SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Transcend, the one-stop privacy platform that makes it easy to encode privacy across a company’s tech stack, today announces its integration with Zendesk, the global customer service platform. For many companies, the day-to-day privacy operations of fulfilling data and deletion requests often fall to customer support teams to manually handle inbound tickets, data collection across systems, and customer resolution. The release of this integration eliminates that manual work for companies using Transcend and Zendesk in tandem.
“Our customers now have a far easier way of meeting consumer privacy obligations such as those outlined in Europe’s GDPR, California’s Consumer Privacy Act, and more, in the most efficient way possible — simply by connecting their Zendesk instance directly to Transcend’s privacy automation platform,” said Zendesk’s VP of Technology Alliances Pascal Pettinicchio.
Zendesk customers can now quickly fulfill privacy requests across their entire digital footprint, including all Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and internal databases. Companies can delete personal data across both structured and unstructured data and orchestrate data actions such as access, deletion, opt-out, and more across the billions of emails, support tickets, chat messages, and Help Center comments powered through Zendesk’s platform. Importantly, Transcend’s Zendesk integration allows companies to streamline end-to-end privacy request fulfillment from authenticating the end user to automated data orchestration, including data held in their Zendesk instance.
“Zendesk is leading the internet in bringing powerful, service-first tools for businesses to build trustworthy customer relationships. We’re thrilled to be their partner of choice to help extend that commitment to the delivery of consumers' data rights everywhere, all while providing secure, scalable data privacy processing across technical environments and regulatory requirements,” said Transcend CEO Ben Brook.
“Our customers rely on us to deliver great service to their customers. Transcend’s Zendesk integration now unlocks a frictionless experience for their customer’s access, deletion, or other control of their data, as mandated by a rapidly-increasing number of state and global privacy laws,” said Pettinicchio.
Putting a highly manual process on autopilot
In a typical company reliant on manual processes for completing consumer privacy requests, customer support teams often bear the brunt of processing privacy requests, including logging incoming requests, verifying a person’s identity and eligibility based on state laws, tracking down data across a company’s data stack, and then actioning the request — whether it be deleting data across systems or returning data.
Data discovery is especially difficult with unstructured data, such as free-form customer responses. In this scenario, a simple search or even an SQL query may not be enough to pinpoint the correct data points, creating the need for manual investigation and review.
Transcend’s research finds that companies with even the most minimal request volumes lose on average one week across teams per month with manual processes. Additionally, companies face significant security risks, including the potential for invalid authentication, human errors in data packaging, and failure to fully execute deletion across the entire required tech stack.
Conversely, automated solutions replace manual steps by connecting a customer-facing, self-serve privacy request UI with dispersed company data systems — leaving CX teams with the more manageable task of monitoring the platform and troubleshooting rare, one-off issues.
Learn more about Transcend’s integration with Zendesk at transcend.io/integration/zendesk.
About Transcend
Transcend is the privacy platform that makes it easy to encode privacy across a company’s tech stack for full visibility, auditability, and compliance. Backed by Accel and Index Ventures, the company is the data privacy partner of choice for brands such as Robinhood, Clubhouse, Eventbrite, Hashicorp, and more. Transcend customers go beyond the patchwork compliance and manual offerings of today to realize an easy, efficient, and secure privacy program at scale, with industry-leading technical solutions for the most urgent data mapping, consumer request, and consent management challenges. By future-proofing its technology, Transcend also enables customers to confidently address new or future regulatory requirements, whatever they might be. In addition, Transcend’s privacy platform incorporates standard-setting data protections that security-conscious brands have come to expect, including an on-premise security gateway, E2EE (end-to-end encryption), and more.
Founded in 2017, Transcend is headquartered in San Francisco.
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About Zendesk
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 brands with hundreds of millions of customers over telephone, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites, and help centers. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved. The company was conceived in Copenhagen, Denmark, built and grown in California, taken public in New York City, and today employs more than 5,000 people across the world. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
