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Enterprise Service Management

Closed in HR. Still open for the employee.

HappySignals measures how employees experience any business service that runs on your ITSM platform: HR, finance, facilities and shared services, with the same surveys, targets and reporting you use for IT.

The case reportFinance service desk, this month
96%of finance cases closed within the agreed time
Cases this month
1,650
Mean time to resolve
3 days 17 hours
Reassigned twice or more
9%
The peopleHappySignals · Finance, 6 months
+17UK accounts payable desk. The US desk is at +61.
The decisionAsk, 4 seconds

A decision

Why is the UK AP desk so far behind the US?

Speed. It is the weakest experience driver in Finance at +14, and the UK desk takes longest on expense reimbursements. A third of unhappy employees also say the instructions were hard to understand. Fix the expense process and its guidance in the UK first.

+14speed, the lowest driver in Finance
33%found the instructions hard to understand
Why HappySignals

Measure HR, finance and facilities the way you measure IT.

Six things that turn case reports into experience intelligence for every business service.

Finance happiness by service and country
USUKSpain Payroll and employee payments+58+52+55 Corporate card and expenses+47+21+44 Accounts payable access+61+17+49 Collections and credit+44+39+51
Lowest: AP access in the UK+17

One measure across every service

IT, HR, finance and facilities answer the same short survey, so a +49 in finance means the same as a +49 in IT. For the first time the services can be compared, by service and by country.

What made people unhappy · FinanceLast 6 months, 440 negative responses
Service personnel's skills
Instructions were hard to understand
I had to explain my case several times
Service was slow
NegativePositive

Why, not just what

Employees pick the reasons behind their score, the same Experience Indicators you use for IT. In finance the answer is rarely the answer itself. It is the speed, the instructions and explaining the case twice.

Lost per finance ticket3h 27minBenchmark 2026
Lost per HR ticket1h 37minBenchmark 2026

Lost time, in every function

Employees say how much work time a case cost them. Finance scores highest in the benchmark and still costs the most time per ticket. A score and lost time have to be read together.

A target for every service

Pick a service and set a target for it. XLAs for HR, finance or facilities work exactly like XLAs for IT, and the provider sees the same number you do.

ServiceNowBMC HelixFreshserviceISO 27001:2022GDPR
New tools for the businessNone

The same ITSM platform

If a business service already runs on ServiceNow or BMC Helix, the survey goes out from the case you already have. No new tool for HR or finance to learn.

Experience Intelligence
Which finance desk costs employees the most time?

Your AI experience advisor

Ask which service costs employees the most time, where a hand-off breaks, or what to show the GBS steering group, in seconds.

From the benchmark

In ESM, finance is the happiest. Also the most time-expensive.

+83
Finance services happiness, the highest of the three functions, with 3h 27min lost per ticket, the longest
HappySignals Global IT Experience Benchmark 2026, Enterprise Service Management chapter
1h 37min
Lost per HR ticket, the shortest of the three, down from 2h 57min in 2024. HR happiness is +80
HappySignals Global IT Experience Benchmark 2026, Enterprise Service Management chapter
+81
IT services happiness, with 3h 14min lost per ticket. Three functions, one yardstick
HappySignals Global IT Experience Benchmark 2026, Enterprise Service Management chapter
Keep what you have

Case reports say closed. People say how it went.

Your service desk tool knows the case was closed on time. Your annual engagement survey knows people are unhappy with “internal services”. Neither tells HR or finance what to change next week.

QuestionCase reportsEngagement surveyHappySignals
Was the case closed on time?–From your ITSM platform
Did the employee get what they needed?–Partly
How much work time did it cost them?––
Why: the wait, the hand-off, the answer––
Which roles and sites are hit hardestPartly–
IT, HR and facilities on one scale––
How often you hear itEvery caseOnce a yearEvery case
Use cases

Where business services usually start.

Pick the service you are responsible for. Each shows what the data looks like and what it is worth.

Which finance desk costs people the most time?

Accounts payable, payroll, expenses and collections all run through the finance desks. The same question after every case shows which desk, which country and which system the frustration sits in.

+17the UK accounts payable desk, against +61 in the US, demo data
Last 6 monthsFinance · Cases+49on 9,901 responses
Happiness by assignment group
Happiness, lost time and volume by desk, demo data
US AP support desk+612h 10m322
Global vendor finance desk+483h 05m1,228
UK finance operations desk+284h 20m406
UK AP support desk+175h 40m445

One desk carries the gap, and it is a process, not a person.

Screens use demo data. Figures named as benchmark come from the HappySignals Global IT Experience Benchmark 2026.

Customer stories

From the IT service desk to Global Business Services.

PepsiCo · Global Business Services

One experience across IT, HR, procurement and facilities.

Whether it’s HR, procurement, or facilities, employees should receive a unified, seamless experience across departments.Prashant Arora, Director of Strategy and Transformation, PepsiCo

PepsiCo started with the global service desk and digital experience, added Experience Level Agreements next to its SLAs, and is extending the same measurement beyond IT to an end-to-end service experience in Global Business Services.

  • XLAs alongside SLAs
  • An effort score for getting support
  • Live experience data shared across regions
Read the story →

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Built on your platform

Already on ServiceNow or BMC Helix? Keep it.

Your ITSM platform runs the case. HappySignals asks the person how it went, from that same case, and shows the answer next to your SLA.

  • ServiceNow
  • BMC Helix
  • Freshservice
  • ISO 27001:2022
  • GDPR
After you book

Start with one business service.

A conversation, one service connected on your ITSM platform, and employees answering.

  1. Day 1

    A 30-minute call

    You talk to a HappySignals specialist about the business service you want to start with, HR, finance or facilities, and the questions you need answered.

  2. Week 1

    One service connected

    The survey goes out from the cases that already run on your ServiceNow or BMC Helix platform. Nothing new for the business to install.

  3. Week 2

    First results

    Happiness, lost time and the reasons, by case type, role and site. Set the first target for the service.

  4. Month 3

    The next service

    Add the next function on the same model, and compare them on one scale.

Every function has a service desk now. Ask how it feels.

A 45-minute demo with a HappySignals specialist, with HR, finance and facilities data in the real product.