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…
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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…
How startups achieve hockey stick growth with better communication and collaboration in Slack
Startups need every advantage they can gain if they want to achieve exponential growth depicted in pitch deck charts by the iconic shape of the most important piece of equipment for Canada’s favorite pass-time, the hockey stick. There are a lot of things that a startup needs to get right…
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…
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…
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…