Hornbill's Supportworks ITSM certified PinkVERIFY™ compatible for 11 ITIL V3 Processes

April 13th, 2010 -- Supportworks service management software gains stamp of approval for ITIL V3 compatibility

Hornbill's Supportworks ITSM V3.0 has passed the PinkVERIFY™ assessment and as such, the tool is officially certified as ITIL compatible by Pink Elephant, the world’s leading IT Service Management education and consulting provider.
A Pink Elephant IT Management Consultant assessed and confirmed compatibility of Supportworks ITSM V3.0 in eleven (11) ITIL Version 3 (V3) processes:

• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Release and Deployment Management
• Service Asset and Configuration Management
• Service Level Management
• Service Portfolio Management
• Service Catalog Management
• Knowledge Management
• Financial Management
• Request Fulfilment

The PinkVERIFY™ logo is the stamp of approval issued by Pink Elephant for Service Management tools that meet the minimum functional criteria for these ITIL processes.

Troy DuMoulin, AVP of Product Strategy for Pink Elephant, acknowledges Hornbill's status: "PinkVERIFY was created to help the IT community find software tools that are compatible within an ITIL environment. Hornbill's Supportworks has long been recognized for its ITIL-compatibility, reaching Enhanced status in 2004. We put Supportworks through a rigorous assessment process to ensure its compatibility with ITIL V3. The tool met all of the mandatory, integration and optional criteria and we congratulate Hornbill on achieving this standard."

Gerry Sweeney, CEO of Hornbill says: "Hornbill strives to improve the capabilities of Supportworks to meet our customers' demands, and gaining the PinkVERIFY 3.0 stamp of approval once again demonstrates our ongoing commitment to service management best practice."

Service Support PinkVERIFY™ Enhanced

About Hornbill

Hornbill develops and markets Supportworks: platform technology and applications for IT Service Management and business helpdesks. Hornbill's software enables its customers to provide excellent service and support, while benefiting from the economies of service desk consolidation on a single technology platform. Supportworks’ service desk software is designed for rapid deployment within any IT or business support environment, including ITIL-compatible IT Service Management (ITSM), IT Helpdesk, Customer Service & Support, Human Resources and Facilities Management with the flexibility to build additional service desks at minimal extra cost.
Hornbill's service desk and help desk software supports thousands of commercial and governmental sites worldwide. Hornbill was founded in 1995 and has offices in London and Dallas. Hornbill has earned many industry accolades including; Service Desk Institute "IT Service and Support Technology Supplier of the Year", "Best Business use of Support Technology" with Sharp Electronics and "Support Excellence Award for Smaller Helpdesks" with Camelot.
High profile service desk customers include Atos Origin (Olympic Games Athens 2004, Torino 2006, Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010), Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth City Council, Greggs, London School of Economics, Natural History Museum, Knight Frank, Comet, The National Archives, and Camelot.
For more information about Hornbill's solutions please visit www.hornbill.com

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