What is New on CITSmart?
Versão 8.0.2.0
EXPERIENCE CENTER
- Improvements in the Experience Center (EC) UI/UX with new EC access menu and possibility for header and logo resizing, among others;
- Experience Center search feature implementation for contexts of Knowledge, Services, and News;
- Improvement in the Portfolio and Service Widget UI/UX with quick access to service you want;
TICKETS
- New "My Tickets" widget with list of all tickets that user has opened or for approval, including new customizable columns; :new:
- New end-user ticket preview screen, with comments, reopening, attachments, and others; :new:
- Improvement in the performance and UI/UX to the ticket attendant ticket list panel, with quick filters, new side menu, and inclusion of new description column;
- Improvements in the Ticket Screen UI/UX and intern options to capture, delegate, reclassify, suspend, and others;
WORKFLOW
- Dynamic components in flow design;
GENERAL
- Oauth2 authentication;
- Corrective Patch;
- Improvement in the performance and functionality of Smart chat that allow besides the communication between attendant and requester, the communication between attendants;
Version 8.0
Logo and Login Usage
The use of the CITSmart image has been optimized to improve data usage, as well as the application within the solution, making it simpler, lightweight,and suitable for new product directions.
![CITSmart new access]
Experience Center
Through the Experience Center, it's possible to build relationship portals with their own visual identity for customers, providers and employees, promoting visibility and collaboration.
![Experience Center]
Each Experiment Center has dynamic pages with the following options of widgets:
- Portfolios
- Requests
- Approvals
- Knowledge Center
- Neuro Applications
- Workspaces
- News
- Notifications
- Searches
- Youtube
- Images
- Menu
- List
- Text
- Chat
- Voip
- Others
Experience Centers can be created according to the access profiles and needs of the business areas.
![EC Creation]
![EC Visualization]
Portfolio Widget
It's used in the Experience Center to list the Portfolios, with their Services and Request, being able to replace the use of the services portal.
![Logged User Portfolios]
My Requests Widget
Lists the tickets of the user logged (a.), provides a history of attendance with a timeline (b.) and allows the requester to add notes and comments (c.), notify the attendant by email or, it's also possible to use chat with the attendant (d.).
![a-Logged user tickets]
![b-Ticket timeline]
![c-Attendant notes]
![d-Chat with attendant]
For further information access the documentation about [Experience Center][1]
My Approvals Widget
Approving a ticket by CITSmart is simpler, just click on the approve icon (a.), and you can view the ticket details and approve it or not (b.).
![a-Approve task]
![b-View Ticket]
Menus
Internally, the menus have been reorganized and now they're arranged on the left side, with the possibility of consultation and concealment, improving the workspace in the platform.
![CITSmart Options Menu]
Smart Decisions
It allows to maintain and view work areas by users with:
- Dashboards widgets
- Native Reports and
- Reports built in the platform.
Each user can configure their own area with one or more tabs.
![QSmart decision]
Quick Access
It's available new icons and a quick access area to the processes and portals in the upper area of the platform, in order to make it easier and more practical to access the CITSmart functionalities.
![Quick Access]
Ticket Management
Its new layout presents information in a more structured way, in a side menu with the option to hide, a significant improvement of performance and user experience (a.). In the creation of tickets, there is a new multilevel search that allows to search for portfolios, services and activity in a visual and fast way (it's no longer available to filter by category) (b.), it's possible to follow graphically the execution of the flow (c.). The attendant can send a message to the requesters and notify them by email (d.).
![a-Ticket attendance]
![b-Portfolio selection]
![c-Attendance flow]
![d-Message to the Requester]
The registration of events was replaced by the registration of notes and comments, with the possibility of notifying the requester by email, launching service hours and controlling the display of the registers (a.), and the entire execution of the flow and attendance registries, for example, capturing, delegating, suspending, SLA and others are displayed in a history in the timeline format. Messages with the requester are also stored here (b.).
![a-Notes and comments]
![b-Ticket History]
Now, as soon as a new Workaround is created, a notification is automatically triggered for the Incident responsible (a.) and you can view the workaround and copy the contents to the incident closure, completing the cause and answer solution answer (b.) (c.).
![a-Workaround notification]
![b-Workaround]
![c-Workaround Details] Simple - Agile Management
Simple, which brought the power of agile management for CITSmart platform, was developed to help teams to be more collaborative and participatory, increasing productivity and giving more autonomy and visibility to members of a simple and practical way (a.). Each team can have one or more workspace (b.) and create sprints with kanbans and phases, according to each need (c.).
![a-Simple]
![b-Simple-Sprints]
![c-Simple-Kanbans]
Each task can have one or more members. You can add:
- Checklists
- Comments
- Estimation
- Worked hours
- Tags
- Files
- Enable notifications, others.
![Task Detail]
For further information access the documentation about [Simple][2]
Problem Management
Problem Management has been redesigned to give more agility, ease, and practicality to team work. With a new listing panel and tracking, it's possible to change the columns displayed, enable automatic updating, view flow progress, search problem registration, access list of dynamic reports and others.
![Problem management]
To facilitate the treatment of the problem, a sequence of steps was structured in a lateral menu.
- Requester information
- Incidents related to the problem
- Problem
- Diagnosis
- Solution
- Review and Closure
![Problem Detail]
It is now possible to link and view, on one screen, the list of incidents that generated the problem (a.). The problem registration started to use the concept of portfolio of templates (b.). Templates are pre-registered with the attendance flow, responsible group, status and others, making the creation, classification, and attendance of problems more practical (c.).
![a-Problem incidents]
![b-Problem registration]
![c-Problem templates]
When Linking a Service to the Problem, it is possible to view the Service Map and the List of its CI (a.), with just two clicks on the CI to view the details (b.), and from the list of CI, it is possible to link those that are related to the problem (c.).
![a-CI list]
![b-CI detail]
![c-CI link]
A new diagnostic area was created and allows that, through Simple, more people or teams work collaboratively in the analysis of the problem, bringing agility and efficiency (a.); the known error registration, root cause, and workaround is easier. A new notification is sent to the person responsible for the incident as soon as each workaround is registered (b.).
![a-Problem diagnosis]
![b-Workaround and root cause registration]
There is also a new Solution area with direct link to the Simple and change registers, allowing the design, development and deployment of the solution to be more agile and collaborative, achieving better results (a.); the Review and Closure tab allows to report if the problem has been successfully solved or not. It's also possible to register lessons learned, notes and open sprints for problems whose review involves more people or teams (b.).
![a-Solution registration]
![b-Review and closure]
For further information access the documentation about [Problem Management][3]
Configuration and Assets Management
In order to make to search and viewing CIs faster and more practical, the Configuration and Assets Management panel has been redesigned, considering the best experience for the user. The new search allows you to filter by groups, types, alerts and identification.
![Configuration and Assets Management Panel]
The panel has a new Group Widget that allows the access and navigation between the CMDB structures (a.); The Alerts Widget displays the list of CI with the amount of Incidents, Problems, Changes, and Release opened (b.); other types of CIs are also arranged in a new Widget with the quantitative CIs (c.); and when accessing the type, the list of CI is displayed grouped and with the quantitative CIs, according to the identification (d.).
![a-CMDB detail]
![b-CMDB alerts]
![c-Types of CI]
![d-Detail by type of CI]
The CI visualization has also been optimized. The main information and features of the CI are now displayed in the General area (a.) and the warranty information is also displayed in a new Widget (b.).
![a-CI detail]
![b-CI warranty]
For further information access the documentation about [Configuration Management][4]
Change Management
CITSmart has evolved Change Management to give more agility, security, and practicality to changes in environments that go beyond IT. With a new list panel, it is possible to change display columns, enable automatic updating, view flow progress, search registers, access the list of dynamic reports, and others.
![Change management]
To facilitate attendance, the following sequence of steps was structured in the side menu:
- Requester information
- Request for change information
- Change planning
- Reversion plan
- Review and closure
- CI related
![Change detail]
To facilitate the organization and classification of change registrations, CITSmart started to use the concept of Change Portfolio, allowing pre-set templates with attendance flow, calendar, responsible groups, and others (a.), and the classification of change has become much simpler and more agile (b.).
![a-Portfolio of Change]
![b-Classification of change]
It is also possible to link to the templates and the agile risk analysis forms. Each change template can use a form with questions and weights. According to the analysis, a risk graph is presented (a.). The Planning, Reversal, Revision, and Closure of a Change now have an agile management dashboard ("Simple" concept), so multiple teams can execute tasks in a fast, transparent and collaborative manner (b.).
![a-Risk analysis chart]
![b-Change planning]
In the review and closure of a change, in addition to informing if the change was successful or not, it is also possible to link a form to analyze the quality of the change, in addition to the link with Incidents, Problems, and Lessons learned among others.
![Review and closure]
For further information access the documentation about [Change Management][5]
Deployment and Release Management
The Deployment and Release Management process also passed through evolutions. The list pane follows the same pattern presented in the Problem and Change Management processes.
![Release Management]
In the side menu, a sequence of steps was structured to facilitate the follow-up of the release (a.), and the packaged changes for the release are presented on the same screen, making it easier to follow (b.). The Planning and Deployment now have an Agile Management dashboard ("Simple" Concept), facilitating the involvement and collaboration of several teams (c.).
![a-Side Menu]
![b-Release list]
![c-Deployment and planning panel]
Business Intelligence
One of the optional modules in this new version is Smart Analytics, which allows the use of the Saiku Community BI framework for data analysis of Tickets, Changes, Releases, etc, and others (a.), various views of charts and tables are available, with the possibility of filters and export to CSV and pdf (b.).
![a-Smart Analytics]
![b-Charts and tables views]
Audit Trail
Audit trails have been created to give more transparency to the data usage and security of our system, there are three Audit options: data, access, and key.
For further information access the documentation about [System Audit][6]
Data audit.
This auditing option displays the history of all changes, inclusion, and deletion of data in the system.
![Data audit]
Access audit
This option presents the history of system accesses (inputs and outputs).
![Access Audit]
Key audit
This audit option informs the licenses used for the validation of the system.
![Key Audit]
Mobile CITSmart GO App
The App CITSmart GO was created to give more flexibility and agility in field service. App features can run offline and then synchronize easily.
![App FS]
![App FS]
![App FS]
![App FS]
![App FS]
![App FS]
For further information access the documentation about [CITSmart GO][7]
App CITSmart Experience
The Mobile CITSmart Experience App was created so that the features and benefits of the CITSmart solution can also be accessed via mobile devices, this new version includes notifications for the Android operating system and the possibility of confirmation for attendance via subscription.
For further information access the documentation about [Mobile CITSmart Experience][8]
![App Mobile SM]
![App Mobile SM]
![App Mobile SM]