Sharpen up your support act: a guide to helpdesk software and services

Martin Courtney
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Helpdesk system vendors are updating their offerings with social networking functions, cloud options and tighter integration with enterprise software

Service desk, previously known as helpdesk, software has been around for as long as businesses have used computers, with large organisations realising early on that they required some method of rec...

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