Monday, May 23, 2011

Service Automation - an Overview



Service automation is the base for constructing an active data center which accelerates the response time of business as well as ensures that an organization recognizes the cloud computing promise. The main goals of using service automation technology are to increase the business agility, to improve the service delivery and to reduce the risk and cost of business. Service Automation method also helps the service representatives to manage, capture, and resolve the requests of customer support without losing the sight on cross-selling and up-selling opportunities.

The key features of a service automation technology:
  • This technology offers various information to the customers in a controllable and secure manner
  • Ability to update the information automatically
  • Ability for the consumers to log request or service requests for searching articles or information in the knowledge base
The work of the service automation

Various kinds of works are performed in an organization by using the service automation. Go through the article to know about them:
  • Understanding the customers - Service automation technology can help companies to get information volumes like purchase history of the customer, customer needs, dropped calls, performance levels of the staffs on interactions with the customers. Therefore it helps in the identification of the priority customers and their requirements.
  • Automate resources - Managing support and customer service become a heavy task when the businesses grow. In this time a company can create, queue, route, track and response by using service automation technology and can increase the level of productivity enormously.
Benefits of using service automation:
  • This technology allows the users to save cost and implement rapidly irrespective of the unique complexities and service processes.
  •  This technology helps to improve the process of communication between a business and its customers
  • It permits the users to determine the customer investigations in a repeatable and personalized manner to accelerate incident resolution by satisfying the customers.
  • It allows full support to its external and internal users to find better solutions and information
  • Remote service automation reduces the operational and communication costs of the organizations
  • The service automation technology also provides a complete view to the customer service groups of organizations on every customer interactions to offer proactive support and anticipated service.
  • This service also reduces the helpdesk load by minimizing the service and sales costs
So, no more waiting! Start using service automation technology to increase the consumer value while dropping the business cost.

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