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Note that “SAP HANA Cloud Platform, Portal Service” is rebranded to SAP Cloud Platform Portal in March 2017.

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You all know this situation. You buy a new product or a service, you are really excited to use it and hmm… you need some support on this.

So, you look for the phone of the support, you dial in, and then you need to press 6 to go to the department and 2 if you want to hear about the opening hours and then 9 if you actually want to talk to a representative. By this time you probably already spend a few minutes just navigating the support system only to get some music and a nice voice telling you: “We are happy for your call, we are currently handling other customers, please hold for a representative to get your call”. So you wait, and you wait and you wait.

And finally someone answers, but guess what? Bill the representative is not really sure what the problem is, so he asks you to check this and check that and if there is a good ending to the story he manage to fix your issue, if not, he will call you back after he checks with some experts… by now you have wasted quite some time on getting the support you needed, not to mention the frustration.

 



But does it have to be this way?

What if instead you would navigate to the support site, where you can search for a known fix for your issue, consult with experts, or in case you can’t find the information on your own, open a ticket and receive the resolution on your own time without having to wait on the phone.

The service level and support we expect on products and services we consume today is much higher than in the past. We want effective, preferably self-service that will provide us with the support we need in a delightful experience.

Do you want to provide such experience for your customers to gain high customer satisfaction and retention?

On behalf of the HCP Portal Team, we are happy to bring you the new Support Site Accelerator to help you get started with building a support site rich with capabilities and with a delightful experience. The solution is integrated with the SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer (C4C) to provide you with a kick-starter to implement your solution.

 

 

About three years ago we introduced the previous Support Site solution. The adoption was great and we listened to your feedback. Instead of a set of existing widgets which were challenging to customize, The new Support Site Accelerator brings you an open, customizable solution aligned with SAPUI5 and OData to enable you to create the best solution fitted for your needs. The support for mobile experience is improved, there is an improved support for Theming, the experience of the administrator has more capabilities and - The site templates can be edited in SAP Web IDE and then be reused to create the support site by the administrator.

We’ve also out-sourced the solution (Yes!) to allow you to modify it and tailor it to your own needs.

 



 

So what does it include?

  1. Ticket handling – You can create new tickets, edit them, and interact with your customers on them, including the ability to add attachments.

  2. Dashboard – the dashboard contains tiles that reflect your ticket status, this way you can see the status at every moment and make sure that high priority tickets are handled with higher attention.

  3. Sample Jam integration (Jam Feed and Search) – you can embed your Jam content to provide more information for your customers with interactive support and forum with basic Jam content consumption

  4. Freestyle pages with different widgets – you can enrich your site with additional pages and capabilities.


The support site accelerator allows you to easily create a new site and customize it for your own needs.

 

So how do I get started?

The Support Site is provided as an accelerator code enabling you a to create your own solution. You can download the code from GitHub, follow the instructions in the Readme file and you will be up and running in no time.

 

So why is it good?

End User

Your end user will receive a Self-service delightful experience that can run on desktop and mobile including a dashboard based on Fiori Launchpad to manage the tickets.

 

Administrator

Your administrator will be able to easily create and maintain the support site by using templates to create it. In addition it’s easy to create Theme integration.

 

Developer

Your developer can get easily started by downloading the code from GitHub, uploading it to SAP Web IDE SAP Web IDE and quickly customize the solution to your needs by using SAPUI5 and oData capabilities.

 

We will be happy to hear what you think,

Rachel

 

Useful links:

SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer: http://go.sap.com/solution/lob/service.html

GitHub: https://github.com/SAP/hcp-portal-service-for-support-site/


Cloud portal on SCN: http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-cloud-portal


SAP HANA Cloud Platform, Portal Service: https://help.hana.ondemand.com/cloud_portal/frameset.htm


We have now published a movie to help you with configuring your support site:


 

https://youtu.be/JIDIabS5shs

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