Phone system for IT teams
Solve your employees’ needs and problems even from across the globe with an integrated phone system for your IT service desk.
Any business that relies on computers or any tech tool eventually faces maintenance cramps and unforeseen computer blank outs over time. And the immediate reflex to such incidents is frantically calling up the IT service desk of your company. The Freshservice-Freshcaller integration helps you tackle such situations better with the virtue of a clear and detailed phone call.
As your business scales, there will always be a certain challenge that you’ll need to solve. And creating a work environment where your employees feel heard and have confidence in your IT team for any issue they face matters a lot in the long run. With the Freshcaller-Freshservice integration, you can make sure that you manage your internal support requests better, and provide your IT team, a system to improve the whole experience of IT support within your organization.
When your service desk is all about supporting employees’ requests, solving an unexpected techcrunch and ensuring that their systems are up and running 24/7, your IT team needs to be available to every employee all through the day. With business hours-based routing and call queues, you can ensure all-day support. Also, with a phone channel in place, your IT agents can understand the context of the request, the priority of the issue and the magnitude of the problem from the tone and urgency of caller within the first few seconds of a call. This way an employee can access your IT team with any time-sensitive issue, get it sorted then and there and use the ticketing system for the ones that can wait a day or two.
Even if your business expands to multiple locations and you still have a centrally located IT team, your team should still be able to deliver consistent support to all. You should be no less accessible to an employee who is miles away and does not have the option of walking to your desk, as compared to someone in the same office. With an integrated phone system in place along with Freshservice, an overseas employee can reach out to you over a phone call as much as a local employee. Also, since every call gets automatically logged with the tickets related to a specific employee, your IT team can look at every employees’ problem history and other details from a single system and immediately relate to it when an employee calls.
A huge challenge for IT teams that are based out of multiple locations is accessibility and a channel to communicate instantly with your fellow IT teams from other branches. With an integration in place, you can customize your phone system to smartly escalate calls to the right department, set an IVR menu to reduce handle time and help your agents attend the right calls. Even after all this, if an employee needs to be directed to another support agent or department, you can transfer your calls manually as well. An added advantage of this integration is that you’re not just equipped to transfer calls with Freshcaller, but also the context of the calls by being able to transfer call notes too.
An employee calls your IT service desk when they are in dire need of a quick solution. But given the nature of a support job, the possibility of being tied up with a huge volume of tickets makes it impossible to pick every call that comes their way. Also, they could easily miss out on these calls and voicemails amongst the huge pile of tickets. With Freshcaller, all these voicemails and missed calls are automatically converted into tickets so that your IT team can attend to them as soon as they have enough bandwidth. This way, they not only get to do their job well, and never miss out on calls anymore, but also come by as a reliable and responsible support team amongst the callers.
One of the most irresponsible falters from an IT team’s end is not following up on a call as promised. For an employee, a lot of work and productivity would be at stake if the issue is not rectified as promised. The best way to make sure that your agents don’t accidentally miss out on follow-ups, is to convert your calls to tickets or add them to an existing ticket. All this is possible from within the Freshcaller widget inside your Freshservice account. This way every employee’s issue is accounted for and builds your credibility amongst the employees.
Annoying downtimes and badly timed software blackouts aren’t new to a business. And this situation turns out to be a dreaded nightmare for the IT support team with too many calls coming in from every direction and from every other employee in the company. Instead of having to individually answer every call and explain the same scenario to your employees, setting up a pre-recorded message over an IVR can be a time-saving work around in such scenarios. With an integration in play, you can easily set-up an IVR menu where the welcome message is a common announcement of the down time and an ETA of when they can expect things to get back to normal.
Almost every growing business comes to a point where two paths diverge— what to opt for? Wait for an in-house integration or manage with a third party integration. While both have their own points of difference, weighing all their pros and cons gave us some insights.
Being an entirely external environment, a third-party app would have no context of what data is important and useful to you. This might leave you siloed and clueless when trying to make sense of the way your data is processed by them. This tends to create an information gap between the two systems.
A third party software tends to demand a pretty heavy price for every additional IT agent using the integration. This recurring cost in terms of implementation is a huge bottleneck as your business expands and team grows.
The data in this case resides between entirely different business systems and requires you to go through a series of regulations and security protocols before you get to access your data. This tends to tie down your control, thus delaying your data dependent plans and operations.
Since you’re new to associate with a third party brand, there is a certain risk of being victim to their shoddy support. This could affect you big in aspects of long downtimes when there is no one to respond to your queries.
“We previously handled phone calls by sharing one phone and it wasn’t scalable for a growing team. Now, my team members can answer calls with just a click from their laptops. Each call is linked to a call recording and call notes so that pertinent context is readily available for all support specialists.”
“Freshcaller has made our organization more efficient thanks to features like Call transfer, IVR and call queues. The ability to access the system from anywhere has allowed us to perform better. Tasks that normally get done the next day are now dealt with swiftly, thereby minimising any possible delay. Call recording feature has been excellent for our quality training as we now know clearly in which areas we have to focus”
“It is a simple to configure cloud PBX system. I found it easy to buy numbers from different countries and set up my business call center in minutes. There are call monitoring options for supervisors during call and we make it a point to listen to all the call recordings together to improve our communication. Call center is not technical anymore.”