The tool of choice to the highly mobile workforce is the  mobile phone. From customer contact and records keeping, through calendaring and scheduling to mapping and news feeds, the  mobile phone is usurping the laptop as the main point of technology for the road warrior. 

This webcast explores the option of moving your contact center applications and Unified Communications strategies to the cloud. Uncover the benefits and opportunities of cloud-based solutions, and get help deciding whether being in the cloud or on-premise is best for your organization. 

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. 

This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements. 

Read this white paper to get a framework, plan and recommended best practices for transforming your siloed contact centers into a multi-channel servicing environment. 

In this webcast, William McKnight reveals how contact data quality can impact your business and shares practical insights for measuring, improving, and maintaining enterprise-wide data quality efforts. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com discusses some of the obstacles facing administrators managing virtual environments. Explore the "side effects" virtualization can bring to the data center and learn how implementing a few new tools can help alleviate some of these pain points. 

This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of analytic applications, how they can help your business, and why and how you should integrate these platforms for optimum performance. 

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems. 

What brand of servers do you currently have in place? What kind of virtualization software do you currently have installed in production? Take the "Server Virtualization for Small to Mid-sized Business Survey" to provide your input on virtualization for SMBs and learn about virtualization solutions from Dell and VMware. 

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%.