Fin by Intercom vs. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service

It's great for a web-enabled tool, so there is immediate ability to give feedback or ask questions. It isn't as easy to set up a desktop application as it would require more coding experience. Some older users are skeptical of its abilities, and that it is taking away from customer service, but in our use, it enhances it - that is a tough barrier to breach.

With the constant changes included in the product, we can now use it for all the customer service scenarios / channels, for e.g. earlier for voice, we had to buy 3rd party CTI based tools, but now Voice Channel being available as the part of the product, that solves that thing. Also we see constantly new AI-driven features added to the product that could save lot of time of the agents while working on the cases like case summary, automate email generation, sentiment analysis etc.

• Answering simply queries that can be gotten from information in our help articles - powering self-serve for our customers.
• Helping us triage and analyse customer queries by understanding key custom attributed of a conversation and key data points to help us route customers to the right team.
• Through automation, helping our teammate be more quick and efficient in resolution times and SLAs.

Incentivized

• Dynamic CS allows you to access a wider customer base and gain artificial intelligence-powered insights into numerous client interaction activities.
• It assists in gaining deep insights into numerous data analyses performed on various customer interaction activities, as well as data visualization and customer satisfaction enhancement.
• This product has been extremely beneficial to my firm since it allows us to communicate with customers via a variety of channels, including e-mail and social media.
• Extensible, and Microsoft responds rapidly to market demand with new features. In terms of service, both Microsoft customer success and technical teams collaborate closely to ensure appropriate delivery.
• A better way to track client interactions is SaaS-based cloud services. This software may also be linked to outlook.

Incentivized

• If I can see that our Fin involvement/resolution rate has increased in one week, it would be great to see the theme of conversations it's resolving, rather than having to dig around to see why there was an increase.
• Sometimes the hand-over functionality doesn't work as well as it could, and often Fin errs on the side of resolving the conversation (which I understand because we're charged per resolution), but this can be frustrating to have to sift through and dig these customers back out.

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• It occasionally crashes or slow down, but it usually works great.
• Costly.

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We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.

Incentivized

The usability of Fin by Intercom is intuitive and easy to use. When I used it for the first time, it didn’t take me long to understand how the platform works and how to set things up. It also provided helpful guidance, and there is a Fin bot that you can use to learn more about the platform and ask questions.

Incentivized

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is generally very user-friendly, especially for those familiar with Microsoft products. The strength of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service is its integration with Outlook and Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel etc. and it user interface being similar to those products. This makes it easy for user to adopt to any new app.

always there

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works perfect

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Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.

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Easy to know the learning path

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The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.

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Fin definitely stacks up pretty much at the same level when it comes to leveraging the input data KB to address customer queries. However reporting flexibility is something missing compared to the two mentioned platforms. The categorization of issues is much easier and accurate making it further analysis less time intensive. Why we selected Finis a difficult question for me to answer as the above platforms are from my previous company and when I moved to my current role Fin was already in place.

Incentivized

Incentivized

• We've achieved around a 50% resolution rate (and growing) with Fin by Intercom
• Our customers have a near instant response time when chatting with Fin by Intercom
• We've been able to use Fin by Intercom for a 100% AI driven approach for a subset of our users

Incentivized

• It has help us serve our customers better and get Support Contracts from them after we have designed / developed and deployed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service based solutions for them
• Ease of Routing it to appropriate customer support agent
• Because of multiple channel support we now give our customers option to raise a ticket or connect with their preferred communication medium, be it email, SMS, Chat etc.