Incidents are typically unplanned outages or problems. Examples of incidents include:

  • Your monitor is not powering on
  • Your email won’t send
  • Your computer won’t boot
  • Your account is locked out
  • A program, such as Avantis, is not working properly


Service requests are typically planned and foreseeable events. Examples of service requests include:

  • You need equipment for a new hire (PC, desk phone, monitors)
  • You need to move your PC to a new desk
  • You need to install the Pro version of Acrobat on your PC
  • You need to access to something in Avantis
  • You need to add or remove someone from your team’s email