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# Customer service

Coveo integrates with CRM and customer service platforms to make customer, product, and operational content searchable and relevant.
By connecting these platforms to Coveo, organizations can surface trusted content in the workflows where their teams already work.

## What Coveo powers in these platforms

CRM and customer service platforms store customer records, cases, knowledge, and other operational content.
Coveo connects to these platforms through a packaged integration, a dedicated source, or a generic source configuration, then indexes the selected content, metadata, and permissions.
Coveo-powered search interfaces, recommendations, and AI-generated answers help users find and use that content while respecting the access rules defined in the original platform.

## Use cases

* Help service teams find customer, case, and knowledge content while assisting customers.

* Help employees find trusted product, account, and operational information without switching between systems.

* Improve customer self-service and agent experiences with relevant recommendations.

* Ground AI-generated answers in permission-aware enterprise content and link back to the original records.

## Typical integration pattern

The exact integration pattern depends on the platform and use case.
A packaged integration or Coveo source retrieves the selected records, content, metadata, and permissions through the platform's APIs and indexes them in Coveo.

A Coveo search interface, Search API integration, or other Coveo content-surfacing option can then return relevant results in the platform's workflows.
Interaction data from these experiences can help improve relevance over time.

Refer to [product-specific articles](#product-specific-articles) when available.

## Product-specific articles

The following platforms have dedicated Coveo integration articles.

- [Salesforce](https://docs.coveo.com/en/q93b0057.md)
- [SAP Service Cloud V2](https://docs.coveo.com/en/q9nc0093.md)
- [ServiceNow](https://docs.coveo.com/en/q93b0067.md)
- [Zendesk](https://docs.coveo.com/en/q93b0086.md)