Tip of the week – The Red Dot



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Remember The Red Dot episode from Seinfled, the greatest show ever? (Tenmiles has a serious bunch of Seinfeld fans too). Read on to see what our very own red dot in Helpdesk Pilot means.

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The red circle that may appear at the end of the ticket box, indicates that the last reply on the ticket has been sent by the customer. This can be particularly useful while going through the tickets on the Ticket view page to immediately identify those tickets which requires the staff’s attention. Once the ticket has been replied to by the staff, the red circle will go away and be replaced by a more soothing grey one. 

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Your staff can now go ahead and work towards attending to those tickets with the red dot, just by taking a glance at the tickets view page. 

Useful? Leave us a comment.


What’s New Series – Part 1: Dashboard – A great place to start



It’s a great feeling to be able to share some of the new features that Helpdesk Pilot V5 offers. This series will cover some of the new features and functionalities of the product, along with side notes on what’s been planned for the future enhancement of each of these features. We start with the Dashboard page. 

When your help desk staff log in to the software every time, the Dashboard provides them some information about recent activities on the system with an emphasis on the tasks assigned to him or her. 

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The Tickets Overview section shows the overall state of the tickets in your helpdesk. Your help desk staff could work towards bringing down the count of each of these numbers. 

The Pending tickets shows a count of the tickets in your help desk, that are in pending state, in categories that the staff is a part of. Note, you could have any number of statuses in pending state.

The Assigned tickets shows a count of all the tickets in your help desk, that are assigned to the logged in staff user, and are in pending state.

The last number shows the number of tickets in pending state across the system and not just in the categories that the staff belongs to. Note, by default Critical is the highest priority order. You can add your own priorities and the one with the highest order will be shown in this section. 

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The Ticket Inflow, represented in the form of a line graph shows the number of incoming tickets over the last 7 days. The X-axis denotes the days and the Y-axis denotes the number of tickets. This shows the number of tickets that were created in your help desk on each day. You can zoom in further to view the break up of incoming tickets per day. 

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The two pie graphs, Tickets by Status and Tickets by Priority show a distribution of all the pending tickets in your system, split up by the various statuses and priorities in your help desk. Clicking on the pies in the status graph, will take the user to the tickets view filtered by the status clicked on. The same feature, for the Tickets by Priority graph, will be coming soon!

The Just In section shows the five most recent tickets that have been created in your help desk along with the name of the customer who created it. Clicking the refresh link at the bottom of the Just In section, updates the set of tickets right there. 

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The Recent Replies and Recent Private Notes shows the recent updates on tickets in the categories that the logged in staff has access to.

What’s more, you can reorder all of these sections on the page, as you please. Simply click and drag any of these sections around the page to view all this information in the order most relevant to you.

What’s coming up: A more comprehensive news feed of all other activity that has been performed on the help desk. Such as any new update on tickets (due date, moving a ticket to another category, tickets deleted etc), new reports created, new smart rules created and much more.

Do let us know what you think and leave us a comment! 


Helpdesk Pilot at CeBit 2011. Come and visit us!



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We’re exhibiting at CeBIT 2011!

CeBIT is the world’s leading ICT tradeshow and takes place this year in the beautiful city of Hannover, Germany from March 1-5. 

We’ll be there, exhibiting Helpdesk Pilot, meeting with our customers from across the region and offering product demonstrations of the latest V5 release, our most extensive Helpdesk Pilot release till date.

V5 incorporates a number of amazing new features and we’ll be available at CeBIT 2011 to personally interact with end users and highlight all the new capabilities that Helpdesk Pilot has to offer.

We’d love to extend an invitation to you, to visit CeBIT 2011 and drop by our stand, H08 in Hall 6.

If you’re in the area and keen on visiting CeBIT 2011, please let us know and we’d be happy to provide you with a free 1-day pass. 

We look forward to seeing you there!



What’s kept us busy



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Ladies & Gentlemen,

It gives us immense pleasure to introduce you to Helpdesk Pilot, V5. 

V5 represents the most feature rich and capable Helpdesk Pilot release till date, building on the aims and objectives of our development efforts ever since Helpdesk Pilot was first conceived in 2005.

Over the last year, we’ve collected feedback from our valued clients across the world and studied their help desk requirements to understand the core capabilities that a help desk management application should ideally be able to deliver on. All this feedback was pooled in to our development resources and we’re excited about the significant capabilities that Helpdesk Pilot now has to offer.

V5 offers a tremendous number of new features and enhancements. Some of the key highlights include:

  • an all-new reporting architecture, allowing for custom reports to be built on-the-fly using any combination of data sources across the help desk
  • a revamped user interface, offering a more flexible working environment to help desk staff
  • more customizable options, to bring your help desk in line with your business processes

For a detailed look at what V5 has to offer, please visit the features page.

Helpdesk Pilot V5 is ready to be shipped against all new purchases made, beginning today. 

For existing users of Helpdesk Pilot (with valid support/upgrade contracts), we are planning a data migration cycle to allow you to move to V5 and will be releasing a separate post on this shortly. In addition, we will be communicating with you individually to update you on this process. (Migration cycles will take place during the month of April)

We invite you to browse through our revamped site, sign up for a free trial and savour the all-new Helpdesk Pilot. 

V5 is just the beginning. There are even greater things in store for Helpdesk Pilot and we look forward to bringing them your way.

Cheers!