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Top Help Desk Automation Ideas

Automations are rules you can set-up in your help desk system which perform actions on behalf of your team. Help desk automations are a necessary feature of a help desk system. They cut down on work, allowing your employees to focus on achieving more meaningful goals. Automations in OneDesk are particularly powerful, as they provide a method to manage moving parts, enable organization, and create an optimized workflow.

The many benefits of project management automation

When most professionals hear the term “project management,” the first thing that comes to mind isn’t exactly a great image. Pedantic planning meetings. A never-ending sea of task completion emails. The project manager stopping by (yes, again) to ask about task status, interrupting the person from actually working on the task. Before the project managers boycott us, we’re secretly on your side.

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5 Business Automation Workflow Solutions

Business automation workflow solutions help accelerate your business processes. There are a wide variety of these solutions on the market, and they can be used to automate just about any process in your business. You name it, there's probably a workflow solution that can help. This guide will explore five business automation workflow solutions for your organization. Whether you're looking to automate your sales processes, customer support operations, or marketing campaigns, there's a workflow solution out there that can help.

Why Customer Service Automation is Essential for Businesses Today

It’s no secret that people expect great customer service wherever they go. A survey found that 95% of customers say that customer service is key for brand loyalty. More than 60% of those same customers say that they have deserted a brand and switched over to a rival company because of poor customer service. However, any growing business is bound to face the difficulties of scaling their customer service operations, especially if they’re old-fashioned.

Announcing Courier Automations: Application Logic for Notifications

We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature for the Courier platform: Courier Automations. Courier Automations is a toolset that includes both an API and a visual builder that allows anyone to easily configure logic for notification workflows. Need to send a reminder to class attendees 10 minutes before the class starts? Need to page an on-call engineer on multiple channels until they respond? These use cases and more can be achieved quickly and easily with Automations.

What is the future of marketing automation?

A 2019 survey on the state of marketing automation found that 75% of companies were already using some form of marketing automation. Of those respondents, 66% indicated that the tools had been either ‘moderately’ or ‘very’ effective. The same survey looked into the leading marketing automation tools and determined that the top three were social media post scheduling (85%), email marketing (75%), and social media advertising (58%).

How to Use Automation to Streamline IT Support

Though change is not a new concept in IT -- one might say it is intrinsic to the very nature of it -- the rate of change has accelerated dramatically over the last few years. We’ve recognized that people are everything and that we need to use technology to do more of the heavy lifting. This blog will look at how to automate customer service, streamlining IT support and improving your organization’s overall service delivery.

5 Tips for Helping Your Workforce Adapt to Automation

There has been a rapid incline in the use of automation in many day-to-day activities, making life a bit simpler. Whether it’s through the implementation of chatbots or automated reporting tools, automation has become a new norm. It’s meant to make workloads a lot easier, as well as improve efficiency. However, not everyone may see it that way. The simple notion of automation taking over your job can cause a lot of stress, anger, and/or anxiety.

Will HR Workflow Automation Ever Rule the World?

Certainly yes, why not? We all know that the HR teams are the backbone of offices of all shapes and sizes, as they are the ones who identify and bring potential and skilful resources to the company. The automation of the HR workflows would beyond any doubt, help the HR department save time from doing the repetitive mundane tasks of talent acquisition, hiring, employee onboarding, employee management, payroll, performance appraisals, and others.