Citrix GoToAssist Integrates With Salesforce.com

Service and support agents will be able to launch Citrx remote support utility from within Salesforce Service Cloud, log support sessions.

David F Carr, Editor, InformationWeek Government/Healthcare

August 31, 2011

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Citrix Online is making its GoToAssist remote support service available as a plugin to the Salesforce.com Service Cloud.

Announced Wednesday at Salesforce's Dreamforce user conference, the integration allows service and support agents to launch a GoToAssist session from within the Service Cloud user interface and initiate a screen-sharing session with the customer's PC or Mac. Customers join the session by either clicking on a link, or going to a website where they enter a code supplied by the agent, and downloading a plugin.

Technical support issues can then be resolved using remote diagnostics, remote control, and other tools, while the agent and customer communicate over the phone or through text chat. Once the support session has ended, the GoToAssist session details such as agent notes, chat transcripts, and PC diagnostic data are stored in the Salesforce case record.

The GoToAssist integration app is available in the Salesforce.com AppExchange. It is free with a GoToAssist subscription, which is $69 per month or $660 per year for up to eight simultaneous sessions.

Citrix senior product marketing manager Jackie Murphy said the increased acceptance of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model popularized by Salesforce is driving the need for support of those SaaS applications--which works best if the remote support is also delivered in a SaaS mode.

"Citrix Online has always been a software-as-a-service model," she said. "This is no longer just the early adopters out there. This is becoming accepted by IT."

Citrix Online is the SaaS division of Citrix, built on the 2003 acquisition of Expertcity, and is best known for its online meetings product GoToMeeting and desktop remote access utility GoToMyPC. Murphy said Citrix Online is itself a Salesforce customer, although parent company Citrix also uses other customer relationship management systems.

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About the Author

David F Carr

Editor, InformationWeek Government/Healthcare

David F. Carr oversees InformationWeek's coverage of government and healthcare IT. He previously led coverage of social business and education technologies and continues to contribute in those areas. He is the editor of Social Collaboration for Dummies (Wiley, Oct. 2013) and was the social business track chair for UBM's E2 conference in 2012 and 2013. He is a frequent speaker and panel moderator at industry events. David is a former Technology Editor of Baseline Magazine and Internet World magazine and has freelanced for publications including CIO Magazine, CIO Insight, and Defense Systems. He has also worked as a web consultant and is the author of several WordPress plugins, including Facebook Tab Manager and RSVPMaker. David works from a home office in Coral Springs, Florida. Contact him at [email protected]and follow him at @davidfcarr.

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