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Effective call deflection with AI + Automation to reduce Helpdesk costs

Every time the Help Desk phone rings, it costs your organization, money. One of the best methods for businesses to save money is to automate time-consuming tasks, which, of course, takes the cake when it comes to delivering support. It is important to invest in quality support for your employees, especially as it helps them be more productive. Let’s look at some of the cost metrics that workplace support incurs.

The modern employee and modern IT help desk self-service

Why is it essential to meet the demands of Gen Z employees who are the latest entrants in the workplace? By 2020, an estimated 50 percent of the world’s workforce will be millennials, which means that by now, most organizations are already seeing an influx of Gen Z workers. The new generation of office-goers co-exist with several generations of co-workers, but the difference between older and new generations are in their priorities, complexities, and challenges.

The Service Desk- Trends and priorities for 2020

As we enter into 2020, looking back into 2019, let’s delve into a report from SDI to know about the expectations of service desk professionals for the coming months. The report provides specific data about the service desk – the benefits and struggles with ITSM tools, also outlining key trends, pain areas, and the priorities for 2020 for professionals. One of the key trends seems to be the uptake in AI and chatbot technologies.

5 Help Desk Tasks Everyone Should Automate

According to a recent study, 89% of customers switch seller or service provider, if they find the quality of service is poor. Undeniably, a high level of service delivery tops the wishlist of almost every customer. Another study found out that Tech-based companies such as hardware, software, or cloud specialists are affected the most concerning meeting the expectations of customers. That’s why automating some tasks are of absolute necessity.

Transform your Slack channel into an AI-driven digital help desk for your employees

According to Enlyft, there are around 135,711 companies that currently use Slack as collaborative software. Chances are, your business might be one of those 135,711 companies. Though using Slack as a means of communication between members of the same team or different teams in a company leads to productive work culture, companies can leverage the instant messaging platform even more. How, you ask? By turning Slack into your business’ employee support hub. Here’s why.

Onboarding Challenges IT Service Desk Face with New Agents

The IT Service Desk is a primary point of engagement between users and an IT organization. To put it in simple terms, it is the single point of contact between the service providers and users for day-to-day activities. Typically, a service desk manages service disruptions and service requests besides handling user communications or outages and planned changes to services.

5 Reasons Why You Should Try AI-Based IT Support for Your Business

Artificial Intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, computer systems to be precise. These processes primarily include learning, reasoning, and self-correction. Machine learning is a term that is synonymous with AI. As the name suggests, machine learning refers to empowering machines to learn by themselves using the data provided and predict the best possible outcome of a complex problem.

Reasons why AI will enhance; not replace support agents

In the last decade, automation has brought about considerable changes in simple and complex processes for quicker output. In the call center industry, programmed automation has enhanced customer experience and made a significant impact on support efficiency. With artificial intelligence being at the forefront of change, there is apprehension over whether AI will take over end-user support completely.

How AI and Automation is making a hugely positive difference to the Helpdesk

The growth of Artificial Intelligence has had an enormous spurt in the last few years. The use of AI in Helpdesk Automation is reducing the burden on professionals. Chatbots integrates with IT Service Management(ITSM) and acts as a virtual support agent.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI is here, what's next?

Better analysis on how to shape the business outcomes. Did you know the UK government plans to invest 17.3 million pounds for a university research on Artificial Intelligence (AI)? This action may boomerang 654 Billion pounds back into the country’s economy. That’s the potential grandeur of applying AI in different fields and industries of the world today! The UK government seems to have made the right move and at an opportune time too. AI is the intelligence exhibited by machines.