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Help Desk Outsourcing Services
Equip Your Org with Effective Support
ScienceSoft will take care of user, software, and IT infrastructure support letting you get the maximum value from your digital environment and shift your focus to strategic goals.
Help desk outsourcing is your possibility to have a knowledgeable support team for your business-critical systems and underlying infrastructure. An outsourcing vendor sets up a fast issue resolution process, charges for the actual workload, and scales the support easily up and down if the demand changes.
In help desk services since 2007, ScienceSoft provides mature and effective L1–L3 support on a 24/7 basis to cover all time zones from North America and Europe to the Gulf region and Oceania.
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For enterprises and product companies
Don’t exhaust yourself with the painful issues your software or IT infrastructure may bring.
For MSPs
Entrust your help desk tasks to a reliable provider with 35 years of experience in IT.
Why Choose ScienceSoft
- 17 years of experience in IT help desk services.
- 35 years of entire experience in IT.
- 750+ IT specialists on board.
- Predictable results and expected service quality due to our ISO 9001-proved quality management system built upon mature company-level policies, motivated people, and transparent service delivery.
- ISO 27001-certified fault-proof security management system to ensure safety of your data we access.
What makes ScienceSoft different
Proactive Help Desk: Fewer Issues, Lower Costs
Proactivity is at the core of our approach to help desk delivery. We not only maintain IT stability but also recommend improvements leading to fewer tickets reported, higher user satisfaction, and optimized help desk costs.
IT Help Desk Support Levels We Offer
To get the most of outsourced IT support, we offer segmenting the support team into different levels according to the complexity of issues they are expected to handle.
Our help desk specialists handle basic user issues, such as restoring access when users forget their passwords setting up peripheral devices, granting or removing access to data or services according to the company's policy, etc. If required, they escalate incidents to L2 for further consideration.
Our L2 engineers resolve complex user-related requests and issues (e.g., user-side applications' configuration and advanced troubleshooting) and handle essential infrastructure tasks and issues like server updates and backup management.
Our L3 engineers tackle complex infrastructure and app-related issues, including troubleshooting on the code level, server virtualization, database design and configuration, defining backup schedules, retention policies, disaster recovery plans, and more.
We don’t take the distribution of tasks between the support levels set in stone. We always look for the opportunities to optimize the cost of help desk outsourcing and ensure fast response and resolution rates for our clients. E.g., we can offload a more expertise-demanding L2 team and delegate some of their tasks to L1 support agents. This happens if we see a frequent L2 issue that our L1 team can handle given they have resolution scenarios and clear sets of instructions.
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What Our Clients Say
BPC had to outsource a Tier 2–3 support team. ScienceSoft has been filling this role for over a year, and their work has made all the difference for our IT operations. They are true engineers who think long term and propose strategic decisions instead of micro-fixes, and, what is equally important, they carry them out as planned.
With their assistance, we optimized a significant part of our IT infrastructure and reduced the share of manual work.
John Dritsas
Chief Technology Officer
Our clients in healthcare rely on Qventive for the support and administration of essential software solutions such as EHR and practice management systems. Timely assistance and resolution are imperative in this field, so when we were faced with a large influx of support requests, having ScienceSoft step in for 24/7 help desk was a lifesaver. Their team quickly adapted to our processes and understood our clients’ expectations from the start.
We appreciate their proactive communication and commitment to quality.
We went with ScienceSoft as our help desk partner and didn’t regret it. ScienceSoft’s team demonstrates high technical competence, a proactive and responsible approach to IT support services, and full compliance with HVG’s SLA. After a year of working together, we requested a ticket package twice as large as the initial one, and now they reliably handle Tier 1 support for many of our clients.
Our IT Help Desk Communication Channels
User self-service portal
Service desk software
Phone
Instant messaging
Social networks
Languages Our Help Desk Teams Speak
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What Makes Our Outsourced IT Help Desk Services Reliable
Technical excellence
We regularly train our specialists to hone their technical skills. As a result, even the Tier 1 agents are able to tackle technical issues outside standard scripts and solve around 60% of all incoming issues without escalation.
Focus on quality
We continuously improve the service quality by knowledge accumulation and transfer, relevant training of help desk agents, monitoring KPIs, and reviewing and optimizing processes to enhance help desk effectiveness.
Effective collaboration
Based on dozens of successful help desk projects we’ve had, we know how to establish collaboration between help desk specialists and developers, admins, the QA team, and other in-house and external professionals.
Flexibility
We adjust to our clients’ diverse and changing requirements for the size and skills of a help desk team, time coverage, pricing models, and communication channels.
Tools We Use in Our Outsourced Help Desk Services
How We Arrange Our IT Help Desk Services
1. Analysis of your request
We analyze your request for outsourced support services, identify user roles and their access levels and estimate the number and urgency of incoming requests. This will help us size up the efforts required for your project.
2. Service planning and SLA preparation
We discuss with you the details of our cooperation and prepare the service level agreement (SLA) accordingly. Depending on a particular case, this document normally includes:
- The description of the support service package and the estimated budget.
- Support hours (for example, 24/7 or 12/5 servicing) and languages of communication.
- The support team’s size and expertise, levels of support provided, contact channels and the type of the ticketing system used.
- Definitions of incident priorities.
- Incident response time depending on its priority.
- A reporting schedule and the data that reports should contain.
To ensure that the chosen scope of our services corresponds to your business needs and expectations, we offer a three-month trial period and can introduce the changes to SLA, if needed.
3. Knowledge and responsibility transfer
We study software documentation, conduct interviews with your company representatives and analyze software functionality. This helps us to understand how software is designed and how it is expected to behave. Then, we prepare the needed documentation and instructions for our team.
When knowledge transfer is completed, we set up a support handover meeting to transfer responsibility from your development or another support team to our help desk specialists.
4. Service delivery
- Processing requests according to SLA: we receive, assess, prioritize, and handle incidents. We regularly update users about the status of their current tickets to keep them informed. Besides incidents, we solve problems that cause multiple similar incidents to occur. This allows for preventing software failures.
- Analyzing results and delivering monthly reports: we provide you with the reports containing the statistics on incidents in the agreed format.
- Gathering user feedback: we collect users’ feedback about software, gather change requests and thus supply get the info that prompts at how to modify software according to user needs.
- Creating the knowledge base: on the basis of the encountered and solved cases, our team prepares FAQs, articles and other materials that can help software users to solve similar incidents. This significantly decreases the number of incoming tickets and reduces incident resolution time.
- Conducting proactive support: monitoring your software and detecting abnormalities in its performance, we identify potential issues and address them even before service tickets come.
- Offering process improvements: using KPIs, we analyze the performance of our help desk team and define possible improvements in help desk operations. After prioritizing these ideas based on potential business results, we discuss them with you and implement the approved improvement ideas.
KPIs to Measure IT Help Desk Efficiency
ScienceSoft offers a possible set of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of the provided support services.
Main KPIs
- First response time (FRT) measures the period between when a customer submits a ticket and a customer support agent provides an initial response.
- Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) is usually based on short surveys that users fill out.
- Resolution Rate (RR) shows the percentage of issues resolved by support agents from the number of total tickets received.
Examples of optional KPIs
- Average time to resolution tracks how long customers have to wait for service agents to resolve their tickets.
- Abandonment rate for calls measures percentage of non-answered calls within the specified timing.
- Critical management requires to ensure that a critical case will be escalated to an appropriate person/department.
The final set of KPIs is agreed with each customer.
Value Our IT Help Desk Services Bring
Having cooperated with a wide range of customers, we know how to bring value to every business by:
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Increasing customer satisfaction: taking preventive measures and eliminating the root causes of repeated incidents reduce reported issues by ~36% and helps achieve 97+% CSAT. |
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Eliminating staff issues: since you don’t have to hire, onboard, and train help desk specialists in your internal team, you avoid unwanted investments and commitments to save time and money for more relevant business needs. |
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Service desk outsourcing: we can do more than just setting up an efficient incident management process. We know how to provide high-quality services to end users and handle user communication, e.g., announcing planned changes to IT infrastructure components. |
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Improving solution adoption: your product end users are provided with prompt and comprehensive answers to their questions on software usage, which helps them to uncover and realize the full potential of the solution. |
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Optimized help desk costs: thought-out self-service guidance, continuous monitoring, immediate response before issues affect users, and mitigation of root causes reduce reported issues and thus cut expenses. |
What You Get when Outsourcing IT Help Desk to Us
- Regular service level reports.
- Incident reports with root cause analysis.
- Knowledge base articles on various types of typical help desk requests.
- User guides and FAQs.
- Help desk assessments based on user surveys.
Cost Factors of Help Desk Outsourcing
The price of outsourced help desk services depends on various factors, such as:
- Pricing model (per ticket, bucket of hours).
- Number of tickets.
- Help desk levels (L1, L1/L2, L3).
- SLA terms (e.g., response time, first contact resolution).
- Time coverage (e.g., 8/5, 12/5, 24/5, 24/7).
- Help desk team’s size and competencies.
- The team member’s actual workload, e.g., 5 FTE (168h*5), 1 FTE (168h), 0.25 FTE (40h).
Let Us Calculate a Help Desk Price for Your Case
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We will analyze your case and get back to you within a business day to share a ballpark estimate.
In the meantime, would you like to learn more about ScienceSoft?
- 17 years in IT support: check what we do.
- 4,000 successful projects: explore our portfolio.
- 1,300+ incredible clients: read what they say.
Our team always strives to optimize clients' help desk expenses. One way to do it is to spot potential problems before they cause an upsurge in tickets. For example, our engineers use tools for automated infrastructure performance monitoring. Once we see that memory and CPU usage are at their maximum, we immediately rightsize infrastructure resources to ensure users don't experience any performance interruptions.
