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5 Service Level Agreement Metrics to Track Service Fulfillment

Are you already keeping a close eye on Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics? As part of your IT Service Management (ITSM) strategy, these metrics help you not only meet but exceed your service delivery goals. Following the age-old rule of service delivery, “The customer is always right,” organizations worldwide strive to provide efficient service to their customers, clients, or internal stakeholders.

Mastering the Help Desk Staffing Model: Practical Strategies for Success

As the complexity of the help desk staffing model continues to grow, businesses grapple with essential questions – When is the right time to expand the team? How to identify and hire the best-fit candidates? And what's the ideal headcount for an efficient service desk?

How to Create a Service Level Agreement (SLA): Video Tutorial

Incorporating Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to your IT Service Management (ITSM) strategy sets common expectations for all the parties involved. They provide agents a clear framework to solve requests, helping businesses to meet customers’ needs and maintain high service standards. But how do you exactly create one? What do you need to have in mind? That’s what we’ll show you in this article!

How to Use Help Desk Priority Levels to Prioritize Support Tickets

Setting help desk priority levels ensures every ticket is categorized and solved according to urgency and relevance. It creates the foundation for a proactive support strategy, helping your team to meet resolution times and avoid major issues or disruptions. For them to work successfully, you need a clear help desk ticketing process flow and InvGate Service Desk to automate it. If you have the two, you're set to succeed. How? Keep reading to find out!

Setting up InvGate Service Desk's Virtual Agent For Microsoft Teams

If you were looking for help desk software that integrates with Microsoft Teams, InvGate Service Desk was already your go-to option. However, our MS Teams integration has reached a whole new level of proficiency. Connecting Microsoft Teams with InvGate Service Desk turns the messaging platform into a formal communication channel while centralizing interactions in the backend, providing you with a double benefit: improving the agents' and end-users' experience and simplifying tracking and measuring all service desk interactions in one place.

Abby Sininger on How to Become a Help Desk Technician

Have you ever wondered how to become a Help Desk Technician? Success in this dynamic field hinges on three crucial ingredients: adaptability, dedication, and the ability to build meaningful connections. In the 68th episode of Ticket Volume, our host and InvGate Product Specialist, Matt Beran, engages in a captivating conversation with Abby Sininger, a rising star in the world of IT.

How to Integrate Multiple Help Desks Into One ITSM Solution

Managing multiple help desks across different departments and teams is challenging. And working with various vendors adds an extra layer of complexity, inefficiency, and expenditure. But there's a way to integrate multiple help desks into one ITSM solution, as you can see in this video! Having a single point of contact has many benefits, including: So, what are you waiting for? Unify the help desks of multiple departments into InvGate Service Desk and consolidate your IT, HR, Finances, and Maintenance service offering!

The 4 Main Help Desk Roles And Responsibilities

Establishing clear help desk roles and responsibilities is crucial to IT support – especially if you're building your service desk from scratch. Otherwise, your team won't have clear guidelines, causing overlaps, misunderstandings, wasted time, and a poor service experience. The key to service desk staffing relies on two main aspects: the needed expertise to fill the different levels of support and the roles you need to cover in each tier. Here, we'll tackle the second one.

10 Service Desk Automation Ideas You Need to Apply ASAP

Help desk activities involve so many manual tasks that the job can quickly become tedious — leading to human error and high turnover. Service desk automation helps you avoid all that and allows IT support teams to focus on more complex and critical tasks. Some of the benefits that well-implemented automation can bring you include: Explore X InvGate Service Desk automation ideas in this video, and boost your support efficiency!

Customer Service Week: 5 Ideas to Celebrate And Reward Service Desk Agents

When the calendar flips to October, it reveals a special occasion that deserves attention and appreciation: Customer Service Week. From October 2-6, 2023, this week is a tribute to the unsung heroes who are behind the service desk and go above and beyond to deliver exceptional customer experiences. This year's theme, "You Make the Magic Happen," adds a touch of enchantment to the celebration, emphasizing the pivotal role of service desk agents in creating memorable interactions.