What are the benefits of service desk automation?
There’s a good chance a service desk team survey would show that most of the workday is devoted to managing their ticketing process rather than IT issues. With help desk automation , ticket routing is built into the automated workflow, resulting in a better experience for end-users and your support team.And while the most profound benefits of an automated IT service desk impact your service desk agents and their callers, help desk automation impacts are wide-reaching, including:
Who benefits from an automated service desk?
An automated help desk is more than just help desk software; it's an entire Digital Workforce with a holistic approach to your company's health. AARI improves KPIs with quicker ticket resolution through chatbots and automatic troubleshooting for IT teams.
TaskUs crushes AHT goals and improves customer satisfaction with Automation 360 & AARI


"Within one month, we developed and deployed AARI and quickly demonstrated value by simplifying tasks for our frontline and efficiency gains for our clients.”
— Manish Pandya, SVP of Digital Transformation, TaskUs
2X
Increase in ticket processing capacity reducing defects
3K+
Teammates supported by AARI
105%
Improvement over AHT target
How service desk automation can help your business
Of course, improving the work environment and IT help desk morale benefits your team and customers, but service desk automation can also benefit your business performance. With rapid solutions to arising IT issues and automated fixes to bots and software updates, your entire team performs at its peak. This increases revenue, leads to easier scaling, and provides greater insight into your business systems.

Service Requests
- Divert easy fixes through chatbots and self-service portals
- Automate routing for less time spent managing ticket statuses
- Solution standardization through automation
- Quicker response times for complex IT problems
- Higher KPIs through more straightforward issue resolution
- Better fulfillment of SLAs

Onboarding & Offboarding
- Automate new employee account creation
- Generate a temporary password for password creation
- Automatically create user profiles for new employee software
- Purge and exclude offboarded employees automatically from the network
- Provide new employee IT assistance with chatbots
- Streamline new employee software orientation and training

Metrics and Data Management
- Reduce or eliminate human error in data input
- Automated ticket routing provides accurate ticket timeline
- Find roadblocks in workflow
- Better assess employee productivity
- Promote or reallocate employees based on accurate metrics
- Set data-backed performance standards

Software Updates
- Less manual effort required for software update assistance
- Updates initiate automatically after work hours
- Remedy common software update issues with chatbots
- Assess and address software update compatibility problems
- Automate new software training
- Seamless and accurate data transfers and merges
What to look for in help desk automation software
You and many others rely on your IT Help Desk. Because they are vital to the health of your company, you want to ensure you invest in the best help desk automation system for their needs. Keep in mind that your IT service desk team is only as productive as the automation software they are given.
When shopping for help desk automation, look for intelligent automation capabilities. This ensures your RPA software can be tailored to your team's unique needs. Artificial intelligence allows your team's software to intuit solutions and build bots based on learning your team's system.
In addition to artificial intelligence-driven robotic process solutions, you want to be sure that your help desk automation software offers a user-friendly dashboard. If your company offers help desk contracting, be sure the dashboard and user interface are good fits for your IT service management specs.
How to get started with help desk automations
Automation Anywhere also offers free live demos of automated programs. We will walk you through how our RPA products work and how they can improve the effectiveness of your IT help desk team.