The Customer Support Podcast

Episode 24: (B2B) Abhay Solapurkar, VP Global Success & Support, SkyHigh Networks (McAfee)


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  • SkyHigh Networks (Acquired by McAfee) is a CASB vendor serving roughly 600 customers (Fortune 1000 and enterprises)
  • Tierless support organization
  • Roughly 70 engineers worldwide organized in  pods of technology excellence. Overall McAfee has 800+ Tech Support professionals
  • Support team sits with engineering and cloud ops
  • Customer Success Managers do consultative work (not comped on renewal) 
  • Big shift in Support has come due to  “Cloudification” 
  • Important to focus on overall customer experience rather than on an individual metric like first response time etc. 
  • Robust certification process for new employees
  • Technology stack - Consolidated with Salesforce, Financial force (professional services), tight integration with JIRA, Inquira (Knowledge Management), Exploring Chatbots (Aisera - doing pilot on consumer side for how-to cases).
  • Support app for customers
  • Incoming cases - 98% (email and web), 2% (phone)
  • How-to/Break-Fix Split - For on-prem (30/70), cloud (10/90)
  • Recommended Read - Good to Great by Jim Collins
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