Getting a Head Start in Software Asset Management
SAM can deliver significant benefits, but where do you start? Instead of being daunting, SAM needs to be broken down into achievable goals which provide an obvious benefit to the organization.
Browse Business Software Categories
C
GoToAssist White Paper: ASP – The Great Customer Experience
There are two certainties in the support world: Customer expectations are on the rise, and support organizations must effectively differentiate from the competition to be successful.
GoToAssist White Paper: Driving IT Help Desk Efficiency with Customer Centric Remote Support
The IDC predicts that by 2011, 73 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile, inevitably increasing the pressure on the IT help desk. That’s why more companies are turning to Web-based, customer-centric remote support to support a burgeoning remote workforce.
Customer Intimacy with Assisted Support
Self-service continues to rock the support world because it drastically frees up representatives’ time and reduces expenses. But are there hidden costs of self-service?
Measuring the Business Impact of Support
Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured – despite the influence of support on higher revenue; customer satisfaction and loyalty; and increased productivity.
Delivering Improved Service More Efficiently
This new Ziff Davis White Paper examines new strategies for improving operations and exceeding client expectations, despite today’s economic climate. Remote service delivery is proving to be a strategic ally in providing premium service to clients while enabling you to cut costs.
It’s Time to Review – and Renew – Your Telecommuting Policy
Most companies will save money by formalizing their telecommuting policies and standardizing support practices. Informal policies and ad hoc support result in inconsistencies about who can telecommute and what costs the company covers. Additionally, absent a formal policy, IT support costs will be higher when nonstandard and personal devices are connecting to the network.
Key Tenets in Service Desk Organization Redesign
The growing movement to improve IT service delivery and support has led many companies to rethink the structure and composition of their service desks. When planning such a reorganization, IT management must keep in mind that customers of the support organization do not have technology problems, they have business problems. The technology is merely a tool that these users need to use to accomplish a business task. With this in mind, the result is a set of basic principles that should guide organizational design and planning.
TechExcel ServiceSuite – Apply the ITIL Framework with Confidence
Businesses increasingly view information technology as a strategic investment – an investment that is expected to align with the larger goals of the company and deliver competitive advantages. Well-defined IT service management processes ensure that the business is not only ready for change, but that it may take a proactive approach and push for changes that make the company more competitive and profitable.
People + Processes + Technology: Creating a Winning Formula for Customer Support
Service desks can employ the best agents in the world, or run the most sophisticated technologies, but without effectively combining the two, and directing their interactions based on sound processes, they won’t deliver service and support that differentiates. Some service transformation tools, such as remote support, not only improve customer service delivery, but positively impact employees and business processes as well.