expand usage. The
ability to move
up the maturity ladder increases when you have the right
technology to support the efforts."
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About TeamDynamix
TeamDynamix cloud-based work management software gives service
organizations in higher education the ability to align, work together,
and simplify their work management processes. TeamDynamix transforms IT
from order taker to strategic innovator. Colleges and universities use
TeamDynamix project portfolio and service management to simplify,
collaborate, and work. More at TeamDynamix.com,
@TDXBuzz,
LinkedIn.
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