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…
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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…
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 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…
Do your employees waste too much time and lose productivity searching for and sharing knowledge, documents and files at work?
51% of employees avoid sharing documents because they can’t find them or it would take too long to do so. Igloo 2020 State of the Digital Workplace report This statistic highlights that there are some key failures in the tools and processes chosen for communication and collaboration by organizations. Employees…
How to enable self-service IT support in a remote environment
Ignoring the shift to work-from-home during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has been on the rise for a long time. Between 2005 to 2017, remote working arrangements increased by 159%. Today that number is at 4.7 million (3.4% of the US population). Even with the difficulties of the pandemic,…
Accessing a company knowledge base while working remotely
The COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak has pushed companies from around the globe into a sudden and unexpected remote-working experiment in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus. Remote work requires employees to be armed with a full stack of tools that enables them to meet their daily work goals…
Designing your support desk to maximize ticket deflection
Ticket deflection is when a customer service or IT helpdesk ticket is avoided by way of a self-serve help mechanism. This means that an employee will be able to solve their own issue without requiring the intervention of a support professional or a service ticket being created. By allowing your…
Fixing Frequently Asked Questions in Slack
A show of hands if you’ve never seen this in your Slack workspace before… Nobody? Shocking… When Slack was born, it was a watershed moment for frequently asked questions just like this. It gave them a new home and IT Managers and Support Teams rejoiced with a nice tidy new…