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12 June 2026

How to Know If Your ITSM Tooling Is Holding You Back

Is your ITSM tool slowing your IT team down? Learn the warning signs and how modern service desk platforms improve reporting, automation and efficiency.

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technology

Setting up a JIRA Data Center test system on a single host

14 December 2015

We discus why we chose to use a single host to set up a JIRA Data Center test system and give you quick guide on how we did it.

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JIRA as a personal task manager?

27 November 2015

JIRA as a personal task manager blog post by BDQ

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Happy Thanksgiving

26 November 2015

Gobble gobble! Happy Turkey Day to everyone who celebrates it!

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Organisational memory and data governance

25 November 2015

Data governance shouldn't only be a priority when things go wrong. DataQA for Jira can help you check rules are being met & let you know whe

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Data Hound - our bloodhound for seeking out unwanted data

12 November 2015

Like a bloodhound, DataQA for Jira hunts down and sniffs out the data you're looking for and fetches the results for you in an easy to manag

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Social media updates

5 November 2015

We decided to spruce up our social media accounts and just wanted to fill you in on some of the details - including a YouTube playlist for o

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