Limited in-house tooling
The existing system lacked the robustness needed for incident response.

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10 US offices: SLAM operates as a multidisciplinary architecture and design firm with a national presence. 300 employees: The service operation supports a distributed team across the firm. IT support: The team manages incidents, requests, and shared technical knowledge.
The existing system lacked the robustness needed for incident response.
Customers and IT staff needed a dependable shared knowledge base.
The team wanted automation for recurring service requests.
Support needed to work across email, phone, and Microsoft Teams.
After evaluating five competing solutions, SLAM chose HappyFox for its intuitive queues, priorities, statuses, knowledge base, and service catalog.
Email, phone, and Microsoft Teams became part of one service workflow.
Smart Rules and canned actions reduced repetitive response work.
Knowledge-base articles supported agents and requesters.
SLAM reports that the team was operating in HappyFox within hours.
The new workflow improved how quickly incidents could be handled.
Historical answers became easier to reuse for new issues.
The system supported 5,000 annual requests across ten offices, with the majority of tickets resolved autonomously.
The system seldom required a support call, and the HappyFox team responded quickly when help was needed.
“HappyFox brought a level of sophistication to our IT support system that was previously unimaginable. The comprehensive knowledge base, dynamic intake forms, seamless integration with Microsoft Teams, and robust service desk features have not only streamlined our operations but also significantly enhanced our response capabilities. These tools have allowed us to automate responses, efficiently organize tickets, and leverage historical data to quickly resolve new issues, setting a new standard for excellence in IT support.”