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Eight Essential Steps: Moving the Contact Center Beyond Operational Efficiency to Business Effectiveness by Aspect August 10, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper explains how to move the contact center beyond operational efficiency to business effectiveness and provides best practices employed by businesses that already operate their contact centers as profit centers and touching on the technology that makes it possible. Read on to learn how to transform your contact center into a profit center.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

7 Habits of Highly Effective Contact Centers and Help Desks by eGain Communications Corp. February 17, 2010 - (Free Research) In this paper, we discuss seven traits of successful contact centers and help desks, backed by stories and tips from our customers - some of the world’s most innovative customer service and support organizations. Read on to learn more about the seven habits that could set your contact center or help desk on the path to success and growth.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Business Case for Integrated Unified Communications and Contact Center Solution by ShoreTel June 30, 2010 - (Free Research) In this whitepaper, discover how using unified communications (UC) in your contact center can help you increase effective communications between employees and clients, which will improve your customer satisfaction, retention, and loyalty rates.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Adobe Solutions for eLearning: Transforming Customer Service in the Telecommunications Industry by Adobe Systems, Inc. November 2008 - (Free Research) Adobe eLearning solutions enable enterprises to deploy rapid, real-time training for CSRs while helping them correlate training effectiveness with business results.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Optimising the collection Process by Aspect December 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses optimization of the collections process, including risk management, list management, metrics, and more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Contact Centers for Dummies by Avaya Inc. November 2008 - (Free Research) This guide provides a high-level approach to the different methodologies with lots of information not only on running contact centers, but also on implementing technology in contact centers in a profitable way.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Contact Center for Dummies by Avaya July 2011 - (Free Research) With the emergence of worldwide competition in the contact center business, working from a defined methodology is becoming increasingly important. This guide provides an approach to the different methodologies you can use, with information not only on running contact centers, but also on implementing contact center technology in a profitable way.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Optimizing Your Return on Customer Attention with Oracle RTD by Oracle Corporation February 2012 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how business intelligence (BI) can combine your explicitly-defined business rules and automatically-identified statistical information to deliver the best possible content to your customers for every single interaction.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Optimizing Your Return on Customer Attention with Oracle RTD by Oracle Corporation April 2010 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how BI can combine your explicitly-defined business rules and automatically-identified statistical information to deliver the best possible content to your customers for every single interaction.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Fine Art of Lead Management and Follow-Up: What Research Shows About Lead Qualification and Nurturing by KnowledgeStorm, Inc (E-mail this company) May 2006 - (Free Research) 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.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cloud Computing and Application Performance Management: IT Effectiveness in Delivering Business Services by CA Technologies. October 2010 - (Free Research) This publication, enhanced by Gartner research, reveals how to take a proactive IT approach which ensures visibility and control during the adoption of virtualization and cloud environments.  (NEWSLETTER) READ ABSTRACT |

Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance: Efficient Storage with Advanced Analytics by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd July 2012 - (Free Research) This ESG Lab Validation report documents the results of hands-on testing of the Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance. Testing focused on ease of deployment, high performance, efficiency of hybrid columnar compression, effectiveness of system analytics, and high availability through multiple failure scenarios. Read now to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs without Losing Customers? by SAP AG February 2008 - (Free Research) Efficient call centers that also meet customer expectations is a challenge that many organizations face. Discover the key steps to turning your call center into a strategic asset.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

eBook: Leveraging CRM to increase sales effectiveness in a challenging economy by Aplicor April 2009 - (Free Research) Sales departments are under increased pressure during these difficult times, as converting leads, moving sales along the pipeline and meeting sales quotas will be challenging this year. What's more, many companies will be raising quotas for their sales teams in 2009, according to recent research from the sales consultancy firm CSO Insights.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Enhancing Interaction Center ROI in Turbulent Economic Times by SAP America, Inc. April 2009 - (Free Research) Interaction center managers, along with their counterparts in sales, marketing, and service, are being asked to deliver greater value on shoestring budgets. While the conventional reaction in tough economic times is to simply cut costs and services, the nature of the current downturn indicates that austerity measures of the past won't work today.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CA White Paper: Evolving the Maturity Level of Your Project Management Office (PMO) by CA Technologies. September 2007 - (Free Research) In the pursuit of improving IT project delivery, many companies tend to focus primarily on the process but might overlook a crucial step: benchmarking effectiveness.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CRM Buyer’s Guide – 2011 Edition by SearchCRM June 2011 - (Free Research) Welcome to SearchCRM.com’s Buyer’s Guide. This directory was designed to be a valuable resource for those getting started with research or evaluating vendors in the CRM market.  (EBOOK)

Making the Back Office Pay: Measuring and Increasing Productivity while Reducing Costs by Aspect August 2010 - (Free Research) Understanding how to manage many different types of back-office tasks in the most consistent and efficient manner is a perplexing challenge. This paper will describe how automated workforce optimization is the solution. Continue reading to learn how to improve the customer experience while decreasing required staffing through predictive modeling.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The global state of the project management office by ComputerWeekly.com May 2011 - (Free Research) This global benchmarking study from ESI international identifies the key challenges and successes experienced by project and programme management offices (PMO) and draws recommendations for the future.  (IT BRIEFING) READ ABSTRACT |

KnowledgeNote: Like a Fine Wine, Leads Get Better Over Time by KnowledgeStorm, Inc (E-mail this company) February 2007 - (Free Research) Research from KnowledgeStorm shows that a high percentage of leads that begin their research on the Web ultimately result in an active project. The technology vendors that nurture these Early Stage leads are often in a better selling position than those vendors that later "pile on" to more advanced, but also more competitive, leads.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

KnowledgeNote: What Research Tells Us About Lead Management and Follow-Up by KnowledgeStorm, Inc (E-mail this company) May 2005 - (Free Research) The best practitioners of online marketing are those who meld Internet marketing and technology tools with timely follow-up and tried-and-true, old fashioned human contact. This paper walks you through key strategies for implementing an effective lead follow-up and qualification process.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Web Lead Evaluation and Scoring Study by KnowledgeStorm, Inc (E-mail this company) April 2006 - (Free Research) KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group conducted an in-depth analysis of 15,452 Web leads generated by KnowledgeStorm. The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of Web leads that maximize sales opportunities and to debunk myths around what makes a good sales lead.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Best practices for integrating your contact centre with salesforce.com by ComputerWeekly.com March 2013 - (Free Research) Analyst group, Nucleus Research explores how companies can use technologies such as Genesys Connect to deliver more value from their service cloud investment  (ANALYST REPORT) READ ABSTRACT |

SAP® Support of the Healthecare Supply Chain's Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value by SAP AG June 2009 - (Free Research) The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How Mobile Devices are Driving Innovations in Contact Centers by Avaya October 2012 - (Free Research) Failing to adopt a customer service strategy for mobile devices could put your business at a serious disadvantage. Gartner research suggests that 80% of companies will suffer revenue loss from the lack of customer support on mobile devices by 2013. Read this paper to learn how to utilize the opportunities mobility offers customer service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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