ServiceDesk Plus Cloud for Microsoft Teams
by Zoho Corporation Private Limited
Copilot driven, Use ServiceDesk Plus Cloud to extend your IT via Microsoft Teams
The cloud version of ServiceDesk Plus now integrates with Microsoft Teams and Teams Copilot, leveraging the collaboration app from Microsoft as an additional channel for IT and enterprise support.
Service desk teams can now integrate the incident management module of ServiceDesk Plus as a tab inside their organization's Teams interface. This enables technicians and end users to perform a host of request management activities, including
Channeling major incident management.
Handling major incidents is always a challenge, and could turn out to be a disaster if a business doesn't know the status of an incident. It's also important that any possible workarounds and solutions are quickly and easily shared with end users to avoid repeat and duplicate incidents.
Service desk teams can leverage conversations in Teams to:
Tag relevant and necessary service desk members to get them working on tasks.
Post regular updates about each incident to the members of a channel, including service desk teams and end users.
Search and publish relevant solutions from ServiceDesk Plus.
Handling tickets through chatbots.
Both technicians and end users need various kinds of information about their service desk tickets during the ticket life cycle. The built-in Teams chatbot now allows them to interact with ServiceDesk Plus to fetch information and perform various service desk actions right from within Teams for quicker resolution. Technicians can perform activities like adding notes, approving requests, picking up requests, assigning requests to technicians, and resolving tickets through the actionable cards within the chat window. The list of chatbot commands include:
An active subscription to 'ServiceDesk Plus Cloud’ is required to use this app or you can also sign up to ServiceDesk Plus Cloud for a 30 day free trial.
App capabilities
- Can send data over the Internet
- This app can access personal information on the active message, such as phone numbers, postal addresses, or URLs. The app may send this data to a third-party service. Other items in your mailbox can’t be read or modified.