Showing posts with label Kevin Donovan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin Donovan. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Autotask Business Management Platform Fully Integrated With Servoyant

Customers Take Advantage of Consolidated Workflow via Live Lookups
 
EAST GREENBUSH, NY - September 22, 2011 - Autotask Corporation, the world’s leading provider of hosted IT business management software, today announced that it is now fully integrated with Servoyant software from Servoyant, LLC, a leading SaaS provider of IT Management software solutions which offer simplified monitoring, management, proactive automation and analytics to help users prevent problems and keep client systems running smoothly. The integration streamlines and automates asset gathering, service ticketing management, account administration, system troubleshooting and makes it easier for managed services providers (MSPs) to keep clients’ network systems running smoothly.
 
“We are excited to have created such a powerful integration with Servoyant’s intuitive IT monitoring and management services,” said Kevin Donovan, Autotask Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Services. “We’re committed to ensuring that Autotask supports integrations with the broadest array of industry-leading tools so that our users can select and implement the solutions that best meet their clients’ needs.”

In addition to simplifying and automating workflow, the Autotask Servoyant integration is bi-directional. Asset information retrieved via Servoyant’s automated discovery is fully synchronized with Autotask configuration Items, including user defined field mappings. Service tickets are automatically created in Autotask from alerts generated from Servoyant’s flexible resolution profiles, or can be created manually, directly from Servoyant. Ticket status information from Autotask flows directly into Servoyant to ensure consistent and reliable workflow between alerts and tickets, and ticket data is instantly available in Servoyant’s reporting suite – including incident response and resolution time – to ensure superior user-monitoring practices and real-time analysis.

“Integration with leading providers of complementary products like Autotask is key to our strategy at Servoyant,” said Enrique Krajmalnik, Co-Founder and CEO of Servoyant. “The implementation is simple to use yet feature-rich. It provides users of the two platforms a consolidated workflow that results in business process efficiencies and better customer service.”

“We continue to look for the best technologies to help our franchisees run their business and support their customer’s Managed Services,” said Chip Reaves, CEO of Computer Troubleshooters USA, Inc. “The integration of Autotask and Servoyant is a great example of how we’re able to offer best practices. We can now provide Computer Troubleshooters a streamlined way to resolve customer issues before they become problematic, while maintaining the proper documentation of incident to ticket to resolution so we can continue to prove our value to the customers.”

About Servoyant
Servoyant provides easy-to-deploy, intuitive, cost-effective cloud-based tools for efficient monitoring and management of heterogeneous technology infrastructures and devices. In 1998, the team behind Servoyant began providing remote monitoring and management services to enterprises. As the business grew and higher demand for MSP services increased, the scope of Servoyant grew into a full monitoring, management, automation, and reporting platform. After successfully introducing Servoyant to other service providers, the team decided to commercially launch Servoyant in 2010.

About Autotask Corporation
Autotask Corporation provides the world's leading hosted IT business management software to streamline and optimize business processes for technology solution providers. The software integrates a broad range of critical business systems, including customer relationship management (CRM), service desk, tech scheduling, project management, billing and reporting, and provides real-time service delivery intelligence to help users understand the factors that drive their business and their profitability.

Autotask is accessible from virtually any computing or mobile device connected to the Internet and features a world-class API that seamlessly integrates with the other systems and tools that providers rely on to run their businesses.

For more information about Autotask Corporation and products, please visit http://www.autotask.com or call 518-720-3500 Ext. 1

Autotask® and VARStreet® are registered trademarks of Autotask Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Autotask Corporation Announces Major Global Expansion

Strong Rise in International Demand Drives Full Localization & Translation in Six Languages
 
EAST GREENBUSH, NY - September 20, 2011 - In response to rapidly increasing market demand, Autotask Corporation, the world’s leading provider of hosted IT business management software, today announced that it is significantly expanding global operations and translating its software into six languages; German, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese. The move follows recent announcements that the company has opened international sales and support offices in the UK and signed a distribution agreement to serve customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
 
Autotask software is currently used by thousands of IT service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and managed services providers (MSPs) in 54 countries. More than 25% of Autotask’s customers are located outside of the United States and Canada; a figure that continues to increase. The company anticipates fully-localized and translated versions of its software will be available in German and Mandarin Chinese by early 2012, with the remaining translated versions available by the end of Q1, 2012.

“Autotask already has a significant operation around the world and year-to-date sales outside North America have just reached triple-digit growth over this time last year,” said Mark Cattini, Autotask President and CEO. “Making a serious commitment to meet the demands of our global customers and prospects is a natural step in the growth of our business and a natural part of the evolution of any mature software-as-a-service [SaaS] company.”

“Our customers, IT services providers, work with more than one million businesses and tens of millions of end points around the globe to keep their technology infrastructure working optimally,” said Kevin Donovan, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Service at Autotask. “As more and more of those SMB and enterprise businesses replace legacy software systems with outsourced cloud-based, SaaS solutions, the demand for an open IT business management platform like Autotask has grown steadily. We saw the trend in North America first, but it is increasing rapidly around the world.”

“The rapid growth we are experiencing now benefits all our users because it allows us to continue to invest heavily in our core product development and support, increasing the value and improving the overall experience for our customers,” Cattini added.

Autotask Corporation currently employs more than 200 full-time staff in East Greenbush, NY, USA, London, England, Beijing, China and Pune, India and operates datacenters in the United States and the United Kingdom.

About Autotask Corporation
Autotask Corporation provides the world's leading hosted IT business management software to streamline and optimize business processes for technology solution providers. The software integrates a broad range of critical business systems, including customer relationship management (CRM), service desk, tech scheduling, project management, billing and reporting, and provides real-time service delivery intelligence to help users understand the factors that drive their business and their profitability.

Autotask is accessible from virtually any computing or mobile device connected to the Internet and features a world-class API that seamlessly integrates with the other systems and tools that providers rely on to run their businesses.

For more information about Autotask Corporation and products, please visit http://www.autotask.com or call 518-720-3500 Ext. 1

Autotask® and VARStreet® are registered trademarks of Autotask Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Major Autotask Release Extends the Power of its Open Platform

Delivers expanded accessibility, workflow automation and service intelligence
 
EAST GREENBUSH - August 30, 2011 - Autotask Corporation, the world’s leading provider of hosted IT business management software, today announced the latest features and functionality that will be available to users around the world later this week. The release includes significant enhancements to Autotask’s multi-browser platform, workflow automation engine, client portal usability, service-level agreements, reporting tools, quote and expenses API, and a new Daily Alerts feature to help optimize service delivery and improve customer retention.
 
Multi-Browser Support

The August release expands Autotask’s support of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari browsers for its Home, CRM, Service Desk, Projects, Contracts, Timesheets and Directory modules, ensuring users can access Autotask from virtually any device connected to the Internet.
“As we announced at Autotask Community Live in May, multi-browser support is key to our strategy of creating a robust IT business management platform that is open to the way our customers want to do business,” said Mark Cattini, Autotask CEO. “Open on the front end to the computers, mobile devices and browsers they use to access Autotask. Open on the backend to give users greater choice in integrating the tools, services and partners they use to deliver products and services to their clients.”

Workflow Automation

The workflow engine, which is central to Autotask and allows users to automate and optimize critical business processes, has been extended to the service desk and sales opportunities modules and includes even more granular triggers based on time and/or note type entries, more refined service level agreement targets, a broader range of conditional operators, and offers more flexible action, update and notification options.

Expanded API

Autotask’s application programming interface (API), which currently supports integrations with dozens of leading remote monitoring and management (RMM), backup and disaster recovery (BDR), email protection, CRM and other business applications, has been extended to enable deeper workflow integrations with a broader variety of quoting software and accounting packages.
“Improved automation, easier integrations and greater flexibility are exactly the things our customers and prospects ask for, and exactly what they need to be successful in a competitive technology marketplace,” said Kevin Donovan, senior vice president of global sales and services at Autotask. “This new release significantly increases our users’ ability to shape their businesses in a way that makes sense for their market, for their customers and for their bottom line.”

New! Daily Alerts

Autotask Daily Alerts is an entirely new feature that provides automated oversight of a user’s business and offers a level of service delivery intelligence that was previously unavailable. The Daily Alerts function proactively mines users’ system data and checks the status of a wide variety of business conditions – from pending contract expirations, to device discovery, to inactive resources and client accounts and more. When a suboptimal condition is detected, Daily Alerts automatically notifies users of potential problems and provides links and other information to help quickly resolve open issues.

Client Portal & Taskfire®

Both the Client Access Portal, which facilitates clear and easy two-way communication between IT service providers and their clients, and the Taskfire co-managed service desk for clients with significant internal IT resources, have been upgraded with advanced filtering and expanded ticket search capabilities, an improved user interface and significant improvements in speed and performance.

“The scope of this release is significant, and reflects our capacity and commitment to invest in the success of our users,” said Patrick Burns, Autotask’s Director of Product Management. “It strikes a strong balance between new product innovations and improving our existing platform, and builds a stronger product experience for everyone.”

The new features will be instantly available to users in North America on Tuesday, August 30 and in the rest of the world on Thursday, September 1. No updates or downloads are required. Customers who would like more information about these and other new features may access the August 2011 Product Release Notes and register for complimentary new-features webinars by logging into www.autotask.net. Non-customers are encouraged to call +1 518 720 3500 Ext. 1 or visit www.autotask.com/contact_us/request_demo.htm to request an online demonstration at their convenience.

About Autotask Corporation
Autotask Corporation provides the world's leading hosted IT business management software to streamline and optimize business processes for technology solution providers. The software integrates a broad range of critical business systems, including customer relationship management (CRM), service desk, tech scheduling, project management, billing and reporting, and provides real-time service delivery intelligence to help users understand the factors that drive their business and their profitability.

Autotask is accessible from virtually any computing or mobile device connected to the Internet and features a world-class API that seamlessly integrates with the other systems and tools that providers rely on to run their businesses.
For more information about Autotask Corporation and products, please visit http://www.autotask.com or call 518-720-3500 Ext. 1

Autotask® and VARStreet® are registered trademarks of Autotask Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.