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Why Metadata is as Valuable as the Data Itself: The Information Innovation Podcast

What is metadata? Metadata is what enables you to find Spotify songs and Netflix movies. It is just as useful in enterprise document management for tagging files and documents so that they can be found later. In this podcast, Treve Clayton of New Zealand based Docsmart helps give perspective on why metadata is just as important as the data itself.

How real-time chat helped financial institutions respond to COVID-19

The first few weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns were chaotic for organizations in every industry. As financial institutions adapted and responded to the COVID-19 outbreak, many security leaders turned to FS-ISAC’s Connect app, the real-time chat feature powered by Mattermost, to connect with other teams and collaborate on response plans.

OneDesk - How to Create Multiple Customer Portals/Knowledgebases

OneDesk allows you to create as many unique portals or knowledgebases as you need, and you can customize each one to be unique from the others. Here’s how to create a new portal and knowledgebase in OneDesk. OneDesk combines Help Desk & Project Management software into a single application. OneDesk also includes customer-facing applications: real-time chat, customizable webforms, and a customer portal. These integrated applications allow you to serve your customers while conveniently working on your projects in one platform.

How Centralized Communication Benefits Your Team

How many projects do you have on your plate right now? We live in a world where, at any given moment, we could be working on five things at once: team projects, matrixed projects, individual projects, and more. When you’re trying to keep all of the balls in the air, what’s a straightforward simple thing that can minimize stress and have a positive impact? Centralized communication.

TeamSuccess Short Demo

The cost of acquiring new customers is much greater than what it costs to retain existing ones. A 5% decrease in monthly churn can result in 50% more revenue over a five year period. The best way to protect and expand your core business is to ensure your customers are succeeding with your product. With TeamSuccess, this has never been easier. Your customer success managers can actively monitor your customers and make sure they are continuously receiving their expected value.

TeamSupport 2021

TeamSupport is an award-winning customer support software company built specifically for the unique needs of B2B (business-to-business) companies. Created by B2B support thought leaders who have lived through the challenges of being a B2B company in a B2C (business-to-consumer) support world, TeamSupport has evolved to become the industry leader in creating a single source B2B customer support to success solution.

Cue the Confetti: Celebrating Milestones from 2020 and Preparing for the Road Ahead

“Every opportunity that a company has to celebrate something, no matter how small or large that something is, they really should take advantage of it to lift the morale of the employees.”1 That’s what Matthew Jarzynski, vice president, human resources, Synergy, advises businesses as 2020 works its way into the history books.

How we automated the handling of MySQL primary failovers in DBaaS

[In part I of this blog series we saw an overview of our DBaaS design. In this blog (part II) we discuss the automated MySQL primary failover design in some detail.] We use the hashicorp consul and a custom consul watcher service, along with the orchestrator service, to inject proxySQL route changes in the event of a MySQL primary failure in a shard. Consul cluster

What Is Customer Interaction?

In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about customer interactions, how to manage them, and how to perfect them. You’ll also find information like: By the end of the article, you’ll know everything you need to interact with customers and teach your teams how to master every customer interaction they have. Let’s get started.