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The App Support Team at BENlabs is primarily responsible for software administration tasks, but it also serves as a general IT help desk and provides software support. Led by Western Nelson and Sue Ann, this five-member team diligently works to support and resolve any IT-related issues, from a simple password reset to bug fixing requests, along with software administrative tasks for internal teams within the company.
When Western took charge of the team, he noticed a pattern where the employees were slowly shifting to Slack as their primary channel of communication instead of sending an email or raising a Jira ticket for IT-related issues. The reason behind this shift pointed to quicker response time and faster resolution as the driving factor.
In the meantime - the Helpdesk team was keeping track of their daily work on Jira, requiring them to copy and paste their status updates from Slack to Jira. This resulted in too much manual effort. There were also no metrics around the work being done in Slack. The overall challenges could be summarized as:
It was difficult to keep track requests that were coming in via Slack channels
There was no clarity on who is working on a specific request reported on Slack, the request status or how many requests were being resolved on a particular day.
It was difficult to measure team and individual productivity as time spent on Slack was never accounted for.
A major part of the day was spent scrubbing the channel, isolating and categorizing requests from conversations, and filing them as tickets in Jira.
ClearFeed's software monitors request channels on Slack and identifies new or followup employee requests with the help of AI. Agents can then assign, reply and resolve such requests. Deploying the ClearFeed app on their Slack channels allowed BENlabs to:
Respond in a timely manner to all user requests: Delayed responses on any new or followup user requests are detected by ClearFeed's software and notified to the App Support team.
Track ownership and status of all user requests: IT team members could take ownership of and resolve requests using Emojis in Slack. ClearFeed's dashboards allows the team to easily find out unresolved or unassigned requests and take care of them.
Convert Slack threads to Jiras easily: With ClearFeed's Jira Service Management (JSM) integration, the App Support team could create easily tickets - using a ticket emoji - for any requests that could not be resolved in Slack. The bi-directional sync offered the team an effortless way of keep Slack and tickets in sync and provide visibility to the users on the progress of the tickets.
Get access to Service Metrics on Slack: ClearFeed reports key service metrics like request load, response times, time to closure and first touch resolution percentage. These metrics are critical for year-end reviews, tracking the use and allocation of resources, and understanding individual contributions. The team manager is now able to have a clear picture of the hours spent by the App Support Team on Slack and the time taken to resolve requests both individually and collectively.
As Sue Ann said: "More metrics, more info is always appreciated"
"More metrics, more info is always appreciated"
In short, ClearFeed’s integration had a noticeable impact on the App Support Team's operational efficiency. Here is a quick summary of BENlabs before and after the ClearFeed integration.
What is on BENlabs wishlist ?
An automated customer satisfaction survey was at the top of the request pile from BENlabs. This feature would help them analyze their internal customer satisfaction scores after closing a request on Slack. Well, this is something many other customers are also asking for - and we are working on it right now!
