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How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Taking a swing at social CRM by SearchCRM May 16, 2012 - (Free Research) This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments.  (EZINE)

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine Issue 2 by SearchCRM January 31, 2012 - (Free Research) This second issue of Customer Experience Exchange highlights the contact center. Often an overlooked facet of customer relationship management (CRM), the contact center is usually the first way a customer reaches out to a company and thus should always be considered in CRM strategies.  (EZINE)

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Issue 3 by SearchCRM 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%.  (EZINE)

Who Are My Best Customers? by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) Who are my best customers? If you manage sales, marketing, or customer service, you want an answer to that. That's because implementing successful strategies for every customer segment is critical to increasing business profits. This paper describes just a few of the ways that you can use analytics to better understand your customers.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Mobile apps reach the busy customer by SearchCRM March 19, 2013 - (Free Research) In this expert e-zine, discover two key areas of app development in today's mobile climate: delivering quality mobile customer service, and uniting front-end and back-end functionality. Also included is a case study of a mobile app that delivered user-oriented, ultra-simple service with outstanding results.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Social Media to Win Over Customers by SearchCRM March 12, 2013 - (Free Research) While many businesses are eager to join their customers at the social media party, doing so without the proper internal processes in place could spell disaster. In this brief expert e-book, you can learn how to create a successful social CRM initiative (and valuable customer relations) through implementing the right processes and technologies.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

3-2-1 Contact the Call Center by SearchCRM January 31, 2013 - (Free Research) Contact centers can't live in the past. This three-part handbook offers insight into how contact centers can modernize an agent's tools to meet the demands and needs of customers whose mobile and social empowerment has put companies in the virtual hot seat.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CRM in Financial Services: Best practices, trends and strategy for the new economy by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution November 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Find out how financial services companies are leveraging CRM technology and best practices to improve service and operational efficiency. Read this e-book to learn more.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Turning Customer Interactions into Money: Using Predictive Analytics to Achieve Stellar ROI by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters December 31, 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper makes the case for using predictive analytics as a catalyst for a company's growth. It includes best practices from several global companies including: Cablecom, Royal & Sun Alliance, and T. Rowe Price. Ultimately, it is about maximizing the level of understanding that can be achieved with customer data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Guide: Social Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges by IBM December 21, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this e-guide to learn how social media analytics can help businesses improve marketing by quantifying customer value at different stages of the life cycle, but also that they need tools like in-memory computing to provide real-time analysis of vast volumes of customer behavior data.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Let Customer Feedback Do the Driving by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters May 31, 2007 - (Free Research) As the second installment in The Customer Innovation Series, this paper describes why and how Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) is a critical component in solving the problem of enhancing customer-driven innovation.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today's Economy by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd November 24, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics: Making Unstructured Data Ready for Predictive Analytics by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

ITIL: The building blocks of an ITSM strategy by FrontRange Solutions Inc. January 06, 2012 - (Free Research) Services are the building blocks of an ITSM strategy, but how does an enterprise begin to pick and choose the "right" services to manage or develop? Inside this e-guide, get the answer to this question and more. Gain expert insight into utilizing ITIL for continuous improvement in asset management, ITSM, and help desk operations.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

CRM Buyer’s Guide – 2011 Edition by SearchCRM June 02, 2011 - (Free Research) Welcome to SearchCRM.com’s Buyer’s Guide. This directory was designed to be a valuable resource for those getting started with research or evaluating vendors in the CRM market.  (EBOOK)

Beyond web analytics by Quest Software, now a part of Dell January 24, 2013 - (Free Research) In this white paper, learn how to leave the guesswork behind and go beyond Web analytics with user experience management tools that give you the insight on the 'whys' behind your online retail customers' behavior that you need to ensure you're delivering a superior customer experience and optimal business results.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Achieving Business Value with Network and Application Visibility by Riverbed Technology, Inc. April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) IDC conducted nine in-depth interviews with current Riverbed Cascade customers in order to obtain qualitative information about the end-user experience since deploying the network and application visibility solution, and obtain quantifiable data specific to each customer. Read this analyst report to learn more.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

The Customer You Know: Keeping, Leveraging, and Profiting from Current Customers with Business Analytics by SAS Institute Inc. May 05, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn about business analytics and how it can significantly impact customer service improvements and customer retention and how it can enable your company to develop more agile strategies that will allow you to adapt to changing customer behavior and achieve their business goals.  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

Predictive Analytics for Market Basket Analysis by IBM February 20, 2011 - (Free Research) In this paper, learn how retailers are using predictive analytics to uncover patterns in the products purchased together to differentiate assortment, merchandise stores and develop combined product offers to drive sales and profits.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Drive social intelligence to engage with customers in ways that were previously impossible. by Hewlett-Packard Limited January 21, 2013 - (Free Research) It's now possible to leverage social intelligence by combining insight from your customers' social media behavior with the classic customer intelligence from conventional marketing and CRM. Access this helpful resource to start on the path to gain the full potential of social intelligence.  (RESOURCE) READ ABSTRACT |

Making the most of customer data: CRM analytics by SearchCRM April 02, 2013 - (Free Research) View this white paper to unlock the power behind CRM analytics. It explains how you can develop a view of the customer by analyzing social media data. Find out how to make the most of tweets and Facebook postings by reading this resource now.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Computer Weekly 15 November 2011: Read this week's issue of the UK's leading technology publication, with all the latest news, analysis and opinion for IT managers by ComputerWeekly.com November 11, 2011 - (Free Research) In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now.  (EZINE)

The Next Generation of CRM - Engaging with the Empowered Customer in Turbulent Times by SAP America, Inc. March 31, 2009 - (Free Research) This Webcast and complimentary Podcast explores today's consumer trends and new customer strategies that will help companies not only survive the current economy but emerge as a leader in the long run.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Web User Experience: Common Indicators for Business and IT Collaboration by Quest Software, now a part of Dell December 27, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how to bridge the gap in user experience management (UEM) between business stakeholders and IT by helping each group better understand both perspectives on the user experience. It describes the most common UEM indicators and what they mean to both the business and IT.   (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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