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. 

This paper seeks to get to the bottom of gaps in CRM initiatives, identifying specific changes that have occurred in the process, areas where it is falling short and other tidbits to consider as your strategies move forward. Read this and gain insight into the results of a survey conducted amongst 160 firms with annual revenues of $250 million. 

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Contact Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take to manage that complexity. 

Learn about the technical components of Oracle WebLogic Suite to create an infrastructure layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which business applications and SOA run.  Download this free, compelling white paper now.   

“Before Autotask, we were spending way too much time billing and invoicing. Now an invoice goes out half an hour after the work was completed.” Richard Fitzgerald, President of 2GEN Pty LTD 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

This podcast will focus on the content of a new KnowledgeStorm research report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing. The research finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

<p>Success in the IT world requires the ability to exceed customer expectations on a regular basis, and, oftentimes, achieving this goal means enlisting the help of a modern service assurance strategy. Read this white paper to learn about the application capabilities a service assurance system should include and how you can implement one today.</p> 

In this expert e-zine, explore the numerous benefits of Exchange Online retention policies as well as the PowerShell script necessary to manage and implement them. In addition, discover techniques to repair Outlook Web App 2010, new tools from the Microsoft Exchange team, and the latest Exchange updates. 

ArcGIS® 10 is an innovative geographic information system (GIS) technology. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

This paper discusses first contact resolution and the offerings for measuring success with FCR.