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Critical Capabilities for Field Service Management

Published: 30 November 2022

Summary

Vendors’ positions in this Critical Capabilities reflect clients’ new expectations in areas like AI-driven diagnostics, knowledge curation, sustainability and communications. Application leaders should seek solutions with objective proof that they improve work quality and customer business outcomes.

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Key Findings
  • Equipment owners and operators increasingly expect both digital and analog interactions with field service providers (FSPs) to be more personalized and effortless. FSPs need to integrate empathetic practices and customer journey awareness into service delivery by integrating contextual data from additional data sources, such as sustainability analytics and asset performance management (APM).

  • End-user organizations have improved the quality of relevant information they provide as part of service requests they make to outside vendors. Vendors in this Critical Capabilities research go beyond condition-based, maintenance-based work order generation to offer support for increasingly complex machine-assisted triage and diagnostics. This will help

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  • IFS
  • Microsoft
  • Nomadia
  • Oracle
  • OverIT
  • Praxedo
  • Salesforce
  • SAP
  • ServiceMax
  • ServiceNow
  • ServicePower
  • Demand Management and CX
  • Connected Equipment Triage
  • Work Planning and Scheduling
  • Technician Enablement
  • Multiexperience Service Support
  • Work Order Debrief
  • Invoicing and Reporting
  • Agreements, Operations, Contractors
  • Integration
  • Platform, Extensibility, Industry
  • Appointment-Centric: Volatility in Schedules
  • Equipment-Centric: Complex Service and Support
  • Outcome-Centric: Equipment as a Service

Analysts:

Jim Robinson

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