GLPI Beyond IT: Support for HR, Legal and Facilities

How to expand GLPI to serve departments outside IT, with specific catalogs, SLAs by area and a unified portal for employees.

If GLPI works for IT to manage tickets, why not for HR, Legal and Facilities? Enterprise Service Management is using the same ITSM principles for the entire organization.

Real-world scenarios

HR in GLPI

  • Onboarding: "New employee" form generates automatic tickets: IT (create email/access), Facilities (prepare workstation), HR (documentation)
  • Leave requests: request via portal with manager approval
  • Offboarding: offboarding checklist with tasks for each area
  • Contract review: request with document upload and defined deadline
  • Legal consultations: ticket with categorization by area of law
  • Compliance: recording and tracking of regulatory pending items

Facilities in GLPI

  • Building maintenance: air conditioning, electrical, plumbing with SLA by criticality
  • Cleaning and upkeep: requests with specific location
  • Layout change: request with approval and scheduling

Implementation

  1. Create an entity for each department
  2. Configure specific categories per area
  3. Create forms (GLPI 11) for each type of request
  4. Define SLAs per area (HR may have different SLAs than Facilities)
  5. Train the "technicians" of each area (HR analysts, building team)

Measurable benefits

  • Reduction in lost emails: everything becomes a trackable ticket
  • Metrics per area: response time, volume, satisfaction
  • 50% faster onboarding: automation of multi-area tasks

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. With separate entities and forms, HR can manage requests for leave, benefits, onboarding and offboarding within GLPI, with its own SLAs and reports.

A single point of contact for the employee, traceability of all requests, comparable metrics between areas and zero additional license cost.

Use GLPI entities. Each department has its own entity with categories, profiles, rules and SLAs isolated from the others.

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