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Mastering Zendesk

By : Cedric F. Jacob
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Mastering Zendesk

By: Cedric F. Jacob

Overview of this book

Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service solution that is widely used because it is easy, efficienct, flexible, and low cost. It is highly scalable and is great for organizations of all sizes. If you’re a Zendesk administrator and are looking to explore advanced-level concepts, then this book is for you. It covers the core functionalities such as managing users, groups, and the organization, and creating and adding custom fields. You will learn how to add customized ticket channels to your account. Then, you will focus on customizing business rules and extending Zendesk with JIRA and Salesforce. Towards the end, the book emphasizes security and troubleshooting aspects as well as providing tips and tricks to create a more efficient support environment. By the end of this book, you will be able to turn a basic Zendesk setup into a highly customized working environment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Zendesk
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 6. Integrating and Extending Zendesk

While Zendesk is a powerful tool for responding to customer enquiries, most likely, it will become a part of a larger eco-system. In order to make the most of our Zendesk environment, we need to integrate Zendesk into our existing systems and extend its capabilities when needed.

Luckily for us, Zendesk allows us to do both of those things.

In this chapter, we will discover Zendesk's extending capabilities by looking at two of the most common integrations – JIRA and Salesforce. Before going into details, we will cover a few more Zendesk basics, including Zendesk apps.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • The Zendesk apps

  • Commonly used Zendesk apps from the Marketplace

  • Using custom apps to extend Zendesk's capabilities

  • Integrating JIRA

  • Integrating Salesforce