PB Newsletter: September 2023

Where did the time go? It seems like only a few weeks ago we had put away our winter coats, and now it’s almost time to drag them out again. As we head into autumn, let’s have a look at what’s new in the Precision Bridge community:

Latest Precision Bridge Version Released

Another of the monthly incremental releases of Precision Bridge 7.2 became available in August. This release includes the following features and improvements:

  • Support for retrieving links and relationships between objects in Cherwell

  • Support for creating links and relationships between any two objects in Ivanti

  • Precision Bridge Query support for looking up Jira issues and Confluence pages, along with lookup support for Jira users, groups, organizations, request types, and Confluence spaces

  • Support for key mappings for migration of issues and Confluence pages into Jira

In addition, this release of Precision Bridge 7.2 includes new functionality to aid users in raising Precision Bridge support tickets and contacting the Precision Bridge team.

Hints and Tips

What's the best way to map tables and fields when migrating knowledge articles? Should users performing migrations have certain access controls granted to them? The Precision Bridge support page has plenty of tips, tricks and best practices to help your migration go smoothly, and here are a couple of examples:

New Partner: CGI

We are delighted to welcome CGI as our new partner. Founded in 1976, CGI is among the world's largest IT and business consulting services firms. CGI is insights-driven and outcome-based to help accelerate returns on your IT and business investments.

Events We're Attending

We have a busy remainder of the year of events planned, but our highlight is the itSMF Conference (Reading) on the 13th and 14th of November where we are speaking in the breakout session.

If you will be there too, we’d like to connect! Drop us a note so we can coordinate.

Upcoming Webinars

The Precision Bridge webinar series continues with multiple webinars on ITSM best practices and interactive demonstrations. Reserve your spot now, and check back on our Webinars page to see more upcoming events.

Staying Ahead of ServiceNow Migration Challenges

This is the first in a 7-part series that will be updated each week in the Debunk the DIY Data Migration blogs...

By their nature, most IT projects are difficult in many ways: Difficult to plan, difficult to fund, and difficult to execute. For some projects, it’s even hard to define what problem it is that you’re solving or the expected benefits of the project.
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Notice of Support Termination

With the release of Precision Bridge 7.3, Support is being withdrawn for Precision Bridge 6.3 and below. Customers still using these versions are advised to upgrade to a later release. Currently, Supported Versions of Precision Bridge are: 7.3, 7.2, 7.1 and 7.0.

If you have any questions, contact us here: Contact Us.