January 26, 2009 - (Free Research) One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions.
May 15, 2012 - (Free Research) This comprehensive white paper discusses the future of contact centers. From tools to strategy this paper covers all you need to know about ensuring that your customer service stays up to date.
September 15, 2011 - (Free Research) If your organization isn't on the cloud yet when it comes to customer service, then you may be severely disadvantaged. Competition for customer service is increasing and your company needs all the latest tools to stay ahead of the game. Read this white paper to learn how four contact centers adopted agile cloud-based computing technologies.
March 20, 2012 - (Free Research) This case study examines a food services company that needed to find a more efficient way to keep track of and manage food and laundry inventories, address customer concerns in the call center, automate processes, and manage tax calculation processes. Continue reading to discover the software they used to effectively meet their business needs.
January 20, 2012 - (Free Research) This video explains how you can combine interactive voice response (IVR) and ACD systems into one that tracks calls, call waits and offers "self-service" options for callers with a long wait. Watch this now to see a detailed overview of this all-in-one system that will save your organization money.
January 10, 2011 - (Free Research) Supported by insights from Peppers & Rogers Group and inContact, this white paper will explore the benefits of applying the right mix of self-service and agent-assisted support to meet customer expectations effectively and maximize business outcomes.
Cisco 1700 Series modular routers are ideal for enterprise small branch offices and small and medium-sized businesses that need secure access to business applications, network resources, and Internet services. The Cisco 1700 Series delivers fast, reliable and secure Internet/network access through a wide-range of high-speed WAN access technologies.
March 20, 2012 - (Free Research) In this third edition of the Customer Experience Exchange e-zine, Chris Maxcer delves into world of incorporating team-building activities into contact center agents' schedules, Vangie Beal discusses Dell's six-year investment in social media and Anna Fiorentino writes about why customer loyalty has dipped nearly 10%.
November 08, 2011 - (Free Research) Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand.
November 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Juniper Research defines a mobile ticketing user as “someone who stores a ticket on their mobile phone for later redemption” at the point of travel, the music venue, the cinema etc.
January 10, 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the ways in which organizations are striving to maintain excellent customer service for all types of clients while at the same time controlling support costs. Read this white paper to learn more.
iTest Team is an integrated test environment for developers, testers, and automation teams. It offers a unified approach for rapidly developing, automating, and maintaining test cases. iTest Team tests complex equipment and systems that are accessed through various protocols, such as command line interfaces, Web interfaces, SNMP, or command shells.
March 01, 2011 - (Free Research) Learn how HP Operations Orchestration helps reduce operational costs and improve service quality by automating routine IT tasks, such as repetitive maintenance, change provisioning and incident resolution.
December 01, 2011 - (Free Research) This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs.
April 25, 2011 - (Free Research) By simplifying and automating deployment, retargeting and provisioning workloads, and managing processes for virtualized systems, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture empowers end users to access resources when they need them. Continue reading to learn more.
March 2006 - (Free Research) As VoIP usage becomes widespread, enterprise users will become subject to many of the same security risks that have affected data networks. This report highlights some of the potential security problems associated with VoIP and address what measures can be taken to secure enterprise VoIP deployments.
March 2011 - (Free Research) Virtualisation and cloud computing are causing many organisations to take a second look at their existing management processes. This product brief discusses how one management platform distinguishes itself in a highly competitive market and reveals exclusive results from recent research on this topic.
February 2012 - (Free Research) Check out these best practices to get the most out of your tape backups. Discover keys to help you define your needs and ensure future success by establishing regular testing of recovery procedures. Also included is a breakdown of tape's lifecycle to help you better understand the backup process, and tips for proper tape handling and transport.
April 2012 - (Free Research) <p>Your talent management strategy can make or break the success of your organization, but this can be a challenging task if you’re a SMB that still collects documentation manually. Read this white paper to learn how to automate your paper-based procedures to improve your talent management life cycle.</p>
April 2011 - (Free Research) Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. Both would be easier and cheaper to achieve with a common infrastructure, in what we call an identity and context service. In this paper, we’ll address how such a shared service can serve these two very different IT initiatives.
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