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***tier3square.shtml***Help Desk software is often a standalone tool to enable an IT organization or software company to support their end-users more effectively. This is usually adequate for an internal support team, such as PC support groups, etc. Where this becomes a problem is for teams that are supporting external customers. One of the key goals of CRM is to enable all customer facing parts of a business to function, seemingly, as one. It's not possible to do this when customer data is maintained in numerous customer databases (sales, support, marketing). When this happens, there is no way to easily share data. For instance, a sales rep may find it extremely beneficial to know that a customer he's about to visit for an add-on sale opportunity has serious unresolved support issues with the existing products they've purchased. Now, this is a typical bullet point you see for CRM software. Finding out the day you do your meeting preparation isn't really much better than not knowing at all. If the information is there all along, in an integrated database, the sales organization should really know about these issues long before they plan their next sales visit. Of course, that requires pre-planning as to how this information will be aggregated and communicated to the various groups that will find it revealing. The software isn't going to make you aware of everthing just because you installed it. CRM software packages generally have some sort of customer service, or help desk software, component built into them. But I think you'll find that you'll only see minor improvements if you don't plan your strategy (including change management within your human resources) properly. Extra steps will need to be incorporated into the day in the life, and it's important that your user community understand how it benefits them, your customer and your enterprise. Quite possibly in that order! ****bottom-ad-collapse.shtml*** Return to CRM Tools from Help Desk Software ***SOCIALIZEIT*** ***bottom-search.shtml*** |
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