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Streamline Your Storage Usage: 4 Straightforward Ways To True NAS Management by Northern Parklife February 12, 2009 - (Free Research) In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

SAS/Access to Salesforce for Superior ODBC Integration with SAS by Progress DataDirect May 31, 2012 - (Free Research) In this tutorial, learn how you can use a Salesforce Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) Driver in conjunction with SAS/Access interface for ODBC in order to enable flexible data integration, easier data access, faster performance, and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Contact Center Consolidation by CosmoCom, Inc. July 2008 - (Free Research) Improving access to contact center resources is more challenging when agents are distributed across multiple locations. View this webcast for insight into Contact Center Consolidation.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

VW Credit, Inc. by Aspect March 2008 - (Free Research) Implementing Aspect eWorkforce Management and its Perform enhancement enabled VCI to optimize its agent performance by allowing better forecasting and more accurate planning, as well as more effective scheduling.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Overhauling a Legacy Contact Center: Starting Steps by Five9 May 2013 - (Free Research) Overhauling legacy contact center technology is often costly and time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. This expert e-guide offers advice on deciding when it's time to upgrade your contact center, making the business case for an overhaul, and important change management considerations.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Windows Essential Business Server 2008: Deploying Windows Mobile 6 with Windows Essential Business Server 2008 by Microsoft December 2008 - (Free Research) This document provides step-by-step instructions for deploying devices powered with Windows Mobile 6 in an IT infrastructure that is based on the Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (Windows EBS 2008) server solution.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Aberdeen Agent Desktop Optimization: Agents Can Finally Focus on the Customer whitepaper by SAP America, Inc. October 2012 - (Free Research) In the context of the contact center, being able to provide agents with insights needed to support and engage customers is critical to deliver a positive customer experience. And agent desktop optimization (ADO) initiatives help contact centers accomplish this objective by empowering agents. Continue on for insights.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Contact Center Security in the Cloud: Questions to Ask & Answers to Expect by LiveOps October 2011 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn what should be addressed when moving your contact center to the cloud including important security risks.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Premise vs. Hosted Contact Center: Total Cost of Ownership Analysis by inContact May 2011 - (Free Research) Today, the majority of North American contact centers today are supported by premise-based contact center and telephony systems. But there's another money-saving option for contact centers: third-party owned and operated hosted services. Before you decide which model to use, there's another factor you should consider: Total cost of ownership (TCO).  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

5 Ways to Optimize Your Workforce for Customer Contact in a Social Marketplace by Aspect August 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses how workforce, quality and performance management capabilities provide practical business processes and tools for effective staffing, monitoring, reporting, evaluation and coaching.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

From Workforce Management to Workforce Productivity by Aspect December 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper reveals the technologies that support workforce productivity and offers tips for choosing the right supplier.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

First Contact Resolution by Pegasystems May 2011 - (Free Research) Contact centers have perfected the art of tracking customer inquiries, but first contact resolution is still alluding them.  The key to solving the problem-- not just answering, but resolving the issue.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Eight Essential Steps: Moving the Contact Center Beyond Operational Efficiency to Business Effectiveness by Aspect August 2010 - (Free Research) This paper explains how to move the contact center beyond operational efficiency to business effectiveness and provides best practices employed by businesses that already operate their contact centers as profit centers and touching on the technology that makes it possible. Read on to learn how to transform your contact center into a profit center.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Integrated vs. Unified: Five Reasons Why Contact Centers Must Get Unified by Aspect August 2010 - (Free Research) This paper presents the main differences between integrated and unified contact centers, and gives five reasons why it is imperative for contact centers to adapt a unified solution. Read on to learn how adopting such a solution can increase productivity, decrease costs, and enhance the customer experience, thereby increasing customer loyalty.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Contact Center for Dummies by Avaya July 2011 - (Free Research) With the emergence of worldwide competition in the contact center business, working from a defined methodology is becoming increasingly important. This guide provides an approach to the different methodologies you can use, with information not only on running contact centers, but also on implementing contact center technology in a profitable way.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

How Mobile Devices are Driving Innovations in Contact Centers by Avaya October 2012 - (Free Research) Failing to adopt a customer service strategy for mobile devices could put your business at a serious disadvantage. Gartner research suggests that 80% of companies will suffer revenue loss from the lack of customer support on mobile devices by 2013. Read this paper to learn how to utilize the opportunities mobility offers customer service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Addressing Common Contact Center and Enterprise Business Issues with Speech Analytics by Verint Systems April 2008 - (Free Research) As a solution to contact center issues, this paper suggests Speech analytics, which gives organizations the ability tap into existing recorded customer interactions to gain actionable intelligence for improving business performance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

International Cruise & Excursions, Inc. by Aspect March 2008 - (Free Research) ICE contact center staff had been using Excel spreadsheets to schedule agents, which was an inefficient and difficult practice, Since the agents are the primary drivers of the company's sales.  (CASE STUDY) READ ABSTRACT |

Keeping Pace with the Consumer: What you Need to Deliver a Next-Generation Customer Experience by Aspect August 2010 - (Free Research) This paper outlines key capabilities and top-line technical requirements to consider as you engage with IT to determine the best path forward to meet your customers’ demands. Continue reading to learn tips and techniques to keep pace with the consumer and deliver a next-generations customer experience.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The 10 Worst Practices for Technical Support and How to Overcome Them by NTR Global October 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper will explore 10 of the "worst practices" that are common to customer support operations. We will discuss how these worst practices can creep in to your contact center and ways to deal with them. We will also touch on how to eliminate well‐intentioned management blunders and discuss good and bad uses of support technology.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Planning Guide: BlackBerry Enterprise Server by BlackBerry October 2010 - (Free Research) The BlackBerry Enterprise Server integrates with your organization's existing infrastructure, which can include messaging and collaboration software, calendar and contact information, wireless Internet and intranet access, and custom applications, to provide BlackBerry device users with mobile access to your organization's resources.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Speech Analytics - The Power of Simplicity by Calabrio, Inc. June 2011 - (Free Research) This overview examines the power of Speech Analytics technology to extend resources and expand knowledge.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Contact Center Security: Moving to the True Cloud by LiveOps December 2010 - (Free Research) Today, Cloud is one of the most talked about trends in the IT industry. It’s a paradigm many believe will have a widespread business impact. However, while the term “Cloud”is relatively new, one of the core components, distributed computing, is well-established.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

5 Ways to Optimize Your Workforce by Aspect December 2012 - (Free Research) You need to provide a flexible, efficient and consistent customer experience, but with the myriad of communication channels available today, legacy service strategies are inadequate. Read on to learn how unified communications and workforce optimization can provide the visibility and control needed to deliver exceptional customer service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Dying to Comply by Aspect October 2011 - (Free Research) In 2010 when Ofcom, the United Kingdom's regulatory authority for communications industries, revised their regulations regarding outbound calling, businesses were outraged. Companies feared that the revisions would hinder their success. Read on to learn how complying with these changes can actually lead to improved performance and productivity.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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