It’s a no-brainer that better employee experience equals better customer service. A recent Frost & Sullivan study on Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) found that 89% of surveyed companies felt that improving contact center engagement will significantly enhance the quality of customer experience. And companies that fully adopt WEM solutions are 82% more likely to provide a better quality of customer experience and 96% more likely to achieve overall profitability.

Not getting enough ROI on your internal IT/HR support? Finding your employees constantly frustrated and unproductive? Getting regular bad feedbacks from your customers on your product support? What if I told you there is a single, cost-effective solution to all these? The solution is… wait for it… AI-powered contextual chatbots with automated workflows for business applications. Okay, that was a bit long.

You might be familiar with SolarWinds Inc., the American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. You might even be using their software like SolarWinds Service Desk for IT Service Management. What if there was a way for you to improve the experience of using SolarWinds Service Desk for your employees? There is, actually. It’s called Workativ Assistant.

In May 2016, Adam Hale, now CEO of Sage People, stated that “organizations invest millions in building their customer engagement strategies, but rarely know much about their employees.” This is now more relevant than ever. It is a no-brainer that organizations that invest in employee engagement see huge improvements to their customer experience. Satisfied employees equal satisfied customers. How/where can you start with improving employee experience?

How Freshdesk integration with Workativ Assistant can help speed up workplace support Did you know that after a bad experience with a brand, consumers are four times likely to stop shopping with them? So how can you provide the experience that your customers want? By keeping your employees engaged. Because engaged employees provide better customer service. And better customer service translates to customer retention. Get it?

According to the Zendesk Benchmark, it takes an average of 24.2 hours to provide the first response to an internal support ticket. And internal support teams receive around 492 tickets per month. This means that help desk agents in internal support teams have to spend approximately a whopping 11906.4 hours to solve tickets per month which leads to attrition. Moreover, the cost of manually handling a help desk ticket is $22.

Using Freshservice? Then this blog is for you. Not using Freshservice? Then this blog is for you. Confused? Read on then.

How Jira integration with Workativ Assistant can speed up workplace support You might’ve heard the term “Jira” used by any of the members in your product team at your company irrespective of what role you’re in. To make it clear for you, Jira is actually a tool developed by the Australian Company, Atlassian. It is used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management.

Conversational AI technology is going to be transformational as the possibilities seem to be growing with the spurt in the reach of digital devices, soon augmented with AI-enabled conversational interfaces. From fetching data to answering questions, conversational AI can mimic all that a human agent does but in quicker time, giving users immediate access to information or providing immediate responses.

Previously, on the “Chatbot Best Practices for designing a Conversational Experience with Workativ Assistant” blog, we would’ve delved into the things to do before designing a dialog flow for a chatbot and how to set up the actual dialog using Workativ Assistant’s Dialog Designer and test it. In this blog, we’ll be looking into what all we should do before setting up an automated workflow using Workativ Assistant’s intuitive 3-Step Automation Designer.