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Sales Engineering - The Key to Customer Service

Sales engineering is becoming increasingly more important for service-based businesses. It’s time to start paying attention to the role of technical sales in your business. The truth is, without technical sales, you cannot sell. If you want to deliver solutions that meet your target market’s needs, you must bridge the gap between internal teams and customers.

How a chatbot taught us never to settle for complex technology

Picture the scene – you’re a mobile mechanic helping a customer and you can’t log into your tablet. You’re on the side of the road at 11pm, and you just want to reset your password so you can finish up and send them home in the car you just fixed. The service desk is closed, so you go for the chatbot option.

4 Reasons Why Sales Engineering Resources are Essential for Growth?

Sales engineers play a significant role in bridging the gap between internal teams and customers. This shared services team has product experts who possess a sound technical background and a deep understanding of customer expectations. With that, they support several business functions like Sales, Customer Service, Research and Development, and so on. Sales engineering professionals can wear many hats because of their in-depth understanding of the products and the business itself.

ITSM For All: Bringing Human Resources into the Service Desk

For those who have been keeping up with our series on IT Service Management (ITSM) beyond IT, welcome back! If you’re new to this conversation, it isn’t like a podcast where I’ll send you back to part one, but you may find it helpful to visit the previous recommendations for other internal service providers. Reflecting on 2020, we saw how powerful collaboration in the service desk could be in maintaining users’ productivity and achieving broader business goals.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff but Consider This with Sweating IT Assets

Sweating IT assets, ever heard of them? It might seem nonsensical to imagine an IT asset perspiring from being overworked, but it’s actually not a far-off analogy. When a business delays the purchasing of new technology as long as possible, it’s called ‘sweating assets.” Companies have their reasons for this strategy, but it usually comes down to one thing: an attempt at cost-savings. Do sweating assets actually help to achieve this and where do they miss the mark?

Do You Work In A Shared Services Team? Here's How You Make Work Easier

Shared services teams are often challenged with supporting many individuals within a company. Less resources, e-mail, shared inboxes, and disconnected systems are all issues these teams face. How can this be solved to make work more efficient, save time, and save money? StartingPoint is a simple SaaS customer operations and experience platform that helps organizations manage on-boarding, project management, service and helpdesk support, and task and team management in one unified solution. StartingPoint can be deployed and customized within one hour and no actions take more than 5 clicks.

Ivanti Insights Episode 3: In the World of Privacy, Nothing is Free - Including Social Media Apps

Did you know there are currently 4.20B social media users globally? That’s 53% of the total global population! From the most popular social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, to the hottest up and coming platforms like TikTok and Clubhouse, there is one thing they all have in common: privacy regulations and considerations should be and need to be top priority. Ivanti’s Sr.