This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it. 

In this e-book, we examine ten ways sales organizations can accelerate the progression from cold to close. From improving marketing results through pinpoint prospecting to making sure sales and marketing are on the same page, here are some tangible steps you can take to move faster from cold to close. 

Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework. 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online delivered the reliable solution Norris needed to safeguard, analyze, and share customer data with employees. His team can now use that data to much more effectively sell and up-sell his firm's products and services. 

Frequently, organizations that operate contact centers are faced with the challenge of working with inadequate telephony equipment. Frustrations range from having to get a few more years out of telephone equipment to having disparate systems. Read this white paper to learn about how contact centers can resolve these telecommunications complexities. 

In this paper learn how a single bad experience with a contact center may result in a customer being lost for life, something that companies cannot afford. 

This webcast shares techniques for communicating with your customers in an acceptable manner that fits their preferences while expanding your marketable universe. 

In this webcast, we show you how the productivity of your sales, customer service, and marketing teams can be dramatically increased by taking advantage of the enhancements in the newly released Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. 

Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle. 

This resource provides IT security professionals with the information needed to understand PCI compliance and specifically, one of the standard's latest requirements, 6.6. In addition, the paper offer tips for successful PCI 6.6 compliance and highlights compliance successes from real-world companies. 

One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions. 

City Securities Corporation wanted an easy way to maintain a current list of PIN numbers to enable their members to communicate using their BlackBerry smartphones - even in the event of a disaster. Read this case study to find out how PINpoint, an application from Tenet Computer Group, helped them overcome this issue. 

The Internet has changed the dynamics of technology sales and marketing. While most marketing efforts emphasize generating leads, and most sales efforts are focused on closing sales, not enough consideration is given to the little-understood but vital middle ground of lead qualification. Learn more about industry best practices.