Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The help desk software market is growing rapidly as ...

The rise of social media should horrify any company with crappy customer service. Right now, with minimal effort, any disgruntled customer can use a service like Twitter to voice their complaints to ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Modern help desk software has to fulfill many requirements nowadays. It must simultaneously ...

A help desk professional is someone that balances customer service skills with technical competency to assistant internal employees or external clients with computer or technological issues. Internal ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which ...

Not content to rest on its laurels after its Dreamforce conference earlier this month, Salesforce has announced it has acquired Assistly, a customer service help desk that engages with users in real ...

Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately US$50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday. Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff praised Assistly’s ...

For customer-facing support sites, help desk software offers product registration, the ability to manually download software updates and product documentation, and back-end hooks to the customer ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which ...

Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately $50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday. Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff praised Assistly’s ...