Using OTOBO for Ticketing and IT Service Management

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ResorsIT Uses OTOBO for IT Service Management

OTOBO is an ITIL-compliant, open-source service management platform built for IT helpdesks, customer service centers, and enterprise service operations. It is a community-driven fork of OTRS Community Edition, offering a fully free, modularly extensible platform.

Ticket Management

  • Multi-channel ticket creation — Tickets are automatically created from email, the customer self-service portal, or phone intake.
  • Queues, priorities, and states — Route tickets to the right team, set priority levels, and track ticket status through resolution.
  • Agent collaboration — Assign tickets, add internal notes, and track the full communication history within each ticket.

SLA Monitoring & Escalation

  • Service Level Agreement tracking — Define response and resolution times per service or customer.
  • Automatic escalation — OTOBO monitors SLA deadlines and notifies your team before breaches occur, ensuring tickets are handled within agreed timeframes.

Knowledge Base

  • Internal and external FAQ — Create and manage a repository of solutions, how-to articles, and documented procedures.
  • Customer-facing — Publish articles to the self-service portal so users can find answers before submitting a ticket.
  • Agent-facing — Give your support team quick access to known solutions and standard procedures.

Customer Self-Service Portal

  • Web-based portal — Customers submit and track their own tickets without email.
  • FAQ access — Customers browse published knowledge base articles directly from the portal.

Process Automation

  • Workflow automation — Define rules and triggers to automate ticket routing, notifications, and status changes.
  • Process management — Model structured workflows for repeatable processes like onboarding, change requests, or approval chains.

Reporting & Analytics

  • Dashboards — Configurable agent dashboards with ticket statistics and queue overviews.
  • Reports — Generate reports on ticket volume, response times, SLA compliance, and team performance to identify areas for improvement.

CMDB (Add-on)

  • Configuration Management Database — Track IT assets, infrastructure components, and their relationships. Extends beyond IT to buildings, equipment, vehicles, or any managed resource.

Additional Capabilities

  • Email-to-ticket conversion — Incoming emails are automatically converted to tickets with full threading.
  • Templates and canned responses — Speed up replies with reusable response templates.
  • ITIL-compliant — Supports incident management, service request fulfillment, and problem management processes.
  • Modular and extensible — Add capabilities through packages and extensions as your needs grow.

More details on OTOBO are available at their website linked here.