Information about Live Support Software
Live Support Software is a popular term for instant messaging applications designed specifically to provide online assistance to users of a web site. The software enables the administrator or webmaster of a web site to receive and respond to text communication from multiple users of the web site.
From a list of live support software (applications), there are some that use JavaScript, Java or Flash Player to run directly inside the browser. These online applications differ from classic software mostly because Website visitors don't have to install anything on their PC's and they can communicate freely with website's online agents. There are also live support software that goes beyond basic text chat, and offer such advanced communication capabilities as true VoIP (Voice over IP), application sharing, remote view and remote form filling.
The majority of live support applications open in a window and connect the user to a member of "call centre" staff. The more advanced scripts allow the users to be queued, so that one member of staff can deal with a customer and then automatically move on to the next customer. The customer's position in the queue is sometimes displayed.
Live support applications are typically written using PHP and possible a backend database such as MySql. This is due to the fact that PHP and MySql are open source and effectively free. Making it highly probable that a companies webserver will have the capability to run PHP scripts. As stated before a wide variety of techniques are used to create the display which the user receives.
From a list of live support software (applications), there are some that use JavaScript, Java or Flash Player to run directly inside the browser. These online applications differ from classic software mostly because Website visitors don't have to install anything on their PC's and they can communicate freely with website's online agents. There are also live support software that goes beyond basic text chat, and offer such advanced communication capabilities as true VoIP (Voice over IP), application sharing, remote view and remote form filling.
The majority of live support applications open in a window and connect the user to a member of "call centre" staff. The more advanced scripts allow the users to be queued, so that one member of staff can deal with a customer and then automatically move on to the next customer. The customer's position in the queue is sometimes displayed.
Live support applications are typically written using PHP and possible a backend database such as MySql. This is due to the fact that PHP and MySql are open source and effectively free. Making it highly probable that a companies webserver will have the capability to run PHP scripts. As stated before a wide variety of techniques are used to create the display which the user receives.
See also
Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.
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Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.
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PHP
Paradigm: imperative, object-oriented
Appeared in: 1995
Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Developer: The PHP Group
Latest release: 5.2.4/ 30 August 2007
Typing discipline: Dynamic, weak (duck typing)
Influenced by: C, Perl
Java, C++, Python
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Paradigm: imperative, object-oriented
Appeared in: 1995
Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Developer: The PHP Group
Latest release: 5.2.4/ 30 August 2007
Typing discipline: Dynamic, weak (duck typing)
Influenced by: C, Perl
Java, C++, Python
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MySQL (pronounced (IPA) /mɑɪ ɛs kjuː ɛl/, "my S-Q-L"[1]) is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS)[2]
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PHP
Paradigm: imperative, object-oriented
Appeared in: 1995
Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Developer: The PHP Group
Latest release: 5.2.4/ 30 August 2007
Typing discipline: Dynamic, weak (duck typing)
Influenced by: C, Perl
Java, C++, Python
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Paradigm: imperative, object-oriented
Appeared in: 1995
Designed by: Rasmus Lerdorf
Developer: The PHP Group
Latest release: 5.2.4/ 30 August 2007
Typing discipline: Dynamic, weak (duck typing)
Influenced by: C, Perl
Java, C++, Python
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MySQL (pronounced (IPA) /mɑɪ ɛs kjuː ɛl/, "my S-Q-L"[1]) is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS)[2]
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Hosted Chat or "Chat As Service" is an ASP (Application Service Provider) model text chat service that boasts capabilities such as having multiple instances of a chat with different configurations being distributed among websites, blogs, discussion groups, and virtually every other
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