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Change Management: How To Migrate Tools With Losing Escalation Context

A migration is a difficult, expensive process, especially when escalating tickets across systems. Here’s how to prevent potential issues.

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How To Design SLA-Aware Escalation Workflows That Actually Work

Your SLAs are tracking well but your customers are more frustrated than ever. The reason? Your reports aren’t capturing what’s really happening. Here’s why.

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Unito’s Guide to Getting Your Ticket Escalation Workflow Right

Ticket escalation ensures that ever issue is handled by the right person. But getting this process right can be challenging. Here’s how it’s done.

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How to Build a Support Ticket Workflow (With Templates and Examples)

Your support ticket workflow is the reference point for what needs to happen to every ticket, in every situation. Here’s how to build yours.

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Customer Support vs. Customer Service: Why the Distinction Matters in Ticket Escalation

Ticket escalation can be fraught with lost context and other issues. That’s why understanding

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Reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) by Fixing the Human Bottlenecks

Your mean time to resolution can be hampered by bottlenecks that only the right technology can really fix. Here’s how.

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Make Customer Service AI Agents Smarter With Unified Cross-Tool Context

AI agents for customer service need context from multiple tools to work just right. Here’s how that’s done.

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How to Standardize IT Tickets for Better Escalation

Standardizing AI tickets can create a mountain of administrative work, especially when context is scattered across multiple tools. Here’s what you can do.

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12 Ticket Escalation Metrics Every IT Leader Should Track

Ticket escalation metrics IT leaders should track include time to escalate, context loss, bounceback rates, and more. Find them all in this guide.

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What Is the Support Ticket Escalation Workflow?

Even the most dedicated customer support agents sometimes need help from other teams. Whether they need engineering to jump onto a new bug or the billing team to handle a billing issue, some tickets need escalation. That’s where this workflow comes in.

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The 6 Best Zendesk Alternatives

Zendesk not helping you feel Zen? Here are some of the best Zendesk alternatives on the market, from HubSpot to Zoho Desk and Help Scout.