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20 Employee Services to Automate: Finance

04/24/18 As any business grows, these processes become more complicated and more frequent. The good news is, you can build streamlined workflows for financial requests, complete wi…

20 Employee Services to Automate: Marketing

04/19/18 Marketing is an important service provider to all employees. They create a variety of customer-facing resources. The service catalog can help create efficient processes fo…

How to Select the Right Queries to Optimize

04/18/18 Why is selecting the right queries to optimize so important? There are several reasons. Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish Look at the forest, not just the trees, and optimize glob…

Using Data to Improve Employee Services (Part 2)

04/17/18 As an internal service provider, your job is to give them everything they need to perform at the highest level, with as little friction as possible. This is employee servi…

Using Data to Improve Employee Services (Part 1)

04/12/18 There are a seemingly infinite number of ways to use data in service delivery, and people think of new ones every day. Here are two methods you can use to collect and leve…

Key metrics for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL monitoring

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Collecting RDS metrics from PostgreSQL databases

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PostgreSQL RDS monitoring with Datadog

This article details how to monitor Amazon RDS MySQL instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's integration to collect key MySQL metrics like connection counts,…

Make Reporting a Part of Your IT Service Catalog

04/11/18 With an effective employee service management strategy, you can ensure that internal resources are aligned across departments. The service catalog lets you create a menu o…

20 Employee Services to Automate: Facilities

04/10/18 Though it’s a bit cliché to “expect the unexpected,” that’s what we ask of the facilities department. The service catalog will help them do just that, building out workflo…

Key metrics for Amazon EBS monitoring

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Collecting Amazon EBS metrics

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