How to Reduce IT Incident Tickets and Boost Team Efficiency with Lumos
Discover how Lumos helps IT teams reduce incident ticket volume, eliminate repetitive tasks, and boost operational efficiency through identity lifecycle automation, self-service access, and intelligent workflows.
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Every time someone joins, leaves, or moves within the company, IT gets flooded with tickets – granting access, removing permissions, or chasing approvals. Access reviews help, but they often lack the context to answer the most important question: Should this person still have access – and to what?
What looks simple on paper becomes messy in reality. Without the right visibility, it’s impossible to right-size access and enforce least-privilege. According to the 2024 Access Productivity report, 64% of organizations have productivity impacted on a daily or weekly basis due to access issues.
At Lumos, we are building autonomous governance; where access management goes beyond provisioning tickets and becomes a full, intelligent lifecycle. With contextual visibility and actionable insights, IT can manage access at scale. All without the noise or delays.
Common Causes of the IT Backlog
IT teams are buried in avoidable, repetitive work when it comes to access management. Here’s where the backlog builds up:
- Manual provisioning delays: New hires wait days for access while IT chases approvals and configures accounts one by one.
- Repetitive approvals for known access: When employees request the same tools over and over, IT becomes a rubber stamp for predictable decisions.
- Offboarding gaps and missed role changes: Without automated deprovisioning, lingering access becomes a ticking security time bomb.
- Audit findings and cleanup turned into tickets: What should be proactive hygiene becomes a reactive scramble, and more work for IT.
With Lumos, you eliminate these root causes by turning manual work into autonomous workflows – before they become backlog.
Strategies to Reduce Ticket Volume (with Lumos)
One-size-fits-all access doesn’t work. Birthright roles often lead to permission sprawl, unnecessary risk, and an endless stream of IT tickets when users need more, or less, than the default.
Right-Size Access with AI
In fast-moving organizations, manually managing roles that balance productivity and security is impossible. That’s where Lumos steps in with the power of AI.
- Use Albus, Lumos’ Identity AI agent, to analyze usage patterns, job functions, and access history, automate role mining and recommend the ideal role architecture for your organization.
- Get dynamic, context-aware roles that fit the business context, right attributes and usage that meet the needs of your workforce. No more waiting for access.
Implement Full Lifecycle Automation
Employees join on Day 1 and they have all the access to apps they need, not spend time filing countless IT tickets. With Lumos, employees can get right access with intelligent automated workflows. No additional tickets or time spent chasing the right approvers for access.
- Define and deploy highly tailored RBAC/ABAC access policies based on attributes like title, department, and location.
- Sync directly with your HR system to handle identity account creation, email generation and real-time access updates, keeping pace with every joiner, mover and leaver.
Check out how Prosper cut down IT tickets by 72% while ensuring employees get access to what they need from Day 1.
Get to Zero-Touch IT with Self-Service
Manual app requests drain IT time and frustrate employees. Lumos delivers an omni-channel experience to request for apps - meeting employees where they are.
- Simplify app requests with the Lumos AppStore, a dynamic app catalog, or via Slack/Teams.
- Deflect IT tickets and simplify multi-step approval workflows with prebuilt matrices and policies.
- Provide just-in-time and scheduled access to reduce friction, while preserving least-privilege controls.
Check out how Tekion where able to implement automated onboarding and self-service, while slashing tickets by 95%.
Assess your IT workflows in real-time
Most of the tools offer disjointed workflows and experiences that lead to missed steps, lost visibility, and growing risks. With Lumos Task Center, IT teams get one centralized view of all identity-related tasks from configuration to provisioning/de-provisioning.
- Track task ownership across teams to ensure nothing is missed.
- Monitor progress in real-time across your apps, identities and permissions in one place.
Go from Backlog to Autonomy with Lumos
IT teams shouldn’t be stuck in a loop of repetitive tickets and manual clean-up. The real solution isn’t more headcount, it is about smarter identity. Lumos helps you achieve end-to-end access governance by combining AI, automation, and end-to-end visibility. The result? Fewer tickets, faster onboarding, tighter security, and a happy team that can finally focus on what matters.
To learn how Lumos unlocks your IT efficiency, request a demo today.
