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Social interactions

Solution overview

Social networking is the biggest trend to hit the Internet in the last few years. Aided by the rapid adoption of smart phones, consumers are sharing their views about products and companies much more easily through Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and forums. This free-flowing viral conversation is a challenge and opportunity for your business. Unaddressed negative perceptions can easily spin out of control to become a public relations nightmare for your business. On the other hand, a timely, appropriate response to complaints or negative perceptions is seen as a sign of caring.

eGain® Social™ is a one-of-a-kind product for social customer service, knowledge harvesting and single-sourced social publishing, and reputation management. It enables you to monitor social networks such as Facebook®, Twitter® and blogs for customer queries, analyze their content, analyze search results for sentiment, route them intelligently, and post responses privately or back to the social cloud in media-customized formats. For instance, Twitter posts use shortened URLs and conform to the 140 character limit.

When combined with eGain SelfService and configured appropriately, social knowledge is displayed as part of self-service portal searches. eGain Social is an integral part of the eGain 10 Customer Interaction Hub Suite.

 
 
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How can eGain Social help you?

Social customer service

Using eGain Social Adapters, eGain Social “listens” to queries posted on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs, for listed and relevant keywords.
The community manager or the workflow engine analyzes and routes the queries intelligently to the right queue or agent.
The agent desktop seamlessly blends social queries with those from traditional channels like phone, email, SMS, chat, and cobrowse. This allows agents to get a 360Plus™ social-blended view of the customer and the context.
With the help of a trusted multichannel knowledge base, they provide an answer to the query, which gets posted back to the social cloud or to the individual customer.
The contact center manager is able to measure and manage service metrics such as response time by agent or queue, topic trends, etc.

Knowledge harvesting

The solution facilitates harvesting of the best of social knowledge, and single-sourced proactive publishing across social and traditional to maximize ROC (Return on Content).
Social content are included as a seamless part of federated search results.

Reputation management

Social networks, blogs, and forums are monitored for discussions about the company.
These mentions are then analyzed by factors such as the sentiment and the influence of the social user and routed as a task to the right person or queue in the business.
Community managers and agents can proactively monitor social conversations and seamlessly switch a social interaction to a discreet, private conversation without losing context.
The community manager is able to measure and manage metrics such as positive and negative trends in brand mentions, effectiveness and speed of responses by agent, queue, product, or brand.

 

 
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KMWorld Trendsetting Product 2010

October, 2010
eGain® Social™ named a KMWorld Trend-Setting Product of 2010

Software 500 award 2010
October, 2010

eGain named to Software Magazine's 28th Annual Software 500
 
 

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