Customer Service Management

Boost productivity for customer service agents and field service teams by giving them one, AI-powered workspace to manage support cases, major incidents, and jobs in the field with a complete view of every customer. Automatically route work to the best team member for the job and seamlessly support customers across any channel - email, phone, chat, messaging, self-service portals, in-person, and more. Personalise every conversation and surface intelligent recommendations using trusted CRM data that's natively integrated with the Salesforce Platform.

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Help service teams deliver accurate, faster resolutions with a unified and powerful workspace.

Give your agents the most relevant data and the right tools to support customers on any channel. Automate the distribution of cases in your service organization so every customer receives the fastest and most accurate resolution.

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Intelligently route work from any channel to the right agent for the most efficient resolution based on skill set, availability, and capacity. Automatically route work items to the most available and qualified queues, agents, or even Einstein Bots to assist customers more effectively and close cases faster.

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Increase customer satisfaction and reduce agent handle time with AI-generated replies on SMS, Whatsapp, and more. Use Einstein Service Replies on any channel to analyze content from customer conversations in real time and generate replies based on the conversation or data from your company's trusted knowledge base. Agents can share these replies with customers with a single click, or edit them before sending.

Generative AI-Powered Service Replies

Service Planner uses generative AI-powered step-by-step plans based on case-specific data to streamline customer support, enhance agent productivity, accelerate agent onboarding and ensure company policy compliance. By integrating intelligent automation with detailed service plans, organisations can achieve higher service standards, optimise resource allocation, and improve overall customer satisfaction.

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Generative AI-Powered Service Replies
Service Planner using generative AI to provide a step-by-step plan in the Service Console.

Empower agents and customers to quickly find the answers they need.

Help agents and customers quickly find the best answers to commonly asked questions and solve cases faster with knowledge articles. Easily surface relevant articles and resources in your Help Center or in the agent console to reduce the cognitive load on your customer support team. Rather than connecting directly to an agent, customers can find the information and answers they need on their own time.

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Improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction with relevant knowledge article recommendations that appear directly where your agents work. Help agents resolve customer cases efficiently by recommending articles that were attached to similar cases in the past. Agents can quickly select the most relevant article and attach it to the case or send directly to the customer — saving time by avoiding searching or scrolling through long lists of articles.

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Improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction with relevant knowledge article recommendations that appear directly where your agents work. Help agents resolve customer cases efficiently by recommending articles that were attached to similar cases in the past. Agents can quickly select the most relevant article and attach it to the case or send directly to the customer — saving time by avoiding searching or scrolling through long lists of articles.

Generative AI-Powered Search Answers

Discover which Service Cloud capabilities and implementation best practices you need to empower agents and help customers to quickly find answers.

My Service Journey in the Service Console.
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Generative AI-Powered Search Answers
My Service Journey in the Service Console.

Improve productivity with collaborative service.

Instantly collaborate to solve cases, address incidents and complete field service requests faster by swarming in Slack. Quickly bring together the right experts with Expert Finder and kick-off a swarm channel directly from a case or incident in just a few clicks. Our native integration means your agents can participate in a Slack swarm without ever leaving the console, swarm members have access to critical CRM data and records from the Service Cloud for Slack app. Plus, swarming data is automatically sent back to Salesforce to ensure all context is captured in one place.

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Transform your swarming processes with automated workflows. Save time by quickly capturing swarm learnings into knowledge articles directly in Slack, which can then be edited and published in Salesforce. Use Workflow Builder to eliminate manual tasks such as routing work to other departments, or accelerate processes like onboarding and budget approvals — freeing up agent time so they can focus on helping customers.

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Get a complete view of your swarming metrics with out-of-the-box reports and dashboards. Monitor swarm participation to understand your top contributors and identify areas for improvement. Analyze swarming trends, review productivity, and get insight into the impact of swarming on key service metrics — such as time to resolution.

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A swarm dashboard showing the analytics of a company's Slack Swarms

Resolve disruptions faster to decrease costs and maximize ROI.

Customer Service Incident Management

Stay one step ahead of major disruptions with incident management best practices built directly into Service Cloud. Monitor systems with out-of-the-box integrations to detect potential problems, and take action before widespread impact. Empower your service and operations teams to work in harmony with all case, incident, and customer data in one unified workspace.

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Diagnose and resolve incidents faster with the right tools and proven workflows for your team. Streamline collaboration with experts across your organization with swarming built into the Service Cloud for Slack app. Quickly identify impacted assets, uncover the root cause, and find a solution. Use a work plan to capture the necessary steps to deploy a fix and ensure the incident does not reoccur.

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Build customer confidence and streamline internal communications with centrally managed real-time status updates. Reduce incoming cases by proactively notifying customers of an active incident before they reach out, and providing updates across digital channels. Keep agents and internal stakeholders informed on the latest incident status and empower them to address customer inquiries with broadcast alerts in the Service Console or via Slack.

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Broadcast emails, a broadcast site banner, broadcast slack messages, and broadcast alerts displayed on PCs and a phone.

Drive field team efficiency and provide a seamless customer experience with a unified view.

Field Service Management

Shift from reactive to proactive service with real-time asset tracking. Monitor service outcomes and create preventive maintenance plans based on asset use, condition, and specific criteria. For example, you can schedule service if an asset's temperature exceeds a set threshold — ensuring smooth operations and preventing downtime.

Asset Service Management

Our Field Service mobile app — available on Android and iOS — is the ultimate all-in-one tool tailored for the demands of today's mobile workforce. Designed as an offline-first application, it enables your front line to work and seamlessly save changes even without wifi. Plus, the app offers extensive customisation options, so it can aligns perfectly with your unique business requirements.

Field Service Mobile App

Simplify the entire work order management process to seamlessly create, assign, execute, and debrief work orders. Empower your team to stay agile, improve customer satisfaction, and drive growth by eliminating manual paperwork and digitising the entire work order lifecycle.

Word Order Management

Boost customer satisfaction with simplified appointment scheduling. Easily configure locations, hours, and the right resources using our Setup Assistant. Empower customers to book, edit, or cancel appointments across any channel, including your self-service portal. Seamlessly integrate your Salesforce data to create personalised scheduling experiences and capture new leads.

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Service Cloud FAQ.

Service Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

Service Cloud is the most complete and connected platform. Service Cloud drives agent productivity and increases customer satisfaction by connecting support tools into one easy-to-use platform, that is integrated into the Salesforce platform, which results in a unified and effective customer experience.

Service Cloud is focused on customer service and support, enabling businesses to manage and resolve customer inquiries. Sales Cloud, on the other hand, is designed for sales teams to manage leads, opportunities, and customer relationships throughout the sales process.

Service Cloud is used by businesses of all sizes, across industries, around the world, that require customer service and support capabilities and are looking to streamline and enhance their customer service operations.

An agent console is a user interface within a customer service platform, like Service Cloud, that provides customer service agents with a centralized view of customer information, easy-to-use connected tools, and productivity workflows. It helps businesses by enabling agents to efficiently handle customer inquiries, access relevant data, and deliver personalized and efficient support.