Spiceworks - The Next Frontier

the Next Frontier

Sneak Peek into theFuture of Spiceworks

Francis Sullivan - CTO & Co-founder

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Futures

• Coming in Spiceworks 4.0

–Alpha drops start in a couple weeks!

–Be sure to subscribe to the 4.0 group

•give us feedback

• Further out in the Future

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UI Changes Coming in Spiceworks 4.0

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UI Changes Coming in Spiceworks 4.0Community Presence

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UI Changes Coming in Spiceworks 4.0Community Presence

Tool + Info Bar

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UI Changes Coming in Spiceworks 4.0Community Presence

Summary Bar

Tool + Info Bar

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UI Changes Coming in Spiceworks 4.0Community Presence

Summary Bar

Tool + Info Bar

What are you doing?

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Helpdesk Changes Coming in Spiceworks 4.0

• Multiple users per ticket

• Multiple devices per ticket

• New, cleaned up interface

• Helpdesk “remote control”

• through email

• New portal

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Pimiento 0-100 Anaheim 100 - 250 Poblano 250 - 500 Rocotille 500 - 1000 Jalapeno 1000 - 2500 Serrano 2500 - 5000 Cayenne 5000 - 7500 Thai Pepper 7500 – 10K Rocoto 10K – 15K Datil 15K – 30K Habanero 30K – 50K Red Savina 50K – 75K Naga Jolika 75K – 100K Pepper Spray 100K – 250K Pure Capsaicin 250+

• Quick Progress at Lower levels

• Top Users become ELITE

• Promotes ELITE activity

• Levels are visible

• Promotes friendly competition

• At a glance, know the experts

What’s Your Pepper?

Details

Spiceworks USer Elite Points System

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Spiceworks Network Map

• View your network

• Identify bottlenecks

• Continuously updated

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Futures - Further Out

• more use of crowd-sourcing

• deeper research / product data

• more real-time data for network management

• enable multi-site solution

• internationalization support

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Futures - Further Out

• multi-role IT users, role-based permissions

• helpdesk queueing / customizations

• mini-wizards for configuration

• enhanced network map drill-down

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Futures - Always Included

• performance / scalability improvements

–keep up to date with the state-of-the-art

• FIX FIX FIX - continuous improvements

–please give us feedback in the community!

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Spice up the feature requests that you want!

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Screenshots

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