This article was originally published as a guest post written by Chris Buttenham in TechCrunch on March 2, 2021. Well before the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations across the globe to shutter the office environment that most of us are familiar with, there was a paradigm shift happening within the modern…
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The 4 most powerful and important features that your next IT Support desk management tool must have
Its never too early to enable a self-serve internal support channel for your organization, but at some point after many repeated annoyances, the evidence becomes so painfully obvious that you simply cannot deny addressing the need any longer. Refusing self-serve support is both costly and unsustainable in companies the midst…
Managing knowledge through the four stages of company growth
As companies evolve through the various stages of growth, their needs change from a knowledge management perspective as well. If you’re not modernizing your knowledge management strategy to adapt to the demands of growth, you are missing out on opportunities to improve productivity and get the most return on the…
December 2020 Changelog
Here’s what we’ve been working on for you in December, all wrapped up and ready for the holidays… Obie Training channel The #obie-training channel is a special dedicated channel where Obie gives more insight into how decisions are made. This channel is designed to help you better understand how Obie…
How IT can leverage AI for streamlined support
The average IT support ticket takes three calendar days to resolve. Bhavin Shah, CEO of Moveworks In the ITSM realm, there are recurring themes that cause frustratingly long backlogs in support queues and, as a result, increase departmental overhead costs to undesirable levels. Not surprisingly, IT department managers seek cost-saving solutions to…
How IT help-desks can leverage AI for ticket deflection
We all want more ticket deflection, don’t we? If you work in IT support, you most likely have an opinion on its value relative to your workload and role. For many, IT helpdesk ticket deflection is the holy grail of internal support. Amid the seemingly never ending flow of service…
How to leverage AI to decrease frequently asked questions and enable help desk automation in Slack
For scaling enterprises that have internal support (IT) or client facing (Sales & Customer Support) teams that live in Slack, it’s almost certain that you’ve identified a problem with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)—causing reduced productivity and a backlog for your service team. Most likely, you have enacted a number of…
The role of AI in IT Support and Customer Success
Are you seeing a pattern in your customer service calls or at your internal IT help desk? What do those patterns look like? How do these patterns impact your internal and external SLAs? What strategies have you tested to fix the problem? What worked and what didn’t? You might be…