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The technology is out there - is it practical in the call center to be able to use your hand held device for working tickets? If so, in what capacity? If you were able to get a list of your assigned ticket some basic information about them (caller, location, description, phone for example), is it enough to be able to update work history and change the status? Or would it be critical to do more advanced features?

Also, what kind of devices are in use in your environment?

Only published comments... Sep 19 2007, 10:03 AM by Lisa Kienle

Comments

 

austin.freeze said:

We have Blackberry's at our company and are extremely interested in this sort of thing. We have about 30 people using the Blackberry's and it would be nice to have a app that would integrate well with C.Support.

September 21, 2007 12:11 PM
 

austin.freeze said:

If C.Support had a pilot or test group I DEFINITELY would like to be part of it. We are a Lotus Notes shop.

September 21, 2007 12:14 PM
 

Shealene "Shay" Shafer said:

We have played with the idea of getting something like Blackberry's or Treo's for just this reason. I could see our group using a handheld feature quite a bit. Our shop has help desk staff that double out in the clinics as desktop support staff. Info on the fly would be great.

September 21, 2007 12:18 PM
 

Jay said:

We are also a Lotus Notes shop with many Blackberry devices.  We would like to be able to create and edit tickets in C.support on the devices.  I would love to be a test pilot on that.

September 21, 2007 12:18 PM
 

Michael Reed said:

As one who fills both Help Desk and Field Support roles, being able to communicate with our personnel while offsite is crucial.  Voice communication via cell phones is great, but in some locations, the signal is not strong enough to maintain a connection.  But cellular transmission of data (vmail and msg alerts) often get through because they only need a momentary connection to "burst" through.

And there is not always a PC/laptop available to check workorders.

So, handheld devices can have a significant impact on how we meet the needs of our customers.  Even to get the customer name, location, phone number and brief description of their "issue" would boost our abilitiy to deliver excellent customer service.

Even if workorder closure doesn't take place until later, we're still that much further ahead.

September 21, 2007 12:38 PM
 

Ashanti B said:

Blackberries have become a necessity with our traveling\off-site c.Support users. Such and app would be extremely useful to update and close tickets.

September 21, 2007 12:42 PM
 

Robert said:

We use c.Support in support a website where our support is mostly handled via phone calls, emails, and customer chats.  A hand-held device wouldn't fit in in for most of our support reps, except potentially for a support rep to handle tickets remotely.  I could see where it would be helpful for someone the lead position could keep watch on our ticket queue and address some issues while away from the desk.

September 21, 2007 1:32 PM
 

rstaples said:

As a c.Support partner we are regularly asked about support for mobile devices.  For our Blackberry customers we have created a browser based view and form to allow support reps to view their tickets via c.Support for Domino.  This is sufficient for some but we would like to see a two-way interactive sync occur.

September 21, 2007 1:57 PM
 

jplawler said:

Just had a request from a client who has asked for the ability to use the Blackberry for his staff who provide customer complaint surgeries in a range of different locations and need to look at previous incidents and update existing ones

September 21, 2007 1:58 PM
 

Mikeratcliffe said:

A c.Support app for Windows Mobile devices would be a great help to myself and my staff.  

September 25, 2007 9:48 AM
 

JNoe said:

We are using Windows Mobile Devices. We are also a Windows shop not Notes. Having the mobile device capability would be very advantagious.

September 25, 2007 10:45 AM
 

DLCurtis said:

We use a mix of blackberry and win mobile.  We are also a exchange shop.  This would help our turn around time on new tickets and help the desktop team keep there tickets more up to date without having to use the user's PC to do so.

I would like to see the ability to make new.  Along with updating and reviewing current tickets.

September 27, 2007 5:36 AM
 

Ana said:

We are a Lotus Notes shop and the majority of the Support teams have Blackberries.  I would LOVE to be able to route incidents, open, close from our Blackberries.

October 23, 2007 8:23 AM
 

Roland said:

For hardware I think Blackberry and Windows Mobile are the most important platforms I would imagine as that makes up the lion share of the smartphone market.  

The ability to the basics in the field via a smartphone/blackbery would immediately add value to cSupport.  Whether it was a custom formatteded virtual web /mobilerep or an app wouldn't matter as long as it worked easy.

As for advanced features I guess you;ll get feedback on that.  Only options my group would need is updating and reassigning.

October 23, 2007 9:13 AM
 

crazyburns said:

We use Exchange server and therfore prefer Windows Mobile for the handhelds, although there are several people in our department who have iPhones.

If .cSupport worked in browsers other than IE (ie. Firefox and Safari) then the iPhone would work fine without any sort of client.  Windows Mobile on the otherhand has a pretty bad web browser, so it would be better to have a dedicated app for this.  If at the very least you could see your assigned tickets along with status about the ticket.  And then give you the ability to close/route tickets.

October 25, 2007 9:23 AM
 

jtwigg said:

We also are a Microsoft shop we use exchange and Windows based PDAs and smart phones are our preference.  My staff is extremely interested in being able to update work orders from their hand held devcies.  IThe lack of this feature was the one point of contention in selecting cSupport over another vendors product.

August 19, 2008 10:59 AM
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