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DOTComm
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- Challenge 1: A homegrown dashboard that grew costly and time-consuming to maintain
- Challenge 2: New code required every time a service was added, just to monitor it
- Challenge 3: Service desk had no usable view of the engineers' monitoring tools
- Challenge 4: Frontline staff were the last to know when something broke
- Solution 1: A SaaS status page with no hardware or software to maintain
- Solution 2: First-tier alerts feeding on-call techs before the morning calls arrive
- Solution 3: One accessible dashboard the whole organization can read
- Solution 4: Proactive maintenance and third-party vendor notifications by email
How DOTComm turned outages into customer-service wins for the City of Omaha
The IT commission for Omaha and Douglas County retired a homegrown dashboard for a status page it doesn't have to code, on Xurrent IMR.
When the IT provider for an entire city and county has a problem, two very different audiences need to know: the engineers who can fix it, and the thousands of staff and residents who just want to know whether it is safe to assume the system is down. For DOTComm, telling both groups had become the hard part. The monitoring existed. The communication did not.
DOTComm had built its own dashboard for this a decade earlier. By the time it started showing its age, maintaining it had become a job in itself. The fix was to stop maintaining a tool and start using one, so DOTComm moved to Xurrent IMR.
Results with Xurrent IMR
The problem: a homegrown dashboard built by engineers, for engineers
DOTComm's in-house dashboard served its purpose but carried growing costs: it was time-consuming to maintain and demanded new code for every service added. Worse, the service desk fielded every IT call yet had no usable view into it, so when something broke, the people answering the phones were the last to know.
The solution: a status page nobody has to maintain
Because Xurrent IMR runs as SaaS, DOTComm took on no new hardware or software to maintain, which removed the burden that made the old dashboard a drain. The integration model is where it earns its keep: DOTComm's first-tier alerting systems send alerts into Xurrent IMR, which feeds on-call technicians. When something goes wrong overnight, technicians are already working it before the help desk calls start.
The result: a quieter service desk and SLAs met
The status page now carries everything the help desk and end users need, including third-party vendor maintenance. The dashboard and alerting have helped DOTComm meet the KPIs in its service level agreement, a meaningful outcome for a public-sector provider accountable to two government authorities. The service desk is markedly quieter now that stakeholders can watch progress online.
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