Remote Desktop Software Use for Providing Customers with Technical Support

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  • Author Yuriy Petrovich
  • Published March 4, 2011
  • Word count 905

In case you are about to initiate a business don't forget about the fact that you are going to deal with man, not with machines or robots. Our nature makes us unpredictable in questions we are not very good at. Believe you or not, but nowadays when run a business you have to deal with computers, faxes, phones, printers and other gadgets. Having a big staff means a big headache for corporate's network admin as he is the authorized person to deal with all PCs and their issues in your company. All things become even more serious when you are a technical support (Helpdesk) corporation.

Customers your support department is going to support are people without deep computer knowledge who always have many questions about PC configuration and application use that are hard to be clarified and overcame over the phone. PC Remote Control solutions provide an opportunity to help your company's clients and make a helpdesk process itself easier and available. New remote support software products allow to browse, explore and control remote PCs placed either in one LAN with Administrator's PC or in the Internet.

Lots of diverge PC remote control tools are listed on a market. They are available either free for non-commercial use and on a shareware basis. Private users may use free remote control software like build-in Windows Remote Desktop Connection, free Remote Control PC (http://www.remote-control-pc.com) and others. Free offers have less abilities comparing to commercial applications, but they are fully enough for private use. Commercial solutions like well-known Remote Desktop Control product or new "Anyplace Control" (http://www.anyplace-control.com) offer a lot of additional options, better adapted for corporate use and free technical support is guaranteed.

Using remote pc control software you can assist either your company's workers whenever they need a PC trouble resolve or to assist your users whose support is an exact kind of business you run. Help that can be performed to your company's clients with a remote control PC solutions covers a lot of troubles.

If you are a network admin of big corporation and your job is to fix company's PCs, update software, etc. - there is no necessity to drive e.g. 40 miles to far company's branch just to update an antivirus or to change a few Windows settings. Remote support software allows you to do all that stuff remotely via the Internet and your firm do not have to pay for a patrol, that makes a support not only extremely fast and efficient, but also environmental friendly, that is rather important today.

Also there is a pretty big task like a support of 'internal' users, i.e. your firm workers. Too many times someone has forgotten how to perform one or another operation, pushed a wrong button, etc. Network admin may get to any PC located in the company's building to help employee, despite the difference where the user is actually located, either on the fifth or eleventh floor or in next room.

Being a vendor of any specific tool like accounting software, be ready to get many phone calls asking how to get one or another option, perform a report, etc. It would be a much easier to achieve a remote PC and to show a remote client where the option user needs is located. Furthermore, with the assistance of PC remote control software a remote tutoring can be provided. You may teach remote clients how to operate the program and they don't have to attend any classes as a tutoring session can be performed online. Most of remote desktop control solutions have a chat or voice chat feature, for remote clients to ask questions and get answers they are interested in.

Big firms or entrepreneurs often have a necessity to support remote clients, thus an effectiveness of remote access software (http://www.anyplace-control.com/anyplace-control/text/remote-access-software.shtml) is evident. On time support of a remote client boosts his or her confidence in your firm that does care about clients. When the problem is solved in a few moments after it occurred - that will keep your clients with your firm for a very long time. Even more, as it was already said - using a remote PC control tool your company saves fuel expenses for the technical specialist to drive to remote PC to fix the problem. Even more company may save expenses by reducing its employees - there is no need to have 5 supporters if a single supporter may get to any remote PC located worldwide and to fix the problem at the blink of an eye.

On the other hand your clients also save money as a remote help is cheaper than a traditional one, besides the faster your firm sorts out the issue - the faster your client is again in a business. There is no need to keep waiting for several hours for employee to come to the office for 5 minutes work.

Thus, depending on which type of helpdesk your company uses - either a traditional or a modern one, with a use of remote control PC software your relationships with users will become warm and trust or rather problematic. Try not to forget, if customers are not satisfied with the treatment they get - you will be changed with another service supplier company. PC remote control solutions - that is a right way to success in a modern business.

Yuriy Goncharuk is developer of PC remote control software and remote access software

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