AnneSych

About Anne Sych

Anne Sych has served as the Marketing Manager at Novo Solutions since 2000.

Engaging Social Media as a Customer Support Tool

  Nothing compares to a strong, web-based, customer support tracking tool to streamline and manage customer support requests, but today more and more customers are taking their requests and complaints into social media.  Savvy customers know that organizations do not want negative comments on their facebook pages and can get fast resolution going that route, but did you know that social media can also be a great way to proactively manage your customer support?  From [...]

Novo Reach “reaches out” to help in the fight against Human Trafficking

Human trafficking continues to be a horrific problem in the world today.  It is estimated that there are over 27 million people in forced labor, and that seems to be a low estimate; these are the highest numbers in history. This Christmas Novo Reach, an outreach of Novo Solutions, is making a hearty donation to help start a 'Freedom House'  in Odessa, Ukraine.  This building will help house women and children who have been victims [...]

The importance of providing first-rate Customer Support!

  It’s a given, if you have customers you have support issues.  Whether you serve retail customers or other businesses, support issues occur and must be resolved.  Today, more than ever, providing first-rate customer service is necessary to earn and keep your customers. Some contributing factors to increased expectations are: We have become used to getting information quickly.  When we have to wait a few seconds can seem like an eternity. Many businesses are running [...]

Improving Customer Service with Knowledge Base Software

  It is a well known fact that great customer support is an essential key to a successful business.  It is a primary piece that should be constantly evaluated and refined, looking at all aspects of your customer support practices. One element that can get  'left behind' is the customer self-help knowledge base.  It can be a big undertaking to put all of the FAQ's and customer information into the knowledge base.  Once done it [...]

BYOD Mobile Security Concerns

In our last post we talked about supporting mobile users and the increase of 'Bring Your Own Device' practices.  Here is a great article from Gartner that speaks to some of the security concerns related to BYOD's. “Shifting from an enterprise-owned mobile device fleet to having employees bringing their own devices has a major impact on the way of thinking and acting about mobile security,” said Dionisio Zumerle, principal research analyst at Gartner. “Policies and [...]

Supporting Your Mobile Users

  With today’s workforce becoming more mobile than ever, supporting workers in a mobile environment is essential to ensuring employees can access the information they need to do their jobs, as well as easily comply with company documentation.  The added acceptance of Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) to the workplace is allowing workers to do more of their work on their own personal Smart Phones and tablets. A web based platform allows workers to access [...]

Novo Solutions & Public Stuff — Boost Philly 311 Citizen Call Center

Citizen Relationship Management Portal Like peanut butter and jelly, some things that are great individually are even better joined together; that is the case when Novo Solutions and Public Stuff came together with Citizen Relationship Management to help enhance city 311 services for the citizens of Philadelphia. The City of Philadelphia currently (2012) uses the Novo Citizen Relationship Management Software to track issues in their Philly 311 citizen services program.  It is a great tool [...]

Request Tracking Software – People, Issues & Assets

When You Need to Track: Request Tracking -People, Issues & Assets Part III Almost like Dorothy sings in the Wizard of Oz... Lions, Tigers, and Bears Oh My, over and over to convince herself - request tracking can have you repeating yourself in more ways than one.  Over the past couple weeks, we have looked at the benefits of bringing help desk software out of IT and into the workplace.  Here is another great example [...]

Using Help Desk Software | Atypical Tracking Part II

Last week we looked at the benefits of bringing help desk software out of IT and into the workplace.  This weeks post speaks to using help desk software to solve a unique human resources problem. Using Help Desk Software for tracking People/Issues An innovative IT technician in a hospital setting uses his help desk software to solve a regulatory compliance issue.  In his state it is required that all employee illnesses be recorded, so that [...]

Novo Help Desk Software | Tracking Technical Equipment

When we think of help desk software, of course, we think of the “IT help desk”, and with good reason.  Help desk software has bypassed the old methods of emails, spreadsheets and homegrown databases to track requests.  But did you know this same software is ideal for other kinds of workplace tracking? Over the next few weeks, we’ll look at some of the unique ways our customers are using the Novo Help Desk to keep [...]

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