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Overcoming Customer Support Challenges in Educational Institutions

Overcoming Customer Support Challenges in Educational Institutions   As the school year begins, IT customer support personnel across the country gear up for an intense back-to-school experience as campuses are flooded with students, faculty, staff, and alumni—each bringing multiple devices and each arriving with the expectation of fast and efficient IT support should the need […]

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Helping Students and Faculty Help Themselves

Helping Students and Faculty Help Themselves   When an end user can easily look up, locate, and apply their own resolution, we have what’s called a level 0 self-service. The simplest example of this is a password reset. In an automated password reset, the end-user clicks a link, enters some identifying information, and then changes […]

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Seven Powerful Reasons You Need Efficient Ticket Management

IT admins, help desk technicians, and support staff members are constantly bombarded with service requests. Involving everything from routine maintenance to more complex tasks, the IT department is always busy maintaining company productivity. Without efficient help desk software to assist in the creation, routing, and tracking of support requests, among other functions, support specialists can struggle […]

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Reduce Time, Cost, and Risk: Integrate ITAM With Your Help Desk

Discovering and managing IT assets can be a tough job for IT teams—especially when it comes to keeping track of IT inventory. The IT department is responsible for managing assets and liabilities as well as collecting asset data, which means keeping track of IT inventory to reduce unplanned expenditures and reduce time, cost, and risk. […]

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Who Benefits the Most from Your Help Desk Tool?

Help desk software helps companies resolve tech issues faster, eliminate menial tasks, and allow IT departments to resolve complaints more efficiently. Through the organization of information, streamlined workflows, and the elimination of time-consuming manual processes, support specialists can focus on what they do best: addressing requests that demand their particular expertise. Too often, help desk […]

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Eye-Opening Discoveries About Help Desk Security and What to Do

It’s every customer and employee’s right to ask for and receive assistance from the IT help desk. The help desk team is obligated to, well, help. It is also their duty to maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of any and all privileged information. This means that in addition to providing technical support quickly and efficiently, […]

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Implementing a Help Desk Disaster Recovery Plan

Have you ever considered what will happen to your help desk in the case of disaster? Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) planning, today, applies as much to technological assets, such as the software solutions that support your business, as physical property. The reason being is that losing sensitive data or access to business-critical […]

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Looking for the Help Desk of the Future? It’s Already Here.

What do IT professionals—in every industry and organization across the world—have in common? Their reliance on the IT help desk, which serves both as the repository for all IT issues and as a conduit between themselves and their organization’s end-users. The functionality of the IT service desk is vital to the success of any company, […]

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Three Simple Tools for Improving Customer Service

The quality of the customer service your company provides cannot only make or break your reputation; it can have a significant impact your bottom line. According to the [24]7, Inc. 2016 Customer Engagement Report, almost half (47%) of customers would take their business to a competitor within a day of experiencing poor customer service, and […]

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How to Prioritize Help Desk Tickets When Everything is a Top Priority

Today, most of us depend on some form of help desk support. IT support teams ensure the most uptime possible for systems and processes that keep businesses running smoothly. Their customers and yours rely on the help desk to resolve small glitches and technical hiccups, as well as the major IT problems that threaten to […]

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