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Yep, We finally decided to break the ice — The most awaited lightning speed & feature rich helpdesk is on its way of beta release. We anticipate vision 2.0 beta will be released in first week of June 09.

What is Vision 2.0 helpdesk all about?

In a nutshell Vision 2.0 is about High Speed Performance,  Security,  Reliability, Scalability,  Portability and User-Friendliness. Vision 2.0 reflects the state of the art in web based helpdesk solutions. It well derives benefits of latest Web2.0 technology and equip support staff with fast, secure and user-friendly interface. It is extensively designed with PHP Ajax that offers user-experience improvement, decreasing user delay, decrease in bandwidth usage, high speed results and loads of features listed below :

Key Features :

Satellite Helpdesk | Multi-Domain Helpdesk

The well-organized and logically constructed interface allows users to add multiple domains/companies and further easily access and manage them all from one place.

More details –
http://www.thevisionworld.com/true-satellite-helpdesk.html

Robost Mail Parser

Vision includes email parser that gives you power to manage your emails, it gives you option to create corresponding mail queue for each email account. Every new email that user sends in – gets created as a ticket and further staff or user can reply / update the same ticket.

Email Parser supports –

* File attachments
* CC / BCC / Forward option
* Auto responders
* much more ..

Email Parser can be configured in two modes
* Email Piping
* POP3/IMAP/POP3 SSL/IMAP SSL Email Fetching.

AJAX Based Rich User Interface

A major challenge while designing online softwares is the page reload time – for all operations that you do (may be its submitting form or clicking event etc) requires communication between server and reloading the complete page to display the results.

We have used AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to overcome the complete page reloading issue, AJAX is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. AJAX makes your pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This way it increases the web page’s interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.

Paid Support

Vision integrates with leading Billing software WHMCS and allows you to turn your helpdesk to offer paid support to your clients. You can add billing notes, create invoice from helpdesk, track payment status and much more..

Plugin Based

Vision helpdesk is modularized to equip users to enable or disable various features. (example : You can enable or disable scrapbook, alerts, calender, online staff, favorites, anti-virus, address book etc.. ) — This also allows our developers to code several useful plugins and easily plug in to our system rather changing whole code.

Multi-Language

“Multi-language” feature now empowers organizations to extend their business all over the globe by breaking the language barriers. Now you can provide support to your clients in their own language.

This feature mainly includes –

• Clients can change client panel language to one that they understand.
• Clients can send tickets / emails in their own language.
• Your staff has option to select language while replying tickets.

More details — http://www.thevisionworld.com/vision-help-desk-now-breaks-language-barriers.html

Easy Migration Tool

Vision provides with an innovative data migration tool. The migration tool automates the entire migration process and easily imports data from major helpdesks like:

• Kayako Support Suite
• Kayako eSupport
• Cerberus
• WHMCS

The migration tool is an open, user-friendly, and extensible migration process ensuring reliability and data integrity.  Migration of users, tickets/emails, ticket queue’s, ticket status and much more are seamlessly done that save time and efforts.

Inbuilt Antivirus Tool

With increasing online virus threat it becomes very important for any organization to keep its data secure — Vision comes with a robust integrated Antivirus tool to eliminate the possibility of virus through email attachments and also allows you to scan helpdesk files.

Auto Upgrades & Installation

This feature allows you to auto install / upgrade your vision helpdesk versions.
more details — http://www.thevisionworld.com/vision-helpdesk-auto-version-upgrade-tool.html

Google Apps | Google Hosted Emails (POP3 & IMAP SSL)

You can configure google hosted emails with helpdesk.
more details http://www.thevisionworld.com/vision-helpdesk-supports-google-apps.html

Scrap Book & Private Messaging

The module provides instant private communication between members of your organization. Adding to this, it allows staff members to post scraps/updates in the scrap book.

Submit / Reply Tickets Using Your Favorite Email Client

Vision not only allows you to submit / reply / update tickets via online web portal but also from your favourite Email Clients – like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express etc.

Customized Tool Bar

Staff can customize tool bar as per their convenience . The most used features are just a click away with our toolbar.

Service Level Agreements

Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) are fundamental to both providers and recipients of services. For important services, therefore, it is essential that the service level agreement is appropriate

But how can you ensure that this essential component of the legal contract is met while delivering a service? Our system therefore includes a comprehensive presentation, designed to help the service provider to gain a complete insight of each ticket/client to find out if the SLA was maintained.

Report Generation

With the help of rich GUI including charts, figures & table of contents – Vision generates accurate report on runtime for Work summary, Service Level Agreements, Response time, Performance and much more..

The reports include elements such as recommendations, suggestions, or other motivating conclusions that indicate possible future actions the report reader might take.

• Last 7 days staff activity (Matrix Report)
• Monthy Staff Work Activity (Statistics)
• Monthly Staff  Performance (Scale / Point Graph)
• Monthly Staff SLA Record (Pie Chart)
• Annual Ticket Bar Graph Report
• Work Report
• SLA Report
• Response Report
• Performance Report
• Client Tickets and Billing Report

Online Issue Tracking

At this point, with technology as cheap as it is, there’s really no excuse not to have an online issue tracking system. Vision incorporates an online issue tracking system which is relatively easy to use, can be made accessible to all, and can serve as a central depository for all kinds of issues.

Custom Fields

This feature allows you to easily create custom fields / forms as per your business requirements.

Ticket Escalation

With this feature you can configure your helpdesk to auto escalate/move tickets to different departments if the ticket reachs overdue time limit. This is helpful to speed up operations and maintain SLA’s.

Login Integration

Login Integration plug-in allows your users to bypass the login registration process for their support area.

Vision supports the most popular and widely used third-party software packages/applications like:

• ModernBill (v4 and v5)
• vBulletin
• osCommerce
• SM Forum (SMF)
• WHMCS
• WordPress

Through the login integration plug-in with other areas of your business, Vision gives you simplicity with maximum control.

3rd Party Live Chat Integration (CCS | LivePerson | ProvideSupport)

This feature allows you to integrate 3rd party live chat helpdesk in to your client portal. You can easily add live chat
icon on client portal page with this feature.

Configurable Client Portal

We have designed client portal in simple html pages which allows you to easily integrate it with your website design.

Client side quick search facility

It enables your clients to search their email / ticket using single word or phrase that appears in message subject or content.

Useful Tools :  KnowledgeBase | Downloads | Predefined | News | Troubleshoot
Advance Search | Alerts | Filters | Labels | Flags | Address Book | Calender