This tip guide features chapter 6 from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Access this resource now to learn how to align business process with customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives, tips for CRM strategy and how to effectively leverage the call center to improve customer loyalty. 

This guide helps organizations assemble the right people, make the right investment in a solution and helps finance create best practices to ensure a successful XBRL compliance. Read this now and learn what XBRL is, how it works and why it’s mandated, best practices to prepare for an XBRL mandate, who to involve in the mandate process and more. 

Read this white paper and learn about the business challenges and risks in existing manual ‘last mile’ processes dependent on different version spreadsheets, word processing files and unsecured emails, and the benefits and the value of automating ‘last mile’ processes. 

Read this guide to learn best practices to become strategic partners with your suppliers and understand how a sourcing strategy can make or break a company. 

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the prevailing IT trends today. Cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and better allocate their compute resources. Inside, learn more about this emerging technology and what it can do for your organization. 

The UK's June Budget provides a mandate for all government departments to submit their spending review plans before the summer break and reports that it has scheduled the government spending review for October. 

Read this white paper and learn a systematic approach to select software for your planning, budgeting and forecasting needs. Read how to combine today's best practices with leading-edge technology. 

While the consensus around the benefits of ITIL is virtually universal, ITIL initiatives run the gamut – both in terms of costs and benefits. Learn how your service management platform can play a huge role in the degree to which you realize the potential benefits of ITIL in your organization. 

EaglePicher management turned to Plex Systems of Auburn Hills, MI to help initiate a manufacturing-based ERP system for its manufacturing facilities. Its new lean manufacturing abilities have enabled it to accurately determine cost and profitability by part, allowing it to become increasingly competitive, especially against offshore competitors. 

This essential resource details how one IT services industry organization employed a converged infrastructure to realize more cost-effective cloud-based managed IT services for offshore clients. 

Appleby, a provider of offshore legal, fiduciary and administration services, needed a disaster recovery solution that would replicate data among its geographically dispersed offices. Read this white paper to learn how they successfully implemented Fluid Data technology. 

Petrobras needed to accelerate data replication from offshore drilling platforms back to the corporate headquarters. Download the case study to learn how Riverbed deployed Steelhead® appliances to reduce Petrobras’ backup window from 34 hours to four hours, improve application performance for remote workers to LAN-like speeds, and more. 

Why is scripting so daunting to many IT pros? It's not an impossible skill to master - most people can master a simple system if they have the opportunity to practice.  This white paper introduces an identifiable pattern that virtually all Contact Centers follow and associates key elements of that pattern with the corresponding scripting code.