The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has
selected Hornbill Systems’ Supportworks IT Service Desk platform to
manage IT support for its four national offices, 10 regional
offices and more than 180 nature reserves.
The bird protection charity has 1,500 staff, who make more than
1,200 calls a month to the RSPB IT team. The new platform will
replace the existing helpdesk system, which was too costly to
upgrade to meet new business processes.
Hornbill’s consultancy team has developed a tailor-made “next
contact date” traffic light system to enable RSPB helpdesk staff to
keep IT users informed of the status of their help requests within
pre-agreed times. The system will also provide bespoke reports on
service performance.
Cathy Green, IS Manager at the RSPB, said, “Until we had
Hornbill's system we had no way of really managing our next contact
date promises with customers. With the traffic light system,
analysts can see at a glance which customers they need to give an
update to.”
Appropriately, given the charity’s mission, Hornbill is also the
name of a group of large-beaked birds, many of them endangered or
protected species.