Habitat Beats its Service Level Agreements with Numara FootPrints
The recent upgrade, part of a go to service 36 outlets in Habitat’s retail network will enable the group to take up again the current clear visibility of its service calls to meet the requirements of Habitat’s business. A key driver for Habitat’s IT team is that it expects to exceed its Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for a service desk that receives over 5,000 calls a year.
In choosing to upgrade Numara Way , Habitat considered alternative solutions, but concluded that they were no match for Numara Way cost effectiveness and ease of use, as Habitat Technical Operations Manager Edward Josh clarifies :
“We had a limited budget, and although we looked at solutions like BMC Remedy, it was too complicated and we’d have needed a specialist team to run it. With our previous version of Numara Way , we were able to set up the network system and configure it ourselves. And it was valuable to us that we were able to maintain that flexibility and ease of use.”
For four years, Habitat has been using Numara Way as its service management solution to monitor the operations of 36 stores employing 1,000 staff throughout the people . Since its first adoption, Numara Way has handled over 20,000 calls.
So for Josh, the scale of upgrading its service desk solution to the latest version of Numara Way was an simple one for a tiny IT team of 26 that supports everyone within Habitat in the UK.
“We originally chose Numara Software four years ago because it was a flexible, commanding solution, and we selected it to manage the faults and requests for support we hear from staff in our UK stores. On upgrading recently, we were able to set up the software from scratch with no problems at all. We were astonished at how simple it was to get the system exactly how we wanted it,” adds Josh.
What excites Habitat about the latest version of Numara Way is the ability to configure the reporting module to give the IT team exactly the information they require, whenever they want it.
“Getting that information to meet your requirements is all about configuring it correctly in the first house . We have configured Numara Way to tell us exactly what calls are open, at a glance from the front page. And the whole team can see that. This leads to a lot of banter among the team about who’s at the top with the most calls open and who has the heaviest workload,” continues Josh.
A key area of interest for Habitat is Numara Way ease of integration with Active Directory. If Habitat needs to make a user account for a new starter, the Numara Way Quick Call facility means everything is pre-configured for a new starter process: making an account, building their PC, and making their SAP and Windows accounts. The ease of call-logging by the Help Desk also means the team is more likely to take up again to log the calls efficiently and effectively.
Another benefit for Habitat is the ability to use Numara Way to make a assessment giving the IT team pointer on their performance from customers within the business. As a consequence it has enhanced the IT Service Team’s reputation for prompt support, exceeding its Service Level Agreements. Josh and his team have even been able to respond swiftly to a request from one of Habitat’s directors for more information on the group’s SAP implementation by making a class for SAP calls.
“Habitat could eventually do these things with other service solutions,” says Josh. “The problem is it would take two guys three weeks to come up with a solution that worked for us and probably cost us the earth in doing so. That’s what makes Numara Way so beneficial for us. We recognise its ease of use, flexibility and manageability.”
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