ServiceDesk Features

The ServiceDesk application is a specialized version of a Dynamic Case Management application, but it has some unique features. Most of them are centered around the ability to interact with your customers in the most efficient and friendly manner possible.

• Service Portal - The Service Portal lets your customers file cases and track them. It also provides:

• Case Tracking - A page that lets your customers file news cases and track the progress of existing ones.
• Knowledge Base - A way to publish articles your customers can use.

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• Community - A way for users to help themselves, that lets an agent quickly create a case from a community post.
• Branding - Change the logo image and background color your customers see.

Note: When your customers visit your support URL, they see your Service Portal. (An internal who logs in, on the other hand, can see either the Service Portal or the Agent Portal at the same URL.) Because that URL is intimately connected to the ServiceDesk portal, you can run only one copy of ServiceDesk at a time. (However, you can have as many DCM apps and Database apps as you want.)

• Account-specific SLAs - Every Dynamic Case Management comes with default SLAs that can be customized. Those Service Level Agreements define response and resolution times that cause reminders to be sent out at appropriate intervals. The ServiceDesk application goes a step further. It lets you define different SLAs for different Accounts, for situations in which you are contractually obligated to meet specific goals, with penalties when those agreements are breached.

• Surveys - Customer Satisfaction Surveys can be automatically sent out when a Case is complete, to track customer satisfaction levels.

• Case Analytics - The Case Analytics feature gathers statistics for each agent, each day. Data is displayed in the Case Analytics Dashboard. Additional reporting can be done using the Case Analytics Object.

• Enhanced Email Integration

• Pre-defined Email Channel - An Email Channel comes pre-defined when you install the application, so you can experiment with it and see how it works.
• Pre-configured Email Templates - When a case comes in on a given channel, the Email Template to use for responses is pre-defined. Any text an agent types is plugged into the template, and the resulting message is sent to the customer.
• Quick Text - Define standard "boilerplate" Quick Text that agents can add to a message with a mouse click.
• Knowledge Base Integration - Search for knowledge base articles and insert a link into a message, all with the click of the mouse.