Service Monitoring and ITSM Breakfast Seminar @ Microsoft

Our company Onrego kept a breakfast seminar yesterday together with Microsoft and Service-Flow Corporation. The focus was on Onrego Online System Center Operations Manager, how companies can benefit from it as an instant ready to use service monitoring system and on Service-Flow Corporation’s ITSM integration between numerous ITSM systems and Onrego Online System Center Service Manager. Let me summarize the event to you.

Onrego Breakfast Seminar

In my previous blog post, I wrote datacenter workloads are moving from organization’s datacenters to hosters and to IaaS cloud service providers. Couple of other trends we have seen within a year are: (1) companies does not have intelligent service (and server) monitoring systems and (2) companies are interested in owning their ITSM data rather than letting their MSP to own it because problems might arise when MSP is changed. Trend #2 also includes a note: many companies are interested in Microsoft System Center Service Manager as of ITSM system.

With these trends in mind and because our company Onrego do have quick and cost effective solutions for these trends (the answer is www.onlinesystemcenter.com by the way), we wanted to get together bunch of great people (read: customers) and have a breakfast seminar to cover these trends.

The breakfast seminar took place at Microsoft Finland, and started with a great keynote from Microsoft’s Juha Karppinen, Server & Tools Business Group Lead.

Juha talked about Cloud OS and Windows Server & System Center.

Juha’s presentations was followed by Onrego’s Pekka Onnela.

Pekka told us about cloud based System Center Operation Manager made available by Onrego and had couple of crazy demos of Onrego Dashboard, a browser based GUI to Service Monitoring via Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and Global Service Monitoring, a feature that lets you monitor your websites from all over the world.

After a quick pause, our partner, Service-Flow Corporation had their turn and Juha Berghäll and Kai Virkki entered the stage.

They gave couple of very nice demos how their cloud based ITSM Integration Service, which allows customers to use Onrego’s Online System Center Service Manager as their primary ITSM system, and automatically translate communication (such as tickets) to their MSP’s ITSM system. Service-Flow has done amazing job, since their online integration service handles ITSM systems such as ServiceNow, Efecte, BMC, Zendesk, and of course Microsoft System Center Service Manager. Service-Flow actually has online integrations to the largest Finnish MSP’s (CGI, Fujitsu, Atos and Tieto).

This means that when organizations want to have an online cloud based ITSM system (and they really do), they don’t need to take ServiceNow anymore. They can continue to use familiar Microsoft products because of Onrego’s Online System Center. And no matter if their MSP uses ServiceNow or BMC etc., integrations have already been made thanks to Service-Flow!

Onrego’s VP Kimmo Vesajoki ended the seminar and wished great summer time to attendees.

Thank you all the speakers and attendees!

The Onrego Ecosystem

A few blog posts ago I wrote that Onrego is gathering great partners in its ecosystem. Now it’s time to write a little more about The Onrego Ecosystem, what it’s all about and who are the members of it. And what is the most important: how can our clients benefit from The Onrego Ecosystem.

Since the first heartbeat of Onrego Ltd we started to build an ecosystem because it was obvious we couldn’t do what we were planning on doing just by ourselves. For example, with The Onrego Ecosystem, we can deliver Onrego Solution Accelerator service and MSI and App-V packaging services to our clients.

I have three case examples of how our clients have benefit from The Onrego Ecosystem and also how have the members benefit from it as well.

One great example of the power of Onrego Ecosystem is the major deal with Finnish municipalities. Our partner in this case is Centero Oy, that delivers MSI and App-V packaging services with us. Huge opportunity for Centero Oy and great addition to Onrego Online System Center workstation management that definitely greats more value to Finnish municipalities!

Another great example is Onrego Solution Accelerator and Microsoft SQL Server disasters. With Onrego Solution Accelerator our clients can have world class experts to help them with problems such as Microsoft SQL Server crashes. If servers are being monitored with Onrego Online System Center, our clients can escalate alerts to Onrego Solution Accelerator to get instant disaster recovery help for the matter. In one particular case our Onrego Solution Accelerator member Qumio Ltd saved the production of one of our client and prevented million euros lost when their Microsoft SQL Server had been crashed. Great work and great value to our client!

Third great example of The Onrego Ecosystem is our partnership with Verco Ltd. With Verco we can provide additional ITSM planning and implementation services to our clients on Onrego Online System Center Service Desk solution, based on Microsoft System Center Service Manager.

The Onrego Ecosystem consists of the following partners at the moment:

The Onrego Ecosystem

If you are interested about the services The Onrego Ecosystem can deliver, please do not hesitate to contact us!

If you think your company should be part of The Onrego Ecosystem, please do not hesitate to contact me!