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%. 

Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing. 

This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more. 

The risk of a DDoS attack only continues to grow as organizations increasingly rely on the Internet. In this webcast, gain insight to the top 10 truths and trends of DDoS attacks and how to prepare for them. Explore how and why attacks are launched, how attackers are shifting tactics and more. 

<p>This resource details seven questions and discussion points you should consider before integrating cloud backup into your service offerings. </p> 

The right cloud computing solution makes it possible for call centers to eliminate barriers created by obsolete premise-based solutions, achieve customer service excellence and continue business success. Find out how inContact is helping hundreds of call centers greatly reduce costs while simultaneously increasing customer satisfaction levels. 

With an increased demand for dynamic computing accessibility, pressure on your infrastructure is mounting. Fortunately, desktop virtualization provides a method for meeting these demands. Learn about workshifting, a new approach to end-user computing resulting from the advantages of desktop virtualization. 

This paper explains how cloud computing is now also evolving in a private variant whereby enterprises set up cloud-like, centralized shared infrastructure with automated capacity adjustment that internal departmental “customers” utilize in a self-service manner. Realization of efficiency, performance, and agility benefits is reinforcing this trend. 

VMware offers a unique, evolutionary path to cloud computing that reduces IT complexity, significantly lowers costs and enables more flexible, agile service delivery. Access this paper for a detailed look at the VMware approach to the cloud. 

This expert e-guide looks at two real world case studies of how businesses used mobile technology to improve CRM. 

General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). This white paper explains how your business can get TCO as low as possible. 

The term “managed hosting” describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and infrastructure software for thedeployment of applications. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like.