City of Boca Raton adapts BOSSDesk for Efficient Onboarding and Service Delivery

Customer Overview

The City of Boca Raton is the southernmost city in Palm Beach County, Florida. With an estimated population of 98,150, it is one of the wealthiest communities in South Florida. Boca Raton has 46 parks, 4 miles of public beaches, 8 Fire Stations, 2 Libraries, and 3 Universities. There are more than 2,000 full-time and part-time employees that provide various services through seven departments.

Challenges

The City wanted to make first impressions matter with efficient onboarding and wanted to improve the process for handling service requests across all departments. The previous on-boarding process consisted of many steps requiring the creation of multiple tickets per new employee and technicians would have to create tickets for other IT staff members to perform their tasks. Many processes were manual and needed to be automated.

Solutions

The City of Boca Raton replaced their ageing ticketing and asset management solution with BOSSDesk Service Management on the Cloud to get a better handle on their assets and also to improve their service delivery. They automated their complex employee onboarding with workflows and approvals using the BOSSDesk Service Catalog. They also used the Service Catalog for handling service requests for all other departments.

A detailed analysis of the current onboarding processes was performed to understand what applications were used, who installed, supported, created user accounts and assigned permissions to these applications. The role of Human Resources and the Hiring Manager was clearly defined as well as the permissions required for requesting hardware & software for new employees. Service requests would be generated by both HR and the hiring manager and some manual steps would need to be automated to improve efficiency.

Results

It became apparent that BOSSDesk Service Catalog combined with the automation provided by the routing engine could address the many issues that were identified in the analysis phase. These included:

Creating multiple tasks per ticket.
Assigning tasks to teams rather than individuals.
Notifying non-technicians of tasks they need to perform.
Being able to visually see what tasks were needed all in one place.
Logical ordering of tasks.

In addition to employee onboarding, the City also implemented the Service Catalog for handling several common requests for all departments including the police and fire departments. The implementation was extremely well received by the City employees and significantly improved service delivery.

Watch the webinar recording of the implementation.