Microsoft have recently released the Spring Wave 2014 release for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on
Social Listening and this week I’m doing a high level overview on
Customer Care.
Customer Care
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 brought massive improvements to the Case Management/Service module. We have found a lot of success in customers implementing Case Management to improve their support of customers. With the latest Spring release they have added some new features that have strengthened this already great module.
Form Updates
New features on the Case form include:
- Entitlements and SLAs (more later)
- Parent/Child Cases
- Merged Cases
- Similar Cases
- Escalation
- Social Details – profile, influence score, sentiment score
Below highlights some of these new updates:
Automatic Case Creation
A nice new feature is the auto case creation; streamlining the customer service process even more. This case creation can either be via e-mail or social network. Below is the process for email to case:
The process for Social Feed to CRM is as follows:
- Social Activity tracks all posts in CRM
- Social Profile is created to track a contact’s presence in Social media
- Rule driven manual and automated Case creation
This looks like a great feature to steam line the case creation process and ensure that you do not miss any comments/complaints made by your customers.
SLA and Entitlements
Entitlements can be used in Dynamics CRM Cases to Control and specify the amount and type of support, be flexible and define based on number of cases or number of hours, associate entitlements to customers and products and increase productivity by using templates to create for other customers.
Below is a sample of a new screen with a SLA and the associated entitlements:
As you can see an Entitlement has been selected and the available hours/calls can be viewed in the entitlement grid at the bottom right.
SLAs allow you to manage and meet service levels agreed with customers and track key indicators. Below is an example of where an SLA would be used:
Below is a sample SLA screen:
This is just a quick snapshot into some of the new customer service features now available with the Spring Wave 2014 release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Get in touch with us at our website for more details or to request a web demo.
by Richard Dunlop
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