iZ3D Case Study

vetting process, we evaluated a number of alternatives in the customer service, support software market such as Soffront® CRM Software, Salesforce.com® CRM Customer Service, Parature® Customer Service, Web Help Desk Software, Numara Footprints® and Track It!,® Manage Engine® ServiceDesk Plus, and InteQ Infradesk. As we learned more about the Giva's Cloud Computing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach, it became clear that hosted applications would help iZ3D decrease the time to deploy and significantly reduce the complexity of our implementation. We also determined that if we adopted the SaaS approach, we would significantly decrease capital, deployment, labor, operations, network, training, and support costs.

Our customers are passionate gamers who want to communicate with us and provide feedback 24 hours a day. We had to carefully plan for the possibility of a large volume of technical support and feedback in a relatively short amount of time at the launch of the new flagship product. We needed a way to have one-to-one customer support dialogue with our enthusiastic customers without overwhelming our customer support team. Using email was not the right approach. We wanted to generate reports and analytics so we could better understand and solve the root causes of problems. We wanted to easily and quickly provide this information to our geographically dispersed R&D team in the USA and Russia. The tight integration of customer service with our R&D team is critical as the customer service team is our "eyes and ears" to our customer base.

Giva assisted us in the customization and configuration of their customer service software application, and they thoroughly trained our customer service team. There were still a lot of moving parts and unknowns as we were gearing up for our launch, and Giva responded quickly to our requests for help and assistance throughout all phases of the project. They provided outstanding project leadership and worked closely with our customer service and R&D teams.

We needed to integrate a number of custom fields from our web site with the customer service software so that we could efficiently capture important information from our visitors. In order to save money, we did the custom coding ourselves using Giva's Application Programming Interface (API). This important web site integration with Giva's Cloud Computing SaaS was seamless and very fast to implement.

Using Giva KnowledgeManager, we can not only distinguish between internal knowledge and external knowledge, but also use their knowledge management software to offer self-help to our customers using our known problems and solutions.

Giva's customer service and knowledge management software has more features and functionality than all the other alternatives we looked at, and Giva is constantly enhancing their applications and soliciting customer input.

We now have in place a very comprehensive, affordable, reliable and easy-to-use customer service and support application. It is an integral part of our public web site support strategy.

We can instantly make our geographically-dispersed R&D team aware of important hardware and software quality issues and help them prioritize resources. Giva has helped us increase the overall quality of our products.

The Giva dashboards allow us to watch progress and track volume of customer service requests in real-time. The reports are easy to use, quickly provide useful information, and allow drill-down capability from high to very low level detail for root cause analysis.

Giva CustomerService is an outstanding product backed by a company with robust infrastructure and exceptional support. We have experienced 100% uptime using Giva since June 2007. We have a strong partner and advocate with Giva and are very happy with our decision to implement their Cloud Computing customer service management software.