After adding a dark mode to our iOS and Android apps, our browser Desktop client now has a dark theme as well. It goes well with the new Dark Mode in macOS Mojave released on Monday.

Get excited! With September comes the start of fall, which means a range of new app integrations. Track feedback, trends, and growth more efficiently with apps like Ybug, DirectCall, and ScopeAI, just to name a few.

Fifteen days ago, we launched Freddy, ‘a (hu)man’s best friend’, a conversational AI ‘omnibot’ that vastly improves customer experience across all channels of customer engagement: email, chat, social, and voice. We’ve envisioned Freddy as your favorite pet canine, but with a twist: Freddy’s glasses balanced on his cybernetic snout bely his tireless intelligence.

Has your business chosen an appropriate communication and file sharing tool that can be relied upon in the event of a complete network shutdown? While many businesses maintain a business continuity plan to help them assess potential threats to their organizations, surprisingly few specify the communications tools that should be used in the event of malicious cyber attack (or other a system outage), that renders the corporate network unavailable.

It’s been another exciting month here at the Freshdesk Marketplace and we’ve added 50+ apps to our directory this month alone! Here’s a quick look at some of the apps that were added to the Marketplace which could help boost agent (and admin) productivity.

This October will mark the one year anniversary of Freshdesk Mint. We rebuilt Freshdesk from the ground up a year ago to make it faster, easier and more intuitive to use. Our aim was to improve the overall experience we offered businesses so that they can support their customers more effectively.

It’s no secret that the customer experience (CX) has risen to the top priorities of most companies today. Businesses are putting a lot of effort into ensuring that their customers not only enjoy their experience with a company or service, but that they want to share that experience with others.

The #1 visual collaboration platform, RealtimeBoard, now supports the automated creation of mind maps.

For CIOs and IT teams, the debate over which secure enterprise messaging app to use is typically fought over the level of security on offer. However, for business users, the decision is often less clear, and typically the result of poor understanding. New research has highlighted that many people remain unclear over the level of protection offered by secure, end-to-end-encrypted (E2EE) messaging apps, when compared to basic services such as SMS text messaging (and even phone calls).

As customers trend towards becoming more self-sufficient, they’re becoming more accustomed to interacting with AI-powered tools for the support they need (especially with 75 percent of executives looking to actively implement AI in the next three years). The benefit of customers engaging with these tools means that agents can get involved with fewer support requests and focus their attention on the ones that truly need a human touch.