Customer Service Solutions from Salesforce.com

As customer preferences become more sophisticated, so too must customer service solutions. Customers have a more powerful voice that ever before. Blogs, Web 2.0 applications, and online communities mean that every voice can now be heard. We are all more connected than ever. But that all means it’s now easy to ruin a company’s brand with a single posting on a popular website. Your customer service must be innovative to meet today’s customers’ demanding expectations.

Markets and customer needs change quickly, and traditional customer service solutions like call centre management and online knowledge bases take so long to put in place that they are usually out of date before they have even been implemented. To make matters worse, these solutions are very difficult to customise once the long implementation cycle has started. As a result, after spending millions on a customer service solution, a lot of businesses end up with a something that simply does not reflect the dynamic nature of their organisation. That&rsquot;s why many companies of all sizes and in all sectors are switching to cloud-computing based customer service solutions.

Similarly, a huge number of service cases are being handled in the cloud, as customers show a preference for online solutions from self-service portals and social communities. Your customer service solutions need to combine the traditional call centre with more cloud-based support channels if you want to keep up.

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Call Centre Management in the Cloud

Salesforce.com’s customer service solutions, which include call centre, customer portal and knowledge base software-as-a-service applications, help turn customers into evangelists. We give you the tools you need to amaze your clients with superior support when they need it.

Built on the Force.com platform and running in the cloud, salesforce.com customer service solutions can be set up in a fraction of the time needed by traditional call centre management systems. There’s also no need for the huge expense of buying and maintaining software and hardware. These advantages, along with state-of-the-art capabilities, mean our customer service solutions improve agent productivity and allow you to concentrate on delivering top-rate support.

Knowledge Base Software as a Service from Salesforce.com

Customers want the right answer to their problems right now, but traditional customer service solutions slow them down as they search through reams of material trying to find an entry that is relevant to them. Salesforce.com’s customer service solutions use a unique technology to quickly and accurately pinpoint the solution each customer needs, across all support channels.

And your agents and call centre management personnel can achieve this success sooner than you think: top companies like Comcast, Egencia (an Expedia, Inc. Company) and Orange have deployed Salesforce CRM knowledge base software as a service to tens of thousands of agents in weeks.

The Fastest Time to Value in Call Center Management

When your service team is busy providing solutions to your clients, who has time to deal with technology issues? There’s not software or hardware to install or manage with customer service solutions from salesforce.com, so your company can concentrate on efficient and effective customer service, not on fixing old, inflexible systems.

Customer Service Solutions that Deliver Results When You Need Them

Because our customer service solutions are running in the cloud, you don’t have to worry about painful hardware and software deployments. When new versions of our call centre management, customer portal or knowledge base software as a service applications appear, you are automatically upgraded. So you are always sure you are getting the best performance, reliability, security, and transparency.

  • Customise in Hours, not Months. We know that every company works differently, so we’ve made out our customer service solutions easily customisable to work the way you do. Most customisations of salesforce.com knowledge base software as a service and call centre management can be achieved using point-and-click tools that require no programming. For more complex adaptations, we have toolkits for all major development languages. And your customisations are kept even after an upgrade of the Salesforce CRM system, unlike traditional customer service solutions.

Extend Your Capabilities with Force.com AppExchange Customer Service Solutions

For hundreds of cloud computing business applications, all pre-integrated with Salesforce CRM, look no further than the Force.com AppExchange. You will get access to more than 60 customer service solutions, including Field Service, Agent Productivity, Community, Chat/Email, eLearning, Asset Management and CTI.

Call Centre Management that Empowers Your Agents

Salesforce.com customer service solutions transform your customer service agents into brand champions who routinely exceed customer expectations. These heroes delight your customers with their service, and quickly elevate your reputation to elite status.

  • The Dream Agent Desktop: The Ultimate Customer Service Solution. Give your customer service agents the information they need at their fingertips. Salsforce.com’s customer service solution provides case management tools, a single-click user interface and knowledge base software as a service. And with a soft-phone that works with more than 80 telephony platforms, call scripting, click-to-dial, screen-pops, and call logs they can respond more quickly than ever.
  • Call Centre Management Simplified: A Unified Customer View. Some customer service solutions store various parts of your clients’ data across multiple databases. Salesforce CRM call centre management stores all your important information in a single database, meaning you can quickly get a full 360-degree view and history of each customer across all departments. Salesforce CRM customer service solutions integrate smoothly with other applications or systems, for streamlined access to data across your organisation. No other customer service solution makes it so simple to maintain service-level agreements, and put the information you need to cross-sell additional products and services within easy reach.
  • Knowledge Base Analytics. Salesforce.com’s customer service solution comes with a powerful analytics engine that allows agents to track usage, and easily identify missing content and resolution resources.

Customer Service Solutions with the Future Built In

Customer self-service is becoming more and more common in our connected world. Most customers prefer to deal with businesses on their own terms and timelines. So we have equipped the Salesforce CRM customer portal solution with the same knowledge base algorithms that your agents use to identify the most relevant solution fast, allowing customers to just as quickly find the right answer. Everybody wins: customers gain a satisfying, personalised solution to their query, and the option to contribute feedback and ideas. And for you, support costs and workloads are eased. Both call centre management and individual agents have more time to focus on trickier cases and high-value customer service solutions.

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Equip every agent to perform like your best agent

  • Keep productivity up and clicks down
  • Get new agents moving with easy-to-use apps
  • Route cases to the right agent
  • Escalate challenges for fast response
What does this mean for your customers?

  • Less time on the phone
  • A better service experience
  • Higher first-contact resolution
Create a self-service community

  • Create a tailored self-service experience
  • Customize and brand your site with ease
  • Deliver high-quality help and training at a lower cost
  • Build and nurture your customer Web community
What does this mean for your customers?

  • A more personalized service experience
  • More customer choice and faster responses
  • A place to go for sharing ideas, help, and feedback with you and other customers
Join social conversations in the cloud

  • Connect with your customers on Facebook
  • Tap into Twitter
  • Share knowledge through Google
What does this mean for your business?

  • Access to real customer insight
  • Increased customer loyalty
  • A new source of product and service knowledge
Find just the right answers

  • Harness knowledge across every channel
  • Deliver only what’s relevant
  • Track usage, spot knowledge gaps, and identify trends
  • Easily keep answers up-to-date
What does this mean for your customers?

  • Higher first-contact resolution
  • Faster, more accurate service
  • No wasting time on irrelevant answers
Achieve complete visibility

  • Get a 360-degree view of every customer
  • Get control over the metrics that matter
  • Keep tabs on agent performance
  • Stand by your SLAs
  • Easily create your own reports and dashboards
What does this mean for your business?

  • Insight into your true service performance
  • Clear direction for improving customer satisfaction
  • No waiting on developers to pull together customized analytics
Get going quickly

  • Go live in weeks, not months or years
  • Deploy with just a computer and Internet connection
  • Instantly set up new agents anywhere in the world
What does this mean for your business?

  • Time-to-value is almost immediate
  • Less risk and shorter payback
  • An ideal agent deployment mix: in-house, outsourced, or work at home
Customize with ease

  • Make changes on the fly
  • Integrate with anything
  • Easily support new products and services
  • Never worry about upgrade hassles
  • Add functionality with a complete application ecosystem Products
What does this mean for your business?

  • No bottlenecks to business innovation
  • Continue to leverage your existing investments
  • Maintaining your focus on your service, not on hardware or software
  • Change management won’t impact service quality

Your customers are talking online. The Service Cloud lets you join in.

Today, keeping customers satisfied means connecting with them everywhere they turn for service, whether that’s the phone, email, or—increasingly— the Internet. The Service Cloud connects you to it all: your call center, your Web self-service community, even social networks like Facebook and Twitter. All on a single, cloud-computing platform.

The choice of leading customer service teams worldwide

Thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of support employees around the globe delight their customers every day in the Service Cloud. Follow their example: Bypass outdated and inflexible software and choose the leading Web-based, cloud-computing solution on the planet.

Renowned for ease of use

For simplicity, no other customer service solution comes close. Just ask any agent who uses Salesforce CRM Service. Its unmatched ease of use means less training, consistently faster resolutions, and happier customers.

Up and running in no time, and ready to evolve as you do

Forget about on-premise support software and the months or years it takes to deploy. With the Service Cloud, there’s no waiting and no implementation headaches—for you, your agents, or your customers. And better yet, you can customize it on the fly as your business changes.

Exceed expectations while keeping costs and risks down

The Service Cloud isn't possible with yesterday's technology: There’s too much cost, too much complexity. But with salesforce.com’s native cloud-computing power, you can get the Service Cloud with less risk and faster time to value.

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