We are happy to announce that we are selected as one of the 20 most promising conversational platforms by CIOReview. For the uninitiated, CIO Review is a popular technology print magazine containing the latest tech news, articles, and insights from various industries. CIO Review lists articles from top CIO’s, CTO’s and CEO’s of organizations, globally. CIO Review has also selected Workativ as Company of the Year and provides more details in their interview article.

Providing excellent customer service is a necessity for any e-commerce store. No matter how good your online storefront is, you will always have some customers who have questions or concerns regarding the payment or refund process. And when your customers need you, you need to be around to provide assistance. However, this does not necessarily mean that you need to have a round-the-clock staff of agents online for 24/7 support.

Customer relations are the basis for forming loyal customers. Strong customer relations strategies will ensure a strong emotional connection from the customer to a brand, making them brand advocates. This is why ensuring great experiences with customers is vital to any business. So, how do you strengthen customer relations? What does “customer relations” entail?

We think it’s safe to say that no organization has made it through the peak of the pandemic easily. But COVID-19 Benchmark data tells us that some have managed to adapt to constant uncertainty and continue supporting their customers, even as the world keeps changing.

Long call queues. Frazzled customer service agents. Frustrated customers. When unexpectedly high call volume hits a company—especially smaller ones with fewer resources on hand—the effects can be far-reaching. From customer satisfaction rates dropping to an overall impact on the customer experience, high call volume can pose a significant challenge to contact centers scrambling to satisfy customer inquiries.

Here are the newest integrations from Zendesk to help your agents provide great customer experiences.

Reports. We all have to run them, and read them, and receive them, or submit them, and definitely explain them. But sometimes we get so caught up in the actions surrounding reports that we neglect to actually understand them. As a customer service professional, you have all sorts of data at your fingertips.

Is your business using Okta for Identity and Access Management? Then you might know how manually provisioning and deprovisioning users can be cumbersome for your IT team. Every new hire or company exit requires timely modifications to a user’s account. As a result, IT spend inordinate amounts of time on these processes and are distracted from other priorities, and your end-users suffer delays in productivity if their accounts aren’t configured correctly.

Research shows that companies that excel at customer experience have 1.5 times more engaged employees than companies with a record of poor customer experience. It’s also clear that companies who invest in employee experience can see a higher ROI than those who don’t. So what should you exactly do to keep your employees happy? You can start by automating some of your IT processes so that employees can self-serve themselves.

In the rush to invest in tools that provide more insights about the customer journey and help provide better customer experience, businesses may have overlooked another powerful tool for improving the customer experience—the employee experience also referred to as EX. Companies that actively work to engage their employees outperform their competitors by 147%.