Support Strategies: Mastering Help Desk Excellence

Expert guidance on optimizing help desk operations, enhancing service quality, and supporting users effectively

BPO SLAs: How to Prevent and Resolve the Most Common Disputes

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Service Level Agreement (SLA)

What is BPO: Business Process Outsourcing?

BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcing and is the contracting of services to third-party companies that can provide them more inexpensively or more efficiently than your organization. Businesses outsource their work for many reasons but are most commonly looking to decrease costs, expand capabilities, or lessen risks.

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What Is Time To Resolution: How to Calculate and Reduce This Critical Customer Support Metric

Time to Resolution

In increasingly high-pressure business environments, customer support teams face unprecedented pressure to deliver fast, effective support while managing increasingly complex technical environments.

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Incident Escalation: What It Is and How to Design Triggers and Policies

Incident Escalation

We've all been there, stuck on hold with customer support, hoping to be escalated to someone who can actually fix the issue. That's just one situation for escalating incidents, but there can be many other reasons.

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Incident Classification Fully Examined: Best Practices and How-To's

Incident Classification

Incidents are an inevitable part of business operations and are not all created equally. That's where incident classification comes into play.

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Giva's Incident Resolution Guide for IT Leaders and CIOs

Incident Resolution Guide

Every incident resolution in IT Service Management (ITSM) and DevOps starts with a problem. A customer (also known as a user) has a problem, and they need the IT team's help to resolve it.

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Help Desk Automation Fully Examined with How To's and Types of Tools

Help Desk Automation

Help desk automation is one of the most effective ways to improve the service customers get from an organization's help desk.

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Complete Guide to ITSM Ticket Management Plus Workflows and Best Practices

Ticket Management

With technologies in every business now, Information Technology (IT) departments are tasked with providing support for those technologies. But with technologies come problems, and the reporting of those problems by users to IT usually come in the form of service requests, or "tickets".

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7 Knowledge Base Benefits and How to Choose the Best Knowledge Base Software

ITIL Change Management Process

Knowledge base software is an essential component of an IT team's approach to managing Level 1, 2, and 3 support tickets.

A knowledge base is also the foundation for customer-centric self-serve platforms.

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Tier 4 IT Support Fully Explained: External Tech Support

Tier 4 IT Support

Tier 4 IT Support, also known as Level 4 IT Support, is the highest level of support in the IT Service Management (ITSM) system.

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Tier 3 IT Support Fully Explained: Level 3 Tech Support

Tier 3 IT Support

Tier 3 IT Support, also known as Level 3 IT Support, represents the highest level of internal technical support within an IT service management (ITSM) team.

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