Cadres IT Operations & Infrastructure
Plate 02 / 06 Rev 2026.08
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Unit 02 — ITSM

A service desk where the automation is the product.

Beacon runs incident, service request, change, and problem on one unified ticket model, with SLAs that do real calendar math and automations that are deterministic, versioned, and traced. Built for internal IT teams and MSPs alike, with per-organization SLA policies, white-label branding, and terminology overrides from day one.

Scope — What Beacon owns

Tickets and SLAs that hold up

All four ticket types share one API and one model, with an impact-by-urgency priority matrix, merge and link, bulk operations, and public-versus-internal note permissions. The SLA engine computes response and resolution targets against 24x7 or business-hours calendars with validated timezones; an invalid timezone is an error, not a silent fallback to UTC. Policies apply per priority and per organization, which is the shape MSPs actually need, and a policy in use cannot be deleted out from under its tickets.

Journeys: automation you can read

A journey is a versioned automation: a trigger, a declarative condition tree, and ordered steps drawn from a fixed vocabulary, with a mandatory declared exception path. No user-supplied code runs, execution is deterministic, and every step is traced onto the ticket timeline. A template gallery covers the common cases. AI is available as a journey step with budget accounting; bring your own provider, or use the platform default.

Intake where people already are

A Microsoft Teams bot, a Slack integration, and an in-portal assistant share one conversation engine with per-channel adapters. The chat layer classifies intent and enriches context but executes nothing: every conversation terminates in a ticket or a journey trigger. Email intake, a service catalog, knowledge-base deflection ranking, and a known-error database round out the front door.

Change governance and major incidents

Changes get CAB workflow, freeze windows, collision detection, risk scoring, configurable post-implementation review policy, approval delegations, and magic-link approvals with reminder services. Major incident management, escalations, and on-call schedules cover the bad days. The device bridge connects tickets to endpoint reality, with an honest latency class on every provider so a technician knows whether an action lands in seconds or on the next policy cycle.

The queue, measured by what users experience.

The XLA scorecard measures confirmed resolutions, reopens, repeat contacts, silence gaps, and reassignment bounce, with CSAT suppressed below a minimum response count so nobody steers by noise. Findings feed an improvement queue, not a leaderboard.

Ticket typesIncident · Request · Change · Problem
IntakeTeams · Slack · Portal · Email
TenancyInternal IT · MSP white-label
ProgramBeta
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