IT Support Management Solutions
SuportPortal is comprehensive package for implementing multi-tiered service and suitable for internal and external customers. It automates your service desk procedures, including notifications and responses to service issues improves overall efficiency and reduces management overhead. Using Self-Service features, end users can submit new requests or check the status of their open requests, from their email client or from web-browser.
Takes issue and request management to the next level, and efficiently track, route and resolve tickets with lifecycle management package. It makes quick and easy to capture data about an issue, but with a host of powerful features that allow you to use that data. Queues allow for tickets to be routed to the best available person or group of people. Dashboards and reporting allow you to keep track of how a thing are going, and lets management stay in the loop.
via public or protected data entry form: Tickets are the primary way of
storing and sharing information in SupportPortal. 
Escon SupportPortal can respond to incoming emails, allowing users to
create or comment on tickets without necessarily having access to SupportPortal.
Invoke sending message from SupportPortal, and
store and review all your service and support communication in centralized database.
Desktop application for Microsoft Windows which resides in your system
tray and connects to your SupportPortal server. 
With simple e-mail account administration and
specifying the ticket priority and assigning person or department,
your e-mail driving is finally centralized, even without described
escalation rules. 
Define
automated routing and assigning rules with pre-defined target response and
resolution times for every incoming ticket. 
SupportPortal keeps you up to date with timely email notifications:
determine who, how and when to send notifications
about ticket statuses -Creation, Assignment, Updated and Closed. 
An easy way to predefine your email layouts:
New ticket notification, Lost-password, New user registration, ticket Assigned,
Reply and Closed. 
Add your own custom fields to ticket record to record information in an
online database. Custom fields can be text input, radio button, check
box or selection lists. 
of a ticket is maintained
to facilitate audit processes. SupportPortal automatically records all
activity and changes to an ticket, including: assignee, priority, workflow and status, due date,
any other field (including custom fields). 
Categorize each
ticket using custom classification scheme. You can even take default ITIL scheme, or develop your own in accordance with your
environment and your service type. 
Track the time spent on each request down to the minute, and ensures
that project timelines are always up-to-date. Whenever you work on an
ticket, simply log the time spent (in minutes). 
Insert any of the knowledge base articles
right into a reply text, so user can refer himself to a previously solved issue or request. 
Define and insert quick response to support emails and customers
ask. Set pre-defined answers that can be inserted into any reply by a single
mouse click. 
Private and internal notes within a ticket provides a
clean way to discuss an request internally before providing a reply to the customer.
Acts as an effective knowledge sharing medium, boosting support productivity by leveraging collective knowledge and assists in effective knowledge management. Allows you to document best practices and solutions to common problems in an online knowledge base. Using the searchable knowledge base, both the support stuff and the end users can search for solutions to common problems.
Add knowledgebase entries using the
integrated HTML editor and create rich text, links, lists,
attach related files, images, etc directly through your web browser. 
Group related projects -
great to provide consistent answers to customer issues, generate a list of FAQs,
and provide management with information about the most prevalent concerns. 
You can assign permissions for access to each
category by client's organization or group, if you exclude the particular category from public access. 
Users are allowed to see useful statistics
about your knowledge base, including most popular questions and the latest published
articles.
Find articles and solutions based on keyword and description.
User can enter and combine the target keywords and search through whole knowledgebase in a matter of milliseconds.
Extend your local article database search to external search engines or stored knowledge base sites:
Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, MSN Live or similar. 
Allow users to comment on your questions and answers. Automatically approve comments, or
manually approve them from within your Dashboard. 
Organize
dictionary with most used terms. Every of defined terms is linked with the
articles and appears underlined in text, so a user can see tooltip
with the term described in dictionary. 
Gives customers answers to their questions on the spot in real-time. You can make a positive personal impression on your site visitors, in order to cultivate leads and increase resolution. Website administrator is able to monitor all the operator's activity, in regards to if they are online and engage in a chat request. Full listing of all the current chat sessions that are taking place are visible to operators.
Place Live Chat button on your website.
Whenever you log-in to Live Help, the clients will see the on-line image and
feel reassured that they have access to a live person. 
Initiate a chat with a user that is browsing your
website with single click on address from the main Live Chat Panel. This
will launch a window on the visitor’s browser. 
See all visitors on your website as visitors move from page to page. View
visitor's IP address, host name, country, pages visited, referrer address,
and other information. Use Windows client software
allows you to be logged to your
Live Chat and appears as online to your visitors. Operator Console can be
minimized to Windows System Tray 
This feature allows you to transfer any live
chat from one operator to the next simply by clicking on the transfer icon and
choosing to whom you wish to transfer. While you chat with your customers and end-users, you can
insert predefined
responses. 
As conversations occur during the normal course of using live
chat, they are recorded to database, and available for fast searching by visitor, date,
title and the conversation text. This feature set allows you to quickly
change from being available
to not being available by a simple toggle button located on the main Live Chat Control
Panel. 
Upload your company logo and operator
photo. Customize operator greeting and system messages. Set visitor message and system
messages.
Take a look at
what your customer is typing even before
the message is appeared in conversation window. 
Sounds play when a new message is received or someone enters
the room. Sounds play when a new message is received or someone enters the chat. 
User forum is fully integrated with SupportPortal and allows fully searchable threads, categories and messages through search engine and track and display messages that have not yet been read by the current user. Site administrator is able to fully administer user forum: create topics and categories, set permissions for users and specialists depending on user roles, create categories and set permissions depending on customer's typical interests, products or services.
Track and display messages that have not yet been read by the current user.
Create topics and categories as much as you need to. Set permissions for users and administrators depending on SupportPortal roles. 
Upload an image along with a message
posting. The other types of files are also allowed to be uploaded. Images can be
uploaded to a forum and displayed inline in message postings easily. 
Keep your customers satisfied and informed through simple yet powerful Newsletter and Announcements Management system. Publish news and announcements about products and services to target audiences. Send formatted news to their email inbox, or simple alerts available as they login to service solution.
Create news and announcements and
keep your customers satisfied and informed. Choose to create and edit news with built-in HTML
editor or import your news text created with your favorite editor. 
Maintain an newsletter
list that allows for widespread distribution of information to your customers.
Subscription management allows collecting e-mail addresses directly from your
website. 
Unlike other newsletter management
systems, there are no built in limitations for the number of subscribers and
mailing lists that you can have. Bulk import existing subscriptions also available. 
With direct connection to a web announcements form,
you can choose to publish newsletter to any of the particular email lists, registered
customers and end-users or send simple alerts available to a users as they
login to their help desk. 
Filter the content your customer is able to view on your service solution based on the products they have purchased and save time managing document distribution. Leverage all of those products and white by indexing them and making them available 24x7.
Register your product and services to establish the availability of files in the download center.
Use permissions and records to ensure users have access to the
appropriate documents and filter the content your customer is able to
view. 
Store different types of your
documents and binaries and make them ready for public or private download:
Word documents, PDF files, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations,
HTML, XML, source and text files, ZIP files, and your own proprietary
software formats. 
If you successfully make the Product Catalog and product related download
list, you are able to take advantage of saving time with managing
binaries and documents distribution. 
While accessing your binaries,
users are allowed to review and print document description,
rate it toward
their usability, send e-mail notification to their colleagues, put their
comments and then download to the local storage. 
Every user activity is tracked and
analyzed, so you are able to view download history and print corresponding report.
As built from the ground up as a browser based
application, users are not required to install
any special software on their workstations.
Individual users can select a language of their choice. It's not the
user interface multilingual only, but user data, too.
Permission's system gives you
fine-grained control over precisely what any user can do and ability to
isolate every of access points for a single customer.
You can allow visitors to access part or all of the site
without having them sign in. Depending on your organization's
requirements, you can close the site to anonymous visitors.
Dynamically synchronize
your LDAP database with User management (Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell's NetWare Directory,
etc.).
Report on virtually any dimension
of your requests: unresolved high-priority tickets,
number of tickets per customer,
average resolution time,
estimated vs. actual time taken, etc.
SupportPortal will run on your
existing hardware and software platform. SupportPortal can be up and running on
your system in less than 5 minutes, even on shared
web servers.
Administration includes users, groups
and permissions, monitoring the server's usage, and configuring the
particular modules.
Add your logo and colors in just a few mouse-clicks: configuring the embedded HTML code allows you to manage Header, Footer, Welcome Page and more.
Use predefined templates to control and change software
overall look and design at your whim or design your own theme.
Fetch all available databases: Knowledge Base, Downloads, News with advanced search algorithm and
retrieve pages with keyword results ranking.
When a customer does a search within the
Knowledge base / Download and nothing is found, a screen opens automatically
allowing the customer to submit a request by email
to have the information to be added to the portal.
For users that prefer to use IMAP protocol as
a method of accessing electronic mail that are kept on a mail server, the IMAP
support has been added.
The Calendar with simple task recording
for managing daily tasks. Internal Web notification system for internal stuff -
send messages to persons or teams. 
