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From Spreadsheets to ITAM: What, When and Why You Gain

In the early stages of managing IT assets, spreadsheets seem like a natural choice. They're widely available, familiar, flexible, and easy to start with. Almost every IT team has, at some point, relied on Excel or Google Sheets to track laptops, monitors, software licenses, and serial numbers. But...

Jana Mancikova

7.8.2025

6 minutes of reading

How ALVAO Can Enhance The IT Service Management Industry

One of the most reliable websites for software and academic reviews, Research.com, has evaluated ALVAO's characteristics and capacity to offer customers an unparalleled IT service management solution.

Adam Sima

6.8.2025

5 minutes of reading

How to choose the most suitable ITSM solution for your needs

Are you dissatisfied with your current solution wanting a change? Are you constantly firefighting in IT and is management finally giving you the green light to make changes? This article can serve as a guide to help you consider all fundamental aspects of choosing the right ITSM tool.

Jana Mancikova

2.1.2024

5 minutes of reading

What's the difference between ITAM and CMDB?

IT Service Management (ITSM) offers various terms that often lead to confusion and misunderstanding. Much like other fields and industries, emerging trends are sprouting like mushrooms after a rainstorm, accompanied by new terms and definitions that can be rather confusing.

Jana Mancikova

5.12.2023

4 minutes of reading

ALVAO is part of the Microsoft Copilot Ecosystem

Since the beginning, we have been developing ALVAO in line with Microsoft's principles and strategies. Of course, during the past year and especially this year we have been closely following the developments at Microsoft and their products. And it was in cooperation with Microsoft experts that we...

Jan Prudík

23.11.2023

3 minutes of reading

CritSit in IT Service Desk

CritSits stands for critical situations that require immediate attention to prevent serious consequences. In this article, we will explain what the term ‘CritSit’ means in terms of IT service desk, and then we’ll look into why a team gets into CritSit mode, what measures we can take to avoid it,...

Mukesh Sharma

17.11.2023

4 minutes of reading

How ITSM can help improve customer satisfaction

Customer Satisfaction is the most important metric that measures the performance of a service desk team.

Mukesh Sharma

6.11.2023

2 minutes of reading

ITSM is the key to sustainable IT

Sustainability is a topic writ large in most areas of our society these days. Companies and organizations are aware of this and take environmental goals into account in their long-term strategies. This of course relates to changes in work practices at all levels, including IT, which produces around...

Adam Sima

24.10.2023

7 minutes of reading

ALVAO for Teams integration: Optimizing IT support with fresh features

Exciting news! We've been working hard on enhancing the integration of ALVAO Service Desk into Microsoft Teams to bring you a seamless IT support and user experience

Jana Mancikova

13.10.2023

1 minute of reading

User experience of ALVAO IT Service Management platform

Being associated with the service desk for over a decade, I have had the opportunity to work on different ITSM tools such as Remedy 6.5, 7.1, ICD, Maximo, and ServiceNow. ALVAO was the most different among all that I have worked with so far. So, let's look at some of the key features of ALVAO that...

Mukesh Sharma

2.10.2023

3 minutes of reading

ALVAO has successfully passed the SOC 2, type II evaluation process

We are pleased to announce that ALVAO SaaS - cloud services have successfully passed the six-month evaluation process of SOC 2, type II. This audit confirmed that the set-up and follow-up of our policies and procedures for managing security, privacy, availability and confidentiality meet the...

Jana Silarova

14.8.2023

2 minutes of reading