Your customer support team lives in Slack. It’s practically their second home. They thrive on its powerful communication and collaboration functionality. But it’s convenience also has drawbacks, and it may be impacting your SLA times negatively . Slack is not a wiki It seems logical, but Slack is not designed…
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What is federated search?
In many workplace settings, searching for documents, files and wikis is a task that is required multiple times per day. Without the propery technology, it can be a significant proactivity inhibitor. In fact, Igloo found that 51% of employees avoid sharing documents because they can’t find them or it would…
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…
Why Slack search isn’t enough for customer success teams
Chances are, your customer success team spends a good amount (probably a majority) of their day in the modern work operating system, Slack. The reason so many teams rely on the Slack platform for this purpose is because it is a tool that enables customer issues to be resolved faster…
Autumn 2020 Changelog
Well, friends, we’ve been teasing an exciting new FAQ experience for a couple of months now and we’re happy to announce that the next evolution of Obie FAQs is here ! FAQ update includes: The ability to better organize your FAQs for scale Assign FAQs to #channels and groups The…
Turning your Confluence workspace into a robust self-service support tool
Confluence is a popular choice for many teams that are looking for a tool to centralize organizational documentation. Popularized by technical teams, Confluence is now finding a home in more teams including customer support and HR/People-ops. What is internal self-serve support? Internal self-serve support is when when employees can solve…
How to search better, faster and more accurately in Slack with modifiers
With most of your company’s internal communications being routed through Slack, important conversations or knowledge are sure to get lost in the annals of your message history. So that’s why Slack has integrated fairly robust search functionality into their platform with some underused utilities available to Slack power users. Many…