As Slack slowly, but surely, challenges (usurps?) email and common word processor productivity suites as the operating system of work, it loses its focus on the core messaging functionality and expands to many more roles. Some of those additional roles are: External messaging (as a secure communication channel for partners…
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Why isn’t my self-service IT helpdesk platform working?
So you’re invested significant resources into a self-serve IT support platform so that it can run on autopilot for the lowest value tasks, but it isn’t working. You have bought a brand new wiki/knowledge base solution like Confluence, but for whatever reason it is underutilized. The same thing happened when…
November 2020 Changelog
Last month, we launched an exciting new FAQ experience to help better organize your FAQs for scale which included the ability to assign non-Obie Administrators verification privileges. With this update, it only made sense to completely re-engineer Obie Content Verification to help ensure knowledge across your organization is up to…
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…
Use Slack as a helpdesk – atSpoke, Halp and 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 blog is meant to be a helpful resource for organizations who…
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…
How to connect Jira Service Desk to Slack to streamline your IT helpdesk
If your organization uses Jira Service Desk (JSD) or as part of your support ticket management platform and Slack to manage internal communication between employees and the IT helpdesk, Obie can streamline ticket management process by merging these workflows and giving support requestors the power to initiate ticket issuance on…