Creating a great support team isn’t something that happens in a day, a week, or even a month. It’s a long-term goal for many companies, and even when they get there, it’s important to sustain that excellence over time, particularly as the company grows. The pressure to maintain a high level of support exists because of the impact the support team has on their business’ reputation.
In the most recent release of OneDesk we made big changes to Customer Organizations. Whereas prior to this release customer organizations were relatively simple groupings of customers, now they have become more sophisticated objects, with properties and features that will change the way you use OneDesk.
Last month, we introduced features like Automation Error Handling, Automation Marketplace, Custom Authentication, and Action Versioning. We also made it easier for you to debug failed actions as well as added New Actions for various applications. This month is no exception. This March, in the newest version of Workativ Assistant, based on our consensus of most used IT help desk apps, we’ve added new applications and actions for them. Let’s check them out now.
A pandemic is identified as a rapidly spreading infectious disease that poses a global threat. The result? Decelerated economic growth and social chaos. The COVID-19 outbreak is taking the world by storm. On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared it as a pandemic due to more than 20,000 confirmed cases back then. The count has only surged now!
The new Easy Insight and Teamwork Desk integration lets you drill right down into your support data to give you detailed insights into both customer queries and team performance. The connection between the two apps pulls all of your Teamwork Desk data into Easy Insight so you can build your own custom reports and dashboards — or use some pre-built templates — to quickly pull the information that’s most important to your business.
Even with the world in a state of flux, businesses have to continue serving customers, and support teams have to adapt to their new environment. But making the transition from working together in the office to remote support can be a tricky affair. We understand completely because we at Freshworks are in the same boat.
Senior writer Matt Haughey explains what’s new and what’s moved in the latest Slack desktop experience
Senior writer Matt Haughey explains what’s new and what’s moved in the latest Slack desktop experience
Today we released Zulip Desktop 5.0.0, fixing multiple critical security issues as well as several other important issues. Huge thanks to Matt Austin for responsibly reporting CVE-2020-10856, CVE-2020-10857, and CVE-2020-10858, and helping validate the fixes.
For companies in competitive markets, customer support is a key differentiator. In fact, it can be one of the key reasons a customer decides to renew or churn. But with customer expectations higher than ever, and modern support no longer involving only simple, repeated questions, your front line is often dealing with a high volume of tickets across multiple channels that involve product and process complexity.
