Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

February 2022

Streamlining customer service to eliminate wasted time on hold

Collective sighs from being left on hold to customer service are reverberating around the world—especially in Australia. Research from ServiceNow revealed Australians wasted 89.5 million hours on hold trying to resolve complaints in the past 18 months. That’s an average of seven hours per person.

Can artificial intelligence really improve customer experience?

“Try turning it off and on again.” This advice normally works for my mom, but not for me. When I needed to present at an event last year, I got frustrated when I couldn’t connect to the network. The front desk at the venue referred me to technical services. “Uh-oh,” I thought. “Here we go.” But I was wrong. The technical services person quickly assessed my level of know-how and adjusted her talk track to cater to my needs.

How to get all your customer service channels 'smiling'

One of the first things a voice-over acting coach tells their class is that people can hear your face. Studies back that up, even pointing out that we all have “smile sense”—being able to tell if a speaker on the phone or radio is happy. The same applies to customer service. Customers can tell if the agents they speak with are happy.

Q&A: Transforming customer support to elevate the customer experience

No matter where they are on their digital transformation journey, customers want simple, frictionless access to expertise and resources. ServiceNow Impact™, a new service solution for Now Platform® value acceleration, is designed to provide exactly that. ServiceNow Impact affects all aspects of how we work with our customers to accelerate results and develop their expertise.

Addressing Australia's customer service generation gap

All age groups demand speed, transparency, and a personalized approach when it comes to resolving customer issues. But new research from ServiceNow reveals a stark gap between how Australia’s oldest and youngest populations want issues addressed. Tech-savvy millennials want to communicate through chatbots, email, and direct messages. Baby boomers prefer to speak to an operator to resolve a problem. Other generations lie somewhere in between.

Technology excellence: The key to business transformation

Transformation. Everyone’s tossing that word around these days to the point it almost seems meaningless. Yet, it’s not. According to the 2021 EY CEO Imperative Study, nearly two-thirds of CEOs believe technology and digital transformation will have the greatest impact on the future success of their enterprises. In fact, 68% of these CEOs plan to make big-time technology investments throughout 2022.

3 ways automation can improve ITSM and customer service

IT service management (ITSM)—the management and support of IT services—is vital for good customer service. It encompasses problem management, incident management, change and release management, and service-level management. Because it’s an integral part of customer service, it’s important to keep it optimized and streamlined. Here are three ways automation can help with those efforts.

How operating excellence is redefining enterprise success

For years, enterprises have defined success by higher earnings, bigger market share, or the launch of a new product or service. Lately, however, success has been redefined to encompass much more. For example, organizations are also being evaluated on the success of their operations. Executive leaders are under pressure to: Operations have always been the lifeblood of the business.

Banking platform maker overhauls global IT support, reaps rewards

If you’re a banking customer, chances are you’ve used a product created by Intellect Design Arena. The Chennai-based fintech company supports more than 10 million transactions a day across 91 countries, with cloud-native solutions for core banking, transaction, risk, treasury, and insurance. Intellect has doubled its customer base nearly every year.

Fortune: ServiceNow is a World's Most Admired Company

We’re pleased to announce that ServiceNow has been named on the Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies list for the third year in a row, ranking No. 5 in the Computer Software category. The list recognizes the top-rated large US companies according to executives and directors from the companies, as well as external analysts.

Why we adopted Microsoft Teams-and what others can learn from it

Collaboration apps, such as Microsoft Teams, have become critical during the pandemic because they enable employees to stay connected and engaged while they work. Just how critical? Microsoft reported 270 million Teams users in January 2022, up from 75 million in April 2020, a few weeks into the pandemic, according to ZDNet. Teams and similar apps have proven essential to the remote workplace. ServiceNow is one of the companies benefiting from Teams adoption.