Would you recreate what you have if you could
build your IT operation from scratch?
Would you like to reduce service
request for minor issues, and free up Help Desk for something more
important?
Would you like to cut cost without
having to cut help desk or customer service staff?
How would you like to shorten the
lifecycle of a help desk ticket, and so able to get more works done in less
time?
You can do what Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Telesat
Canada, LenCrafters, and many organization do. Although in difference
industry, they have one thing in common. They all turned to GWI c.Support
Service Desk solution to increase efficiency and productivity of their
IT department and Customer Services.
Running an IT Department or a Customer Services today without
help desk solution is almost like running a business without computer or
some kind of information technology. Today's IT Department has to deal with
ever changing technology, and most IT staffs are overworked and abused!
They work very hard, yet don't seem to get everything done at the end of
each working day. There are always
more works waiting for them the next day, and the next. IT staff are tired,
and some quit as a result.
Overworked and struggled to get works
done, many service requests were lost,
forgotten, or completely overlooked.
Overall productivity suffered as a
result. It does not have to be this way.
You can improve your internal IT operation. You can make
it more efficient, cut down ticket turn
around time, provide faster, more efficient service, and
trouble resolution. If
your IT Department still handling user service requests the old way, like
being interrupted to take a
phone call or check email in the middle of an important task, or even a personal
visit to ask for high priority, maybe it is time to implement help desk software. A well defined IT
service management means more than just having highly skillful and reliable
IT staff. Help desk solution is another important component of a successful
IT operation.
A well managed help Desk solution not
only increases efficiency, save cost,
ensure that the business is ready for
change, take a proactive
approach, and push for change that make
your organization more competitive and
profitable. GWI c.Support Service
Desk is such a help desk solution
both your IT Department and Customer Service
can take advantage of.
GWI c.Support Service Desk is a highly-scalable service and
support application for IT Department and Customer Service. It met ITIL standard, and is ready to handle your unique processes and methodologies,
with enhanced permissions to enable segmented user bases or departments
within the same instance of the product. It is developed with an
"out-of-the-box" ease-of-use in mind, yet is powerful enough to automate
your most complex workflows and handle today's service functions like:
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Incident Management
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Problem Management
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Change Management
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Asset Management
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Service Level Management
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Workflow & Approvals
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Knowledge Management
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Self Service Dashboard
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Reporting
Ideally, end users who need help can and should enter service request
online. They maybe able to solve some minor issues by searching
and viewing knowledge bases and FAQ first, which is a component of the c.Support Service Desk. This end user self-support feature saves
both
help desk support staff and the end users. End users solved some
minor problems on their own, and at the same time frees up IT
help desk valuable time to work on other tasks.
End users can still call or email their service request if they
don't want to take the time to enter the service request online,
but drop in visit to ask for high priority should become a thing
of the past. This save everyone time.
As one of the most important and frequently used functions, c.Support’s
Incident Management functionality can assist IT support staff in issue
tracking and accomplishing quick restoration of service from start to the
end of each issue; including incident creation, related incidents such as
assets, problems, scheduling, approval cycles, categories, routing based on
location, skill, name, and group, service escalation, service contracts,
access to knowledge base. IT Manager, IT support staff, and end users can
check status of service requests. No more missing or forgotten service
requests.
Integrating a knowledge management process into your service activities enables IT manager to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge throughout your organization thus creating improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, and the general development of collaborative practices.
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c.Support's Knowledge Management functionality let you capture knowledge from resolved incidents, make expert knowledge available to front line support staff or even end users, search results ranked on relevance and previously determined usefulness. Integrate knowledge entries into the ticketing process help reduce ticket count, allow end users to search for solutions to save time and reduce downtime. Why reinvent the wheel if IT support staff and end users can simply search and view knowledge base to find quick solutions to problems?
After an issue is taken care of, the cause of the issue may remain - It is time to create a Problem record. It tracks the process of troubleshooting the underlying issue until a resolution is discovered. Rather than update the work on every affected incident, the incidents are linked to one Problem record and when the problem is resolved, all of the associated incidents are also resolved.
c.Support’s Problem Management functionality includes problem record creation from the Incident screen and c.Support Desktop, related assets, incidents, changes, permission functionality for controlling Problem-related activities.
Without proper asset management, IT Help Desk won't have enough information to prepare for some service request. A phone call or email to supplier just to find out if the device is still under warranty, hardware configuration, device driver, or software license number and number of license are a waste of everyone's time, and it slow down your service process too. As well it is difficult to make informed decisions on
future
purchases.
c.Support's Asset Management can greatly assist your organization in running a smooth IT center. Do you purchase new hardware or pay for maintenance on existing equipment? Does the cost of upgrading an application outweigh the cost of downtime when the older version fails? Any asset or service that is supported by the IT center should be documented and its
history
tracked.
This
will
assist
you in answering those important questions that will impact the future of the service desk, and tracking asset and service including asset owners, groups and types for establishing asset relationships and access, audit history, software license tracking.
Other components of c.Support Service Desk that can increase efficiency and productivity of your IT help desk and customer service included
Change Management,
Service Level Management,
Workflow & Approvals,
Self Service Dashboard, and powerful
Reporting.
The best to find out more about GWI c.Support Service Desk is to ask for online demonstration, or even download trial and test if yourself.
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Service desks are
the main contact
point for
communications to
the IT department.
This front line is
responsible for
restoring services
to a normal status
in the quickest and
most thorough manner
possible. Most
organization have
come to rely on IT
to run their day to
day business, so
much so that a
business can not
function without
efficient IT
operation.The 80's
style of managing
service requests
with
paper-reliant issue
tracking, or the
spreadsheet just
does not track
and manage issues efficiently
today.
As a former
Technical Support
myself, I
know this so well.
It is not
uncommon to have a
service request
to one tech support,
and while one
support staff
start
working, another
service request call
would get taken by
another support
staff, and before
you know it,
multiple support
staffs would be
working on the same
incident. This show
you how hard it
is to depend on
paper base record
keeping.
There was no
web-base help
desk solution
available that
allow each
support staff to
enter, track,
manage, and
coordinate
issues at the
time. With
today's
standard, record
was not well
kept, and time
was not spent
efficiently. As
a result of
inefficient and
uncompetitive
business
operation, the
company I worked
for at the
time control and serviced
over 90% of
public library
in Ontario is
no longer exist
today . Just
because that was
how most
companies
operated 20
years ago does
not mean we
should follow
the same old
path to failure today.
With the the
recent downturn of
the economy,
providing your
IT service desk with a
tool to track and
automate many tasks
is now critical; by
properly recording
the information, the
status is clear to
anyone at any point
during the life of
the issue.
c.Support Service
Desk can
assist in issue
tracking and
accomplishing quicker
restoration of
service.
- Other
benefits for using
help desk software
to aautomate
and streamline your IT services include
faster,
more efficient service, and
trouble resolution,
reduce help desk calls for minor
issues, record and track each support
incident, shorten the lifecycle
of a help desk ticket, flexible routing lets you
get each issue to the right
person at the right time,
capture knowledge-base from
resolved incidents, and make
expert knowledge available to
front line support staff,
reporting tools makes it easy to
keep on top of your issues, track information important
to your organization &
industry.
IT Help
Desk and Customer
Services are not the
only departments who
can benefit from
help desk software.
Sales, distribution,
warehouse, Human
Resource, and even
Accounting
Department all can
take advantage of GWI c.SUpport
Service Desk to
track issues and
increase efficiency
and productivity. As
other departments in
your organization
get familiar with
help desk solution,
they too will find
ways it can be used
in their own
department.
Eventually the whole
organization become
more competitive.
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