Hello there,

I have some great updates to share with you, but let's first take a moment to celebrate ManageEngine being placed in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for ITSM Tools! The Gartner Magic Quadrant provides information on ITSM vendors in the current market to help you decide the right fit for your business needs. Read the full report to find out about the trends currently shaping the ITSM landscape and how the 11 vendors are positioned.

Moving on to this month's updates: I'm excited to share that ServiceDesk Plus will release its brand-new release module, which was earlier introduced for cloud users, in its upcoming on-premises version. Our users can now experience robust release management capabilities and use the graphical workflow builder to define release strategies, configure useful automations, and set up standard operating procedures. The new version also comes with enhancements to Zia (our AI assistant), data imports from Active Directory, and more.

Are you free for a great thought leadership webinar on Oct. 26? IT expert and trainer Peter Brooks will be sharing tips on how to make the service desk a vital component in co-creating value. Don't worry if you aren't available for the event; you can access it later, on demand. Sign up here.

Last, but certainly not least: Analytics Plus, ManageEngine's IT analytics solution, now offers out-of-the-box blended analytics using data from ServiceDesk Plus and Desktop Central to give users a unified view of their IT environment. This allows you to analyze the impact of security updates on the help desk’s incident volume and correlate the relationship between technicians' workload and endpoint vulnerabilities. Find out more about the integration here.

That's all for now, folks! I'll be back next month with more updates from ServiceDesk Plus. In the meantime, let's stay in touch on .

Until next time,
LeAnn Gordon
The ServiceDesk Plus team