MSM Problem Management
Identify, adapt and improve
Problem management is one of the key support processes, focusing primarily on proactively analysing requests to detect a recurring pattern and diagnosing the underlying root cause.
MSM gives you the ability to quickly identify, monitor, report upon and resolve problems - dramatically reducing outages and downtime.
Proactive: "Acting in advance to deal with an expected difficulty"
Use MSM to:
- Identify high business impact areas
- Search knowledge base for common problems and resolutions
- Identify what equipment, locations and services are causing the most problems
- Search for similar problems
- Analyse the Top10 areas taking up staff resource
- Identify problem trends and improvements
- Define known errors
- Report on volume statistics
- Relate incidents and changes



