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The Death of Disconnected Support: How Thena Unifies B2B Customer Conversations

Govind Kavaturi
Co-founder
October 19, 2024

If you’re a growing business, you’ve probably noticed that customer support has gotten a lot more complicated than just answering a few emails. Today, companies juggle a mix of platforms—Slack, email, in-app chat, and Zoom calls—each with its own set of customer conversations, often happening at the same time. This chaos leaves teams scrambling to track who said what, where, and when.

While tools like Zendesk, Freshdesk, and HubSpot have made ticketing easier, they miss a critical need for B2B companies. When you’re managing Slack and MS Teams channels, handling emails, and dealing with in-app chat, relying on separate systems means you're losing out on the efficiency required to scale effectively. This fragmented approach creates gaps, slowing down your team's ability to deliver fast, consistent support.

This is where Thena steps in. Built for B2B companies that need to scale smartly, Thena’s unified platform brings all your customer interactions into one streamlined hub. No more bouncing between tools or piecing together fragmented conversations. Let’s dive into why that matters and how Thena is redefining what "modern customer support" looks like.

The disconnect: what traditional tools lack

Legacy tools like Zendesk and Freshdesk do what they were built to do: create, track, and manage support tickets. But as businesses evolve, so do their communication needs, and traditional systems haven’t kept up.

Picture this: a customer messages you in Slack, follows up with an email, and later jumps on a Zoom call to troubleshoot a problem. That’s three different touchpoints for one issue. Now multiply that by the number of customers and channels you’re managing. Sound chaotic? It is. These legacy platforms weren’t designed to handle this level of complexity, especially for B2B companies that work with large, multi-departmental clients.

The result? Fragmented communication, siloed information, and slower response times—all of which can frustrate customers and damage relationships. Zendesk and its competitors work well if you’re only handling tickets in one or two channels. But when your customers are reaching out through a dozen different platforms, things quickly fall apart.

Thena fills this gap by centralizing all communications, regardless of the platform. Whether it’s Slack, email, Zoom, or chat, everything funnels into one system, making it easier for support teams to stay on top of requests and manage them efficiently.

Thena’s secret sauce: AI-powered support, done right

One of the biggest ways Thena stands out is its use of AI to transform customer support from reactive to proactive. AI customer service tools usually focus on automating basic, repetitive tasks—think ticket routing or basic chat responses. While that’s helpful, Thena takes things further.

Here’s what AI can do when it’s built into the core of your customer support strategy:

  • Predictive support: Thena analyzes past interactions to spot patterns, helping your team anticipate when a customer might face a problem. Before they even realize something’s wrong, you’re already on it.
  • Sentiment analysis: Thena’s AI gauges the tone of conversations in real time, flagging when things are heating up. This ensures that your team can jump in and de-escalate situations before they spiral.
  • Smart ticket prioritization: AI automatically categorizes and prioritizes tickets based on urgency and content, routing them to the right team. This speeds up response times and makes sure nothing gets overlooked.

Rather than just automating the easy stuff, Thena’s AI actually enhances your team’s ability to manage complex issues. By offloading repetitive tasks and offering real-time insights, AI becomes a strategic asset, empowering your team to focus on what they do best—solving real problems.

Why unified communication is essential for B2B support

For B2B businesses, delivering top-notch customer support isn’t just about keeping customers happy—it’s about protecting relationships and revenue. The stakes are much higher in the B2B space because the contracts are larger, the relationships longer-term, and the problems often more complex. A single unresolved issue could mean losing a multi-million-dollar deal or damaging a long-standing partnership.

This makes unified communication essential.

Consider this: if your customer reaches out through Slack, emails your team for follow-up questions, and ends up on a Zoom call, that’s multiple channels to manage. Worse, if one part of your support team doesn’t know what happened in another channel, things get messy fast.

This siloed communication is the Achilles' heel of B2B customer support. You need visibility into every customer interaction across all channels to ensure nothing slips through the cracks. Thena solves this by bringing everything together in one place, making it easy to turn a Zoom call into a ticket or respond to a Slack message without having to jump between tools. With Thena, every interaction becomes part of a seamless support process.

Modern B2B support requires more than just tickets

B2B customer support is different. It’s not just about logging tickets or answering simple questions—it’s about maintaining high-touch relationships with clients who expect fast, knowledgeable responses. And in the B2B world, where every customer could be a Fortune 500 company, providing world-class support can make or break a contract.

This is where traditional tools fall short. They treat every ticket as an isolated event, focusing more on managing workflows than on managing relationships. But in a B2B environment, where support requests often involve multiple teams and departments, you need a solution that can do more.

Thena does more than just manage tickets. It provides a complete view of the customer, aggregating every interaction across every platform into one unified thread. This way, support teams always have the context they need to provide faster, smarter responses.

And with AI-driven insights, your team can prioritize critical issues, automate repetitive tasks, and even predict future problems—all while maintaining a personal touch.

Thena: built for the future of customer support

Customer support is evolving, and the future is driven by AI and multi-channel communication. As companies scale, they need a platform that doesn’t just help them manage more tickets but actually improves the quality of their support.

Thena isn’t just another ticketing tool. It’s a platform built for the future—where AI-powered support enhances human expertise and where unified communication breaks down silos, creating a seamless experience for both customers and support teams.

The reality is, legacy tools like Zendesk and Freshdesk simply weren’t designed to meet the demands of today’s B2B businesses. They’re good at handling basic tickets but don’t offer the flexibility, intelligence, or modern approach that companies need to scale their support operations effectively.

Thena fills that gap with an all-in-one solution that merges every channel, integrates AI at every level, and is purpose-built for B2B companies. With Thena, your support team can finally keep up with the complexity of modern customer relationships—and even get ahead of it.

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