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Business Skill Courseware by SkillSoft Corporation SkillSoft’s Business Skills Library focuses on behavioral skills that are designed for business professionals and key to performance regardless of job responsibility, as well as the skills and knowledge that are relevant to the various areas of functional responsibility in today’s business organizations.  (ASP & SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

The Guide to Data Movement and Governance by IBM November 28, 2011 - (Free Research) Missed opportunities and lost revenue might be the least of your worries. In some cases, poor practices can lead to lawsuits, fines and even the failure of the business itself. The purpose of this e-guide is to help you grasp the measures that can keep your organization on track to meet objectives and stay in line with regulations.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

ITIL: The building blocks of an ITSM strategy by FrontRange Solutions Inc. January 06, 2012 - (Free Research) Services are the building blocks of an ITSM strategy, but how does an enterprise begin to pick and choose the "right" services to manage or develop? Inside this e-guide, get the answer to this question and more. Gain expert insight into utilizing ITIL for continuous improvement in asset management, ITSM, and help desk operations.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Cisco Unified Data Center: The Foundation for Private Cloud Infrastructure by Insight October 19, 2012 - (Free Research) Access this exclusive resource to learn about a private cloud solution that is designed to simplify your data center to help meet the demands of an increasingly distributed workforce.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine Issue 2 by SearchCRM January 31, 2012 - (Free Research) This second issue of Customer Experience Exchange highlights the contact center. Often an overlooked facet of customer relationship management (CRM), the contact center is usually the first way a customer reaches out to a company and thus should always be considered in CRM strategies.  (EZINE)

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Issue 3 by SearchCRM March 20, 2012 - (Free Research) 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%.  (EZINE)

Who Are My Best Customers? by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) Who are my best customers? If you manage sales, marketing, or customer service, you want an answer to that. That's because implementing successful strategies for every customer segment is critical to increasing business profits. This paper describes just a few of the ways that you can use analytics to better understand your customers.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

New Contact Center Megatrends and How to Ride them: The Contact Center Executive’s Guide to Career Success in Turbulent Times by eGain Communications Corp. February 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Megatrends are not fads; they won’t go away after a while. The trick is to embrace change and stay ahead of these trends instead of getting swept away. This paper discusses what the seven megatrends of transforming contact centers today. Read on to learn more about these trends and learn some proven ways of how to benefit from them.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Expert guide: How to design job roles and plan careers structures in the IT department by ComputerWeekly.com November 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Somewhere between our in-depth consultants’ guides and our short AnalystNotes that discuss specific aspects of IT careers, there is a need for an up-to-dateoverview of IT career structures. This is it.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Computer Weekly – 21 May 2013: How Marks & Spencer innovates through IT by ComputerWeekly.com May 21, 2013 - (Free Research) In this week's Computer Weekly: M&S CIO Darrell Stein tells us how technology is changing the retailer as it develops its multichannel strategy. Our latest buyer's guide looks at mobile device management. And with many public sector IT workers being laid off through austerity cuts, we find out how to get a private sector job.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Social Media to Win Over Customers by SearchCRM March 12, 2013 - (Free Research) While many businesses are eager to join their customers at the social media party, doing so without the proper internal processes in place could spell disaster. In this brief expert e-book, you can learn how to create a successful social CRM initiative (and valuable customer relations) through implementing the right processes and technologies.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

CRM in Financial Services: Best practices, trends and strategy for the new economy by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution November 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Find out how financial services companies are leveraging CRM technology and best practices to improve service and operational efficiency. Read this e-book to learn more.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Mobile apps reach the busy customer by SearchCRM March 19, 2013 - (Free Research) In this expert e-zine, discover two key areas of app development in today's mobile climate: delivering quality mobile customer service, and uniting front-end and back-end functionality. Also included is a case study of a mobile app that delivered user-oriented, ultra-simple service with outstanding results.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

Taleo Research White Paper - Career Site 2.0: Taking the Lead in the War for Talent by Taleo February 21, 2008 - (Free Research) This paper focuses on the next generation of corporate career websites, the candidate experience, and the opportunities to implement Web 2.0 features and functionality to gain competitive advantage in the midst of a war for talent.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Turning Customer Interactions into Money: Using Predictive Analytics to Achieve Stellar ROI by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters December 31, 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper makes the case for using predictive analytics as a catalyst for a company's growth. It includes best practices from several global companies including: Cablecom, Royal & Sun Alliance, and T. Rowe Price. Ultimately, it is about maximizing the level of understanding that can be achieved with customer data.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Taking a swing at social CRM by SearchCRM May 16, 2012 - (Free Research) This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments.  (EZINE)

How to Profit in a Downturn: 4 Customer-centric Strategies for Growth in a Challenging Market by Pivotal CRM, a CDC Software solution February 20, 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, learn how your organization can use customer-centric strategies and CRM tools to maximize the value and loyalty of your customer base. Gain insight into new areas of opportunity and do more with less in a time of economic uncertainty.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

To Get Promoted in Customer Support, Do These Five Things by Parature, Inc. March 2008 - (Free Research) Ascendancy in customer support ranks today demands a mix of both technical and business insight. Professionals that make service and support their career path and successfully move up the ladder, boast a range of skills across both disciplines.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Capacity Allocation Efficiency Explained - Presentation Transcript by Dell, Inc. September 2012 - (Free Research) Jon William Toigo offers up his five best tips for maximizing efficiency in today's complex data storage environments. This tip covers capacity allocation efficiency, including advice on how to prevent storage-related downtime.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Staying connected: Don't let faulty mobile applications lose customers by SearchCRM May 2013 - (Free Research) Mobile applications are quickly becoming the most common way customers interact with businesses, and can often make or break a customer's experience. In this expert e-book, explore what customers expect from mobile applications and discover the technologies and practices you'll need to create useful, engaging mobile apps.  (EBOOK) READ ABSTRACT |

Let Customer Feedback Do the Driving by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters May 2007 - (Free Research) As the second installment in The Customer Innovation Series, this paper describes why and how Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) is a critical component in solving the problem of enhancing customer-driven innovation.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Increasing Competitiveness and Reducing Costs in Today's Economy by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd November 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Web 2.0 at Work: Departmental Use Cases by Oracle Corporation August 2008 - (Free Research) With the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies into your enterprise, you can greatly increase the value of your company's most important assets. Leading companies are harnessing Web 2.0 technologies and applying them to build their next-generation workplaces.  (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)

Women in Technology 2012 by ComputerWeekly.com July 2012 - (Free Research) Women technology experts find their careers just as rewarding as men, but image problems are deterring new female recruits, this exclusive research from Computer Weekly and Mortimer Spinks reveals.  (ESSENTIAL GUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

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