+1 for Redmine.

Peggy Shaughnessy
Web Applications Developer
Poudre River Public Library District
301 E. Olive Street
Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
970.221.6716
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http://poudrelibraries.org
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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Mike Smorul [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

I'll put up a vote for redmine. We use it w/ a few commercial plugins from
redminecrm (helpdesk, crm, and ticket-checklists) to handle most of our
internal procedures and process documentation. Specifically its positioned
to handle the following:

* Internal infrastructure changelogs (tickets) and documentation (wiki)
* Helpdesk response
* Order tracking.
* Internal/organization wiki.
* Individual project progress, documentation and issue tracking.

One feature we make heavy use of is nesting projects to allows us to both
segment work and still see an overview of what's going on w/in a department.

There are a few things we don't use it for:
* code browsing - handled by github or an internal gitlab server
* office document storage - handled internally via file-share or sharepoint
* public project websites - either main drupal or ghpages

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Erin White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Following this thread closely to see what y'all use.
>
> We evaluated our institution's IT support desk software and found the
> interface pretty hostile to problem-submitters. Instead we've stuck with
> our own in-house problem reporting system that has a much simpler user
> interface. It meets many business needs but doesn't integrate with our
> other systems (documentation, etc.) and our software development workflow.
> So we have some things we could be doing much better.
>
> --
> Erin White
> Web Systems Librarian, VCU Libraries
> (804) 827-3552 | [log in to unmask] | www.library.vcu.edu
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Ben Companjen <[log in to unmask]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Stuart,
> >
> > First thought (or what should have been my first thought): what
> problem(s)
> > are you trying to solve?
> > I sometime wish I had software that is better geared for service
> > management (including incident management, CRM and documentation), but in
> > our small organisation with three main services it has already been
> helpful
> > to structure the information differently and get it together in
> well-known
> > places. For the Dataverse service that I'm managing we use Google
> > Drive/Docs, ownCloud and JIRA.
> >
> > Incident and service request management is the most important
> > process/business function that I think would benefit from software
> support.
> > Emails, tasks and notes in various places aren't enough anymore to keep
> > track of problems and questions. JIRA helps a little, but not all
> requests
> > relate to software problems and I don't want to use it for every
> > simple-to-answer question.
> >
> > Have you asked your institution's IT service desk for suggestions? They
> > might be able to support when you choose the same software. Our IT uses
> RT
> > and seems happy with it. I'm hoping to get a queue for Dataverse-related
> > requests in their system.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10-05-16 23:42, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Stuart A. Yeates" <
> > [log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > >I’m looking for recommendations for software to run our much of our
> > >academic library back-of-house business-as-usual work. Things like
> > incident
> > >management, CRM, documentation management, etc across three tiers of
> > >support.
> > >
> > >We’re looking for something more structured than a mediawiki wiki (which
> > >we’ve got) and probably less structured than full-blown ITIL. We’re
> happy
> > >with open source or proprietary,  self-hosted or cloud solution, but
> we’re
> > >not happy to pay the kinds of money that Alemba (formerly VMWare) are
> > >asking for vFire Core (formerly VMware Service Manager).
> > >
> > >We have library management system (ALMA), a discovery system (PRIMO), a
> > >website (httpd, drupal), a proxy (EZproxy) and a copyright management
> > >system (Talis Aspire). Our institution provides us with user management,
> > >physical access management, VM host, email and physical infrastructure.
> > >
> > >Thoughts?
> > >
> > >--
> > >...let us be heard from red core to black sky
> >
>