TomTom automates customer feedback

01.11.2006
GPS navigation provider TomTom has based its entire customer facing feedback portal on the RightNow Service module to offer 24x7 customer feedback globally.

TomTom currently uses the RightNow Service module in its operations in Europe and the United States. Since opening an office in Australia in June 2005, TomTom discovered no one knew what GPS products exactly did and as a result the company had to partially automate a way to answer specific customer questions.

Roy van Keulen, TomTom support general manager, said the software was deployed to collate all questions asked by the general public into one global knowledge base daily and publish all questions and answers in each specific market.

Tomtom currently has eight people in Australia. According to Van Keulen this system has introduced an affordable way to both utilize time better for TomTom staff globally and ensure a quick turnaround of customer questions and requests.

"Tomtom came from a PDA, kind of a nerdy market to a different segment (mobile GPS) and a lot of people had educational questions about the company so we needed help with the self-assurance aspect of our Web site to work through the extra questions we received and first rolled out RightNow in Europe, then the U.S. and later Australia," Van Keulen said.

"How we deployed RightNow is all questions from customers put to us are placed in one knowledge base and on a daily basis we look to publish all questions and answers we think are relevant to a specific market and this is all very customer driven; people often recognize their questions on the Web sites.