{"id":698,"date":"2010-11-17T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T13:49:53","slug":"customer-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/faq\/customer-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2010\/09\/28\/2010-faculty-questionnaire-results\/\" target=\"_blank\"> recent survey<\/a> had many comments regarding customer service provided  through the <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/helpdesk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technology Support Center (TSC)<\/a>. \u00a0The TSC receives a high  volume of calls (well over 1,000 calls each month) from faculty, staff  and students, and it\u2019s an area that <a href=\"http:\/\/matrix.scranton.edu\/pir\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">IR<\/a> is constantly reviewing. \u00a0They\u2019ve  really been working lately on making the TSC more efficient and user  friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The  first step in this process was the implementation of a new problem  ticketing software application called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.numarasoftware.com\/footprints\/service_desk_software.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFootprints,\u201d<\/a> which allows the TSC  staff to log calls in an effective and efficient manner. \u00a0Many incoming  calls are resolved by the \u201cfirst level support\u201d provided by the TSC  staff members themselves, who can answer a pretty wide variety of  questions on everything from email to calendaring to voice services &#8211;  and they\u2019re continually being trained on new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes,  though, calls regarding more complicated questions have to be  \u201cescalated\u201d to other IR work groups (sometimes &#8211; as in, over 10,000  times in the past year). Footprints coordinates this \u201cescalation\u201d to  second tier support staff and automatically notifies division management  if a problem ticket has not been \u201cpicked up\u201d within a specific amount  of time.<\/p>\n<p>Footprints  also provides immediate feedback to the end user, emailing them with a  summary of the problem. \u00a0Even better, <strong>in the next few months, all faculty and staff will have access to the end user interface for Footprints  &#8212; which means we\u2019ll be able to 1) search a knowledge base for existing  solutions, 2) log our own problems, and 3) check the status of past  problems we\u2019ve logged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This  new Footprints interface is part of IR\u2019s effort to provide users with  the ability to resolve their own issues. \u00a0Similarly, they\u2019re also  developing more self-service applications, like the password reset  process.<\/p>\n<p>If you have additional concerns about TSC customer service, please <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">let us know<\/a> so we can share them with IR.<\/p>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2010\/11\/17\/response-to-survey-comments-top-faculty-concerns\/\" target=\"_self\">Top Faculty Concerns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent survey had many comments regarding customer service provided through the Technology Support Center (TSC). \u00a0The TSC receives a high volume of calls (well over 1,000 calls each month) from faculty, staff and students, and it\u2019s an area that IR is constantly reviewing. \u00a0They\u2019ve really been working lately on making the TSC more efficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-698","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}