1. KronoDesk® - Product Information
Help Desk Ticketing, Online Knowledge Base and Support Forums in One Package

2. After viewing this presentation you will:
Objectives
After viewing this presentation you will:
Understand the challenges involved in providing high quality customer support
Have a strong grasp on the features provided by KronoDesk
Have learned about the benefits of using KronoDesk to manage your customer support

3. Agenda Customer Support Overview KronoDesk® Overview
Feature Walkthrough
Dashboards
Help Desk Ticketing
Customer Support Forums
Online Knowledge Base
Reporting
Mobile Interface
Integration with SpiraTest / SpiraTeam

4. Customer Support Challenges
When customers have questions or issues with a product or system they need customer support.
Customers ideally would like to find the answer to the problem quickly and easily without having to invest significant time in solving the issue
Companies want to provide the highest possible level of support in a manner that provides a high degree of satisfaction whilst being cost-effective at the same time
Traditional help-desk tools focus on providing support for individual customers, but don’t address the fact that many customer issues are not unique and have been solved before.

5. KronoDesk® Overview

6. Product Overview
KronoDesk® is an integrated customer support system that includes help desk ticketing, customer support forums and an online knowledge base in a single user interface.
When customers arrive with a problem, question or enquiry, KronoDesk® will direct them to relevant knowledge base articles, suggest helpful discussion threads and provide self-service solutions so that they can find a wide range of immediate solutions and suggestions.
For those enquiries that do not match an existing article or have not yet been discussed in a support forum, KronoDesk® will direct the customer to log a help desk ticket. The system provides an easy-to- use help desk submission form that gathers the appropriate information to ensure a speedy resolution of the problem.

7. Why Choose KronoDesk?
The top three reasons that our customers choose KronoDesk over other solutions are:
Configurable Help Desk with Forums & Knowledge Base KronoDesk includes a help desk ticketing system together with fully integrated customer forums and online knowledge base. The complete support package in one.
Personalized dashboards of key information KronoDesk provides customized dashboards for both your customers and support agents that reduce information overload and enhance efficiency.
Available Hosted or On-Premise KronoDesk is available as both a both a secure, hosted SaaS service or as an on-premise product that is installed in your own environment.In addition, we provide superb technical support that ensures that questions are dealt with in a timely and professional manner.

8. Feature Snapshot
Listed below are some of the many great features that makes KronoDesk customer support software the leading choice for companies and organizations worldwide:
Easy to use web-based help desk ticket submission
Automated notifications when tickets updated
Track ticket change history and comments
Customizable fields, status, priorities and workflows
Built-in screenshot capture tool
Upload articles and FAQs for common problems
Organize KB articles into multiple categories
Setup user support forums so your customers can help each other
Central dashboard so that agents can monitor forum posts and tickets
Organize forums/threads into multiple categories
Subscribe to forums/threads by or RSS
Knowledge base can be sorted and searched by keyword and category

9. Feature Walkthrough

10. Customer Home Page
The customer dashboard provides a single view for your customers to see new knowledge base articles, recent forum posts and all their open tickets.

11. Support Agent Home Page
The customizable agent dashboard, allows your support agents to view all their assigned tickets, monitor incoming forum posts and check for new tickets all from the same screen.

12. Support for Mobile Devices
KronoDesk provides a mobile web interface that allows customers using smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to view their dashboard. They can then view their existing open tickets, search the knowledge base, and submit new help desk tickets.

13. Help Desk Ticketing - Entering
KronoDesk makes it easy for your customers to submit help desk tickets, attaching files and screenshots, making it easy for your support agents to reproduce issues and provide help.

14. Help Desk Ticketing – Searching/Filtering
Your support agents can use the powerful sorting, searching and filtering features to track and manage their assigned tickets.

15. Help Desk Ticketing - Responding
The ticket editing screen lets your customer agents quickly and easily respond to custom help desk tickets.
The system allows them to add notes, view the change history, attach documents and update the fields based on the workflow.

16. Help Desk Ticketing – Contact History
The ticket details page lets you see all of the interactions between your support personnel and the customer
The change history lets you see the actions and escalations that have been performed on the help desk ticket

17. Support Forums - Categories
The customer support forums allow you to create different support forum categories for different products and customer needs.
The system remembers which forums you have read and highlights any that have new threads or messages.

18. Support Forums - Forums
The system displays the list of threads in each forum together with the number of replies and views.
The system remembers which threads you have read and highlights any that have new messages.

19. Support Forums - Threads
The thread details page displays the original message together with a threaded list of customer and support agent replies.
Users can subscribe to the thread/forum as an RSS feed

20. Knowledge Base – Categories & Tags
The knowledge base allows you to categorize support articles into categories based on the different products and types of article.
The tag cloud lets your customers quickly find articles related to specific topics.

21. Knowledge Base – Searching/Filtering
The knowledge base is searchable by category, keyword and meta-tag, and includes the ability to find related articles and view the most popular and recent topics.

22. Knowledge Base – Creating & Editing
The knowledge base article screen displays the text of the article, together with the list of associated tags.
Clicking on the tags will display any other articles that share the same meta-tag, allowing customers to quickly find related information.

23. Notifications
KronoDesk contains a powerful templating system so that outbound messages can be formatted to fit your organization.
When users subscribe to threads, forums or articles, the system sends out automatic notifications

24. Integration
KronoDesk can connect to your system and automatically convert s from customers into new help desk tickets.
The system is intelligent enough to determine which s are replies to existing tickets and will automatically add the s as new comments onto the existing help desk ticket.

25. Subscribe to Threads/Articles
Users can subscribe to specific articles, threads and forums
When changes are made to an article, new threads are posted in a forum or new replies are added to a thread, the user will be notified

26. Customizable Reporting Dashboard
KronoDesk allows you to build a customized reporting dashboard featuring your frequently-used graphs, charts and reports. The data behind the graphs can be displayed and exported to a CSV/Excel file.

27. SpiraTeam® Integration
When used with SpiraTeam® you can integrate your customer support into your software development lifecycle.
Each KronoDesk™ ticket can generate new incidents in SpiraTeam so that customer requests can be seamlessly added to the project.

28. Configuration & Customization
KronoDesk is completely configurable, so that you can tailor the system to match your customer support process.
The system lets you setup custom fields, priorities, statuses, types, resolutions and workflows so that you can tailor the product to fit your process and business.

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30. Legal Notices
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