July 2001                                                                                                

 

In This Issue:

From the President's Desk

Knowledge Management Systems -- are they for you?

Improving customer satisfaction with Soffront's e-Call Center

Soffront offers new, advanced TRACKWeb® training courses

TRACK / TRACKWeb Q&A

From the President’s Desk

To measure customer satisfaction and to better communicate with our customers, we recently conducted a customer satisfaction survey. Thank you to everyone who participated!

We appreciate your positive feedback, and we also realize that there are areas in which we can improve. In response to your comments, we have created a customer satisfaction task force, who will work closely with you to help resolve the issues you noted in the survey.

Our goal is to bring you the best customer service possible. If you did not get a chance to speak your mind during the survey, we’d like to invite you to send us your feedback via our web site. Top5


Knowledge Management Systems – are they for you?

In a recent poll by eWeek, 19.1% of respondents listed knowledge management products as their top purchasing priority, second only to security solutions. Why are knowledge management systems gaining such popularity? It’s simple -- because knowledge management offers great benefits to organizations. KMS empowers your customers to help themselves! The end result? Happier customer with lower cost! For example, implementing Soffront’s knowledge management application – TRACKWeb KMS - allows you to: 

  • Reduce Call Length
  • Reduce Operational Costs
  • Enhance Customer Satisfaction
  • Minimize Escalation of Issues
  • Enhance Response Consistency
  • Reduce Training Costs
  • Reduce Call Volume
  • Eliminate Duplicate Efforts
  • Capture Tacit Knowledge
  • Ready Customer Acceptability
  • Enhance Sales
  • Improve Product Quality and Related Documentation

Soffront’s knowledge management application – TRACKWeb KMS - offers you leading-edge technology and features that are designed to positively effect your bottom-line and improve customer satisfaction. In response to customer suggestions and to further enhance the system, we recently added some new features to our product.

 With a single search, you can now search the entire contents of a knowledge document, including its attached documents. This allows you to expand your search far beyond the title and assigned keywords.

 We have also added multilingual capability in our product. Currently we support English and French, but in the future we plan to support several major world languages.  If you’re interested in implementing our knowledge management system for your multilingual website or for a worldwide workforce, let us know and we will work with you to make your project successful.

 Why not implement such a system in your company and harvest these benefits? For more information click here or call your Soffront representative. Top5


Improving customer satisfaction with Soffront’s e-Call Center

Soffront recently announced the availability of our hosted call center solution – e-Call Center. This web-based solution unifies all customer contact options including email, phone call, web call, voice mail, fax, and agent-led browsing into a single integrated IP-based system that is cost effective and easy to implement.

There are several benefits to installing and using e-Call Center: 

  • Reduce support costs and improve customer support
  • Integrate web-based self-help and personal service into a single cost effective solution
  • Easily establish and manage a distributed call center around the world
  • Fully meet customers’ demands for real-time personal service
  • Capture web site visitors and convert them into customers
  • Implement a fully scalable and complete communications solution without spending a lot of money
  • Manage all customer touch points using a single system
  • Fully utilize all possible communication means for up selling and cross selling

Click here for more information. Top5

Soffront offers new, advanced TRACKWeb® training courses

Are you a TRACKWeb Administrator, Web Developer / Webmaster, or Database Administrator interested in learning more about SQL (Structured Query Language) for SQL Server and Oracle? Learning and integrating the TRACKWeb Object Model? Creating web applications using VBScript and JavaScript?

Soffront is offering 3 brand new training courses geared toward you!

  • Soffront #200, TRACKWeb Object Model
     

  • Soffront #201, Scripting Technologies: VBScript/JavaScript
     

  • Soffront #202, Mastering TRACKWeb Objects with SQL Server/Oracle

These courses use both lecture and hands-on exercises to detail the TRACKWeb Object Model and the current scripting technologies: VBScript and JavaScript, and help you to master SQL Server and Oracle database applications using VBScript/ASP, JavaScript and TRACKWeb Object Model.

The class is located at our headquarters in Fremont, CA. It runs 3-days and costs $1500.00. For more information, or to enroll in our August class, please contact us at training@soffront.com. Top5


TRACK / TRACKWeb Q&A

Following the publication of our last newsletter, several of our customers suggested that we include a Q&A section to address common customer questions. We thank those who suggested this idea! This edition will focus on upgrade issues.

Question: User List fields become empty after upgrading to version 6.0.1.1

Solution:  We have added a new Project Privilege feature in version 6.0.1.1, Only users from user groups with privileges to access the project appear in the User List fields. To assign project access privileges to user groups, you need to open Project Manager (File à Form Layout to edit the User List field definition. Next click the Privilege button, make sure all applicable user groups are selected, and click OK.

Question: Script Builder does not display a warning message when saving a script that is entered incorrectly (wrong syntax).  It gives the impression that it has saved the script, but it does not. 

Solution: Incompatible Msscript.ocx and VbScript.dll files cause the problem. In order for Script Builder to work properly, you need to replace these two files in the Win\System directory. Call Soffront Technical Support for the correct Msscript.ocx and VbScript.dll files.

Question: What is the proper method to upgrade TRACK / TRACKWeb?

Solution: To upgrade TrackWeb you must first uninstall the existing application and then follow these procedures to achieve a clean installation:

  • Run Control Panel à Add/Remove Program to uninstall the previous TRACKWeb installation.
     

  • Run Control Panel à Services and stop both the IIS Admin and World Wide Web Publishing services.
     

  • Run Internet Service Manager.
     

  • Expand the Default Web Site, then find and delete the 3 following virtual directories: TrackWeb and twAttach, and twVermgr.
     

  • Save your changes before exiting Internet Service Manager.
     

  • From Windows Explorer, expand the Inetpub directory, then find and delete the TrackWeb subdirectory. 
     

  • Expand the Win\System directory, then find and rename these 2 files: Track.dll and twUtility.dll 
     

  • Install the TRACK / TRACKWeb upgrade. Top5

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