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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)

Gartner: Context-aware computing by ComputerWeekly.com June 01, 2012 - (Free Research) Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

LEGO: Nurturing Consumer Loyalty Bloomberg BusinessWeek Article by SAP America, Inc. December 31, 2011 - (Free Research) This LEGO customer success story reported by Bloomberg Businessweek highlights how LEGO leverages SAP Customer Relationship Managment (SAP CRM), especially the loyalty management software, to run the compnay's customer loyalty program.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Editorial Tip: Measuring the ROI of Social CRM: No easy task by Infor February 14, 2011 - (Free Research) As more organizations invest in social channels, the question of value becomes increasingly important. In social media, ROI alone may not tell the value of the effort, and benefits to the business from the customer service approach could be gauged by a variety of factors. Uncover how to measure the real value of an investment in social CRM.  (EGUIDE) 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)

E-Book: Gaining Control of Order Management Processes by SAP America, Inc. April 25, 2012 - (Free Research) This e-book, packed with four expert articles, highlights SAP's solution to sales order management, offering insight into its CRM, ERP and supply chain management components. Read these insightful articles now to learn about this option's strengths and weaknesses, how to properly define the sales process and so much more.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

What's your Customer Experience Advantage? by SAP America, Inc. March 23, 2011 - (Free Research) SAP Insider Article covering new SAP CRM innovations which help companies empower their employees, substantially improve the customer experience, and thereby achieve a competitive advantage.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange, Issue 7 by SearchCRM November 13, 2012 - (Free Research) This 3-article E-Zine offers analysis and advice for the CEM professional. In the featured article, Cameron Kittle reviews CEM technologies and shares the thoughts of industry observers who stress that a company should first know what it intends to do with its wired connection to customers. Continue on for this article and more.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Experts say CEM technology can build single view of customer by Infor CRM January 24, 2012 - (Free Research) This tip guide from our editorial team features an article on overcoming single-view issues and how customer experience management (CEM) technologies are a valuable tool for this problem.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Journal of Management Excellence - Enterprise Performance Management Innovations by Oracle Corporation April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This collection of journal articles focuses on the many facets of enterprise performance management that can help organizations thrive through the recovery, including; integrating the financial close and reporting process, managing the transition to IFRS, centralized enterprise dimension management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to retain customer loyalty in the competitive retail market by Infor CRM January 16, 2012 - (Free Research) Read this now to learn how single-view software could enhance your customer relationship interactions with more insightful data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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)

eGuide: Collaboration and case management: Trends, challenges and expert advice by IBM November 11, 2011 - (Free Research) This e-guide takes a look at the use of collaboration and social networking strategies and tools  for case management, including a big picture introduction, expert advice for avoiding headaches, and findings from ebizQ.com's recent survey of business and IT professionals who are using case management in their own companies.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

E-Book: How to keep customers -- and keep them happy: High-return tactics for building customer loyalty by Microsoft October 28, 2011 - (Free Research) This ebook is full of expert advice for implementing a successful customer experience management (CEM) plan.  (EBOOK)

Optimizing MYSQL Server on Sun X64 Servers and Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc. December 2008 - (Free Research) This article provides an overview of the integrated Sun platform, outlines the steps for optimizing MySQL Server on Sun x64 servers, and describes benchmark results for solutions with Sun Fire X4100 servers.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The future of software development: The FT's view. by ComputerWeekly.com July 2012 - (Free Research) Jagdeep Singh Bhambra, head of software development at the FT, gives his views on the future of software development, in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club for IT leaders.  (IT BRIEFING) READ ABSTRACT |

Designing Artificial Intelligence for Games (part 2) by Intel Software Network June 2009 - (Free Research) This article gets dangerously close to real artificial intelligence (AI). All intelligent agents need to have a basic ability to perceive their environment and some means of navigating and moving within the world around them-be it real or otherwise. Read on to learn more about AI.  (WHITE PAPER)

Virtual Data Center E-Zine - Volume 28: Achieving the Right Level of Consolidation in a Virtual Data Center by SearchDataCenter.com November 2010 - (Free Research) Virtualization allows organizations to consolidate servers, reduce costs and increase efficiency. But too much of anything is rarely good. In this issue, the downsides of excessive consolidation and strategies for striking the right balance to improve computing efficiency are explained. Plus, how to improve server performance and consolidation.  (EZINE)

Best Practices for Migrating SAP Environments by Sun Microsystems, Inc. June 2009 - (Free Research) This Sun BluePrints™ article explains the process of moving an SAP environment from one system to another, and describes the resources and services available from Sun to assist users planning a migration.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Developing HTML5 Applications for AppUp: Part 1 A Simple Example by Intel December 2011 - (Free Research) This is the first in a series of articles covering how to develop HTML5 applications for Intel AppUp. This first article will cover the basics of getting a minimal application packaged using the Encapsulator tool. Later articles will describe some larger example applications that illustrate different features of HTML5.  (TRAINING GUIDE)

Negotiating cloud contracts by ComputerWeekly.com January 2013 - (Free Research) This article, drawing on sources including interviews with cloud computing providers, users and other market actors, is the first in-depth research into how cloud contracts are negotiated.  (ESSENTIAL GUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Sharepoint E-zine Vol.1: Governance Implementation Management by SearchWinIT August 2008 - (Free Research) SearchWinIT.com's SharePoint e-zine – is a monthly Web magazine packed with in-depth articles and tips written by SharePoint to make you a SharePoint master. Our editorial focuses on three main areas: governance, management and implementation.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Gartner: CIO checklist for next-generation mobile strategies by ComputerWeekly.com July 2012 - (Free Research) This article by Gartner analysts provides CIOs with a checklist of guidelines and questions to help businesses make the most out of the next generation mobile technology.  (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

Information Security Magazine – December 2010: Understanding the Data Accountability and Trust Act by Information Security Magazine December 2010 - (Free Research) This month’s issue of Information Security magazine takes you deep inside the Data Accountability And Trust Act (DATA), pending legislation that could reshape the national privacy landscape and impact the way enterprises and midmarket companies architect their security operations.  (EZINE)

Gartner: HTML5 and the journey to the modern web   by ComputerWeekly.com July 2012 - (Free Research) Gartner analysts explain what steps IT departments need to take to take advantage of HTML5 and why they need to act sooner rather than later.    (ANALYST BRIEF) READ ABSTRACT |

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