Your company has a very busy support helpdesk. Tickets volumes are high. Support agents are backlogged. Your team budget feels stretched. Are these signs telling you something? Maybe it’s time to open a self-service channel for your employees. It’s hard to know when the right time is to launch such…
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How to build a wiki or knowledge base in Slack
With Slack becoming the operating system of the workplace, it is increasingly important to integrate more and more workplace tools with the platform. Leading the charge, is fully integrating internal knowledge and documentation with Slack. Let’s first take a moment to consider what one would ideally like out of a…
Why self-serve support and Slack go hand-in-hand
Companies that depend on a centralized body of knowledge to propel productivity know that you can build a robust, comprehensive, validated and accurate body of knowledge to power self-serve support, but if you don’t make it easy to access where people work, it will collect dust. For this reason, knowledge…
Accelerate DevOps issue management by connecting Slack, Confluence and Jira Software with Obie
It is now common practice to have Slack powering communication and collaboration for DevOps teams that are seeking faster iteration and continuity in their workflows. Bringing access to team knowledge to that Slack-centric workflow decreases distractions and increases productivity by enabling self-serve support directly within the channel where work happens.…
Alternative solutions for FAQ and Q&A in Slack
The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and Obie. We wrote this article for the purposes of evaluating these platforms, side by side, in as unbiased a form as we can be. This article is meant to be a helpful resource for organizations who…
How to accelerate DevOps teams by bringing knowledge to Slack
Slack is redefining internal workflows by establishing itself as the operating system of the modern workplace. As more productivity tools continue to invest in deeper and deeper integrations with the Slack platform, they solidify it’s status at the nucleus of operations. This of course, extends to knowledge management, and Slack’s…
Why knowledge management is a mission critical integration for the DevOps workflow
DevOps has captured the imagination of an entire generation of tech professionals with its irresistible allure and promises of hyper-efficiency and highly. But what is Devops exactly? We love the definition that Alessandro Diaferia shared in a recent blog and his Twitter account: Practically speaking, DevOps is a term that…
Slack Wiki Alternatives – Confluence, Guru, Bloomfire, Notion, Tettra, Slab, Slite, Obie
The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and Obie. We wrote this article for the purposes of evaluating these platforms, side by side, in as unbiased a form as we can be. This article is meant to be a helpful resource for organizations who…
Use Slack as a helpdesk – atSpoke, Halp and Obie
Slack is becoming the work operating system (OS) of most modern organizations. Work flows through Slack, issues flow through Slack and questions end up in, you guessed it: Slack. That being the case, IT is looking for ways to use Slack as a helpdesk. There are several flavors of the…
How to increase ticket deflection with Confluence and Obie for IT Support desks using Jira Service Desk and Slack
For companies that employ a full service IT support desk, powered by technology like Jira Service Desk and Slack, there is likely a nagging need to increase the ticket deflection ratio with self-serve strategies. Strategies that have been implemented to some degree of success might include: Investing in a comprehensive…