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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 [...]
Customer support is a key focus here at Novo. Because of the nature of our business, we practice this on two levels. Firstly, we are in business. We have customers. Therefore we must ensure that we are supporting our customers. Not only is excellent customer service a key part of our business model, but businesses that don’t support their customers don’t stay in business very long. Secondly, our business software revolves around helping others provide [...]
Searching for software online can be an unpleasant task. Whether for a work application or personal use, success in getting the right software can be key to saving time and money. I straddle both sides of this fence. As marketing manager for Novo Solutions I want to provide our visitors with the information they need to evaluate our software in ways that make it easy for them. My job also involves utilizing software to aid [...]
For years industry experts such as Gartner and Forrester have been forecasting the growth of hosted services, but many businesses have been slow to embrace ‘the Cloud’. Some organizations are leery of posting sensitive company data in the cloud while others have business needs that are not met in current hosted offerings. Many are doing business as usual adopting a ‘wait and see’ attitude to see how technology evolves, but recent events may bring big [...]
When purchasing software there are many considerations including evaluating features, but did you know that there can be big differences in the deployment model as well? Typical deployment models: Shareware/Freeware: This is usually a basic version of the vendor’s software. It is free but there may be costs for additional users and features. Some have term limitations while others have unlimited use but may have other restrictions. Make sure you read all the fine print [...]
We all love the MasterCard ‘priceless' commercials, so here at Novo we have created a version of our own. Average cost of email customer support request- $21.00 Average National cost of a desktop incident - $ 32.00 Keeping your current customers happy with great customer support - priceless! Well, not exactly priceless, but you get the idea. In a recession it is all too easy to move focus to increasing sales - after all, companies cannot [...]
Haven't the Olympics been wonderful this year? Perhaps it is because the economic climate has been so wearisome that the simple joys of the Olympic Games have seemed so bright. To pause and watch all of these skilled athletes perform in the beautiful Canadian landscape has been truly refreshing. Like the athletes, we all have goals to achieve success and train for them day-in and day-out in our own workplace. Providing first-class customer support is [...]
In an effort to secure revenues businesses are going to great lengths to acquire new clients, but now more than ever is the time to ensure you are providing superior customer service to keep the clients you have. Customer Service Software is no longer a 'nice to have', it is a 'need to have'. Keeping up with the Jone's as they say, means establishing the best customer service policy around. With staff limitations and manpower [...]
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has brought sweeping changes into patient data management by addressing the security and privacy of health data. If you are managing patient data in your company support tracking system, you need to insure you are HIPPA compliant. The Novo Support Software guards your personal patient data by allowing fully configurable settings to protect sensitive information. By means of secure authentication only permitted users can access your company [...]
One thing I have been thinking about recently is how people live with inefficient service software systems for handling customer service. Many times we find that companies continue using email to track and respond to customer service requests even receiving 100+ emails/day. They have no real way to ensure things are not falling through the cracks and reporting is non-existent. Often, when budgets are tight, they just can't seem to justify investing in a service [...]