Successful customer service requires connecting the dots across an entire organization’s teams, systems, and data to address customer needs seamlessly and efficiently. A task of this magnitude and facets comes with myriad challenges. Automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and other advanced technologies can help. Let's explore three ways you can use emerging tech to address your customers' needs proactively and effectively.

With more than 7,000 customers and double the number of employees ServiceNow had four years ago, our digital technology (formerly IT) operations team faced increased demand for compute, storage, and bandwidth. At the same time, we had to maintain tight security controls. We embrace a three-zero strategy: zero unplanned outages, zero physical footprint, and zero user-reported incidents.

Lionel Ritchie thinks Sunday morning is easy. Ella Fitzgerald thinks living is easy when it’s summertime. Loving is easy too, according to Rex Orange County. I haven’t heard anyone sing about customer experience just yet (Alexa?). But every time I preorder my Starbucks latte so it’s waiting for me at the store on my way to work, I’m reminded just how important easy is. If easy is the on/off switch for great experience, then speed controls the volume.

How a Northern-European car manufacturer dramatically reduced incoming tickets related to low disk space using 4 key automations. Incident tickets are an unavoidable, routine aspect of working in IT. But failing to identify and solve the root cause of the issue behind repeated tickets will cause unresolved tickets to pile up, creating a huge disruption for IT and employees.

Learn how one Financial Institution stopped a flood of recurring IT tickets in its tracks with an automated 1-click fix When an L1 agent faces a mounting pile of IT tickets, it is hard to be anything but reactive. They need to resolve the issue as fast as possible and restore employee productivity. But when it comes to resolving the same IT ticket over and over again, no Service Desk team should have to do that more than once.

If the Service Desk sees IT tickets pile up around a particular application, their first thought will be to identify and troubleshoot a recent issue or bug. However, employee frustrations aren’t always from technical failures and those tickets can be much harder to diagnose and resolve.