Product overview
BMC Helix Customer Service Management enables organizations to ease multiple challenges and provides business advantage.
- It is external Customer facing
- The Customer is at the heart of all interactions, It is all about the Customer
- Handles the customer journey regarding inquiries, complaints, suggestions, service requests, etc. in all sectors like B2B, B2C & B2B2B.
- Customer Service Management is not ITSM
- 16 years of solution existence with happy customers
- Catering to customers from different industries like BFSI, ISP, Telecom, Retail, Healthcare, Automotive, etc.
Benefits
As a modern customer service management solution, BMC Helix Customer Service Management offers the following advantages to its users:
- Increased customer loyalty and engagement
- Improved customer experience
- Makes customers feel heard and satisfied
- Improves brand image and reputation
- High service quality with major focus on self-service
- Reduction in churn
- Increased revenue and market share
- Using a single global case, resolve several cases at once.
- Improved self-service
- Increase FCR, faster customer resolution times
- Quick solutions with knowledge base
- Provides insights to boost operational efficiency and bottom-line
- Provides insightful dashboard for in-depth analysis and better decision making
- Boosts agent performance
- Reduces performance blind spots
- Recognizes opportunities for development and improvement via training
- Provides predictive case monitor for high impact case types
- Easy collaboration with multiple teams; for example, sales, retention, and legal teams.
- Provides greater flexibility in communication
User roles
Product roles | Login Console | Description | Goal |
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Frontline Agent | Frontliner Console | The frontline agent is the company's voice; they are the ones who engage with customers first. They operate at the call center, customer service desk; answer help lines or customer service calls and reply to customer emails or live chats. They create new cases, provide information, troubleshoot issues, resolve problems, and generally work to make sure customers have an excellent service experience. | To create cases |
To view agent performance | |||
Resolver Agent | Resolver Console | The resolver agent is the backbone of a case journey and is responsible for various types of administrative, support, and clerical activities that are essential to the case journey. While the frontline agent is responsible for interacting with the customer and creating the case, the resolver agent handles tasks associated with the resolving the case. Depending on the type of case, the resolver agent has to perform different set of activities which may include recategorization, refund, requesting approvals, reassigning cases, etc. Occasionally, the resolver agent may also act as an approver, provided he has extensive knowledge in the required domain. | To create cases |
To modify and resolve cases | |||
To view agent performance | |||
Supervisor | Supervisor Console | The supervisor is a professional tasked with training and motivating their team of agents as they provide help, answer questions, address grievances, and support customers. They are tasked with helping agents with queries about best practices or challenging calls, as well as monitoring and evaluating agent performance, scheduling appropriate training or coaching opportunities, granting essential approvals, managing various case types and monitoring critical cases. | To provide approvals |
To monitor agent performance | |||
To create and modify global cases | |||
Collaborator | Collaboration Console | Collaborators are groups/departments that are not directly related to the case resolution but may be requested to collaborate on a case by a frontline or resolver agent depending on the customer's requirement. for eg, a customer expressed interest in a particular product or service while talking to an agent on a case resolution. To ensure this lead is not lost, the agent can collaborate with sales and marketing teams These groups can include marketing, sales, retention etc. These groups use the collaboration console where they may access customer and case details and share their comments with the agent. | To provide inputs on a case |
Service Quality Agent | Service Quality Console | The Service Quality agent is tasked with verifying and documenting the customer's experience using the Service Quality Console. The agent can record the customer's experience and also ascertain whether the customer feels that the proper solution had been provided. The agent can also get crucial feedback by asking configurable survey questions that help record the customer's NPS, CES, and CSAT scores which are essential metrics for customer service. | To gather customer feedback via case-based surveys |
Product features
BMC Helix Customer Service Management provides the following key features:
Feature | Description |
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Get a 360 view of the customer | Get a complete view of your customer profile and insights into customer activities by accessing sales history, customer contracts, customer status, case history, NPS, and so on. |
Collaborate with other teams | Collaborate with other teams; for example, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Billing to work on resolving customer requests |
Improve service performance continuously | Leverage metrics for agents and group performances, customer survey results to analyze the improvement areas for customer service resolution. |
Get a 360 view of agent performance | Get a holistic view of the performance of your agents and use domains and soft skill indicators to train your agents. |
Route cases intelligently | Assign cases to agents based on domain skills, case categorization, customer segment, products, and services. |
Support for omni-channel conversation with customers | Connect with customers by using multiple conversation channels such as customer self-service portal, chat, email, phone, and social media. |
Assist agents with customer interactions | Help agents to ask the correct questions to customers, provide resolution to their requests, and offer additional enhanced service options; for example, sales promotions, discounts based on customer profiles, and refund processes. |
Provide solutions using the knowledge base | Provide customers and agents with access to relevant knowledge articles to get quick resolution for their issues. |
Perform feedback surveys based on cases | Understand a customer experience of a case journey by using surveys. |
User roles and activities
The following activities are pre-configured in the system. Activities are completely configurable as per the preference of the organisation.
BMC Helix Customer Service Management includes the following roles and their activities:
Activities | Frontline Agent | Resolver Agent | Supervisor | Collaborator | Service Quality Agent |
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Create a new case | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
First Contact Resolution (FCR) | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Self-assign a case (Assign to me) | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Request supervisor help | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Accept new cases from the group pool (Next Case) | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Search and view cases created | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
Request to collaborate with other groups | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ |
Add comments on the collaboration console | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ |
View customer details - Customer 360 Console | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
View Agent Performance | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Schedule agent training | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Perform an action on multiple cases at a time | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Approve/reject knowledge base articles | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Approve/reject activities by agents (Approver) | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Reassign a case | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Recategorize a case | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Send an email | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
Send a SMS | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
Provide feedback | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ✅️ |
Send request for approval | ❌️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Resolve a case | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Task Completed | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Close | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Callback | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ |
Surveys | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ❌️ | ✅️ |
Refund Adjustment | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Escalate to IT/NOC | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Update to IT | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Supplier Recharge | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Updated from supplier | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |
Feedback to supplier | ❌️ | ✅️ | ✅️ | ❌️ | ❌️ |