Overview of Dynamics 365 for Customer Service April '19 release

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Dynamics 365 for Customer Service aims to enable businesses to differentiate themselves from their competition by providing world-class customer experiences. Customers today value the ease and speed of resolution and they want to receive service on their preferred channel of engagement, at any time, and on any device. We are enabling these capabilities by building an intelligent omnichannel customer experience and an empowered agent experience.

A true omnichannel experience in the product will preserve context and provide a continuous experience as customers seamlessly switch across self-service, peer-to-peer service, and assisted-service channels. An empowered agent experience will provide an application experience that is unified across channels and line of business (LOB) applications, is contextual to the engagement, and comes with productivity tools to resolve issues faster.

Themes for Customer Service April '19 release

  • Channels: In line with our goal to provide increased channel flexibility to customers, we will provide Chat as a channel for customers to seek real-time support. We will also enable SMS support for customers to receive automatic notifications and engage with support agents at their own pace.

  • Agent experience: In the October '18 release, we released the Omnichannel for Customer Service for preview. Omnichannel for Customer Service is a customizable, high-productivity app built on Unified Service Desk for agents working on multiple channels. In the April '19 release, we will make this generally available. In addition, we will offer a browser-based multi-session, multi-app agent experience built on the Unified Interface framework.

    Case management is a cornerstone capability in customer service. We will rework key experiences to improve usability and productivity.

  • Knowledge management: We will make key enhancements to the knowledge base (KB) authoring experience. KB admins can create KB templates for common scenarios like FAQs, how-to articles, and so on. KB authors can leverage these templates to quickly create standardized KB articles.