<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Greetings - I'm looking into options for a ticketing system for our helpdesk, and would very much appreciate any input.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Our call center gets around 3500 calls per week (increasing around 10% per month). Today, we're using a very thrown-together system that made sense when we had 100 calls a day, but doesn't any more. I'm looking into which tool to implement, and hope to have something in place by July or August.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Can anyone share with me their reasons for selecting RT, as opposed to say OTRS, or Remedy, or any of the dozens of commercial options? The managers here are open to open-source (for the right reasons even, not just the cost reason), which makes my life much easier when it comes to this sort of a project. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The biggies we're looking for aside from the normal email handling/escalation/reporting stuff would be some way to tie in a knowledge-base to the customer, so when they open a ticket, they select what their problem is, and are offered a list of possible fixes. The goal there is to help them right away, and to reduce call volume. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on how and why RT is the right solution, if what I've described above makes sense for RT.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'd also like suggestions on how to scale my hardware for a, let's say, 10000 call/week volume. How "heavy" is this application? Does it scale well to that volume?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dave Hinz</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Unix Systems Architect</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">eMagic.com, LLC</font>
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