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N-able launches N-gage IT Service Management scorecard.


N-able Technologies recently announced the launch of the latest addition to its line of Technology Intelligence (TI) solutions.

The N-gage IT Service Management Scorecard provides organizations with the ability to align IT operations with corporate objectives, enabling business and technology stakeholders Stakeholders

All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government.
 to prioritize resource and budget allocation. N-gage is derived from the IT Service Management (ITSM ITSM Information Technology Service Management
ITSM Information Technology Security Manager
ITSM Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus
ITSM Information Technology System Management
ITSM Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager
ITSM It Service Management
) standards of the IT Infrastructure Library, the globally recognized "defacto" quality standard for IT service management.

"Technology is the number two budget item in most organizations, yet the least understood, which has created an expectation gap between business and technology stakeholders," stated Mark Scott Mark Scott may refer to:
  • Mark Scott (composer) (b. 1984) American composer from Texas
  • Mark Scott (singer), semi-finalist on American Idol season 1
  • Mark Scott (radio host) (1936 - 2005) American talk show host
, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of N-able. "N-gage provides insight into the business value of IT to allow organizations to make decisions based on facts rather than conjecture CONJECTURE. Conjectures are ideas or notions founded on probabilities without any demonstration of their truth. Mascardus has defined conjecture: "rationable vestigium latentis veritatis, unde nascitur opinio sapientis;" or a slight degree of credence arising from evidence too weak or too ."

N-able's award-winning N-central service management reporting provides real-time information to N-gage to create and track a continuous improvement program to align IT with business. Areas of improvement identified by N-gage can be tracked and presented to management in intuitive reports designed with quantifiable IT metrics.

"The downturn in the technology sector has created an unprecedented need for companies to make the technology they have work better," stated Scott. "Our TI solutions provide our partners with the ability to improve existing service arrangements through the active process of measuring, managing, reporting and predicting IT resource allocation resource allocation Managed care The constellation of activities and decisions which form the basis for prioritizing health care needs  and performance."

N-gage is available exclusively through N-able's network of channel partners, consisting of system integrators and VARs across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The N-able Partner Certification program includes Web-based business and technical training on how to market, sell and support the product and also provides guidelines for implementing the N-able ITSM Assessment using N-gage.

N-able Technologies provides availability and performance management solutions that are designed specifically for IT service organizations. Our award-winning N-central network and systems management platform provides availability, performance reporting, and service level management. The service organizations we target include system integrators that provide outsourced support for multi-client IT infrastructures, and enterprise IT departments that provide remote management for multiple office locations. N-central is distributed through a channel-only strategy with a partner network that spans North America. Through Technology Intelligence, N-able provides insight into IT, the number-two budget item, to quantify the impact of IT operations on the return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) for both business and technology stakeholders.
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Publication:EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Dec 2, 2002
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