This white paper presents the results of a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis comparing premise-based and hosted contact center platforms. 

Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance. 

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 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 outlines the five fundamentals for a successful FCR program. 

This webcast discusses how SAP Business Objects Data Quality Management and SAP CRM can help you enforce data quality and governance, address verification and identifies duplicates to achieve fast time-to-value and cost-effective customer data management. 

Databases hold a wealth of important information but without proper upkeep it is worthless. Read this white paper to learn how easy it is to prevent huge database errors with data cleansing processes. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

How well-versed are you in the three key areas of contract lifecycle management (CLM) that will give you the visibility to control your contracts and comply with regulations? Take this quick quiz to determine your contract competency and understand whether a CLM solution would benefit your organization.