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Why You Should Take a Holistic Approach to ITIL and Service Support by BMC Software, Inc. June 15, 2009 - (Free Research) In these tough economic times, how do you address the challenge of reducing costs without diminishing your service quality? Companies can lower costs significantly and meet the growing demand for services by taking a more holistic approach. This paper discusses the importance of taking a unified approach to service support management and...  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Podcast - How to Produce an Actionable IT Service Catalog by newScale, Inc. October 2008 - (Free Research) The ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) best practice framework advocates that IT organizations produce a Service Catalog to document and communicate standard service offerings. As the cornerstone for IT-business alignment, the Service Catalog is...  (PODCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Effectively Balancing Speed, Quality and Cost Metrics by Citrix Online- GoToAssist October 2011 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to gain insight to new ways to leverage remote support platforms to create effective dashboards for customer and technical support. Along with recommendations for what to include in service dashboards.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Growing Importance of IT Support Services by Hewlett-Packard Company November 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper takes a closer look at the support services marketplace and focuses on one key player that is receiving a lot of attention from IT professionals. Discover emerging trends shaping the landscape for this technology and determine whether your business could benefit from establishing a contract with this provider.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Service and Support: Made to Measure Using Consona Analytics as a Roadmap to Success by Consona Corporation October 2009 - (Free Research) Management 101 tells us that success in business starts with setting goals and measuring progress toward them. Service and support success requires that all stakeholders know where they’re going and how they’re doing.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How Does your Service Measure Up? Getting to Grips with Metrics by GoToAssist July 2011 - (Free Research) This quick guide will identify some of the most popular metrics that you should be measuring, look at ways in which you can measure them, and how to utilize these measures to improve your service delivery.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Measuring the Business Impact of Support by Citrix Online UK July 2010 - (Free Research) Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured - despite the influence of support on higher revenue, customer satisfaction and increased productivity. This new ServiceXRG white paper explores the importance of quantifying the impact of support on your business.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Quest MessageStats™ by Dell Software Quest MessageStats empowers executive management, Information Technology (IT) managers, and Exchange administrators to perform business-critical analysis and reporting on Exchange e-mail infrastructures.  (ASP & SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

Making Service and Support Your Revenue Engine: The Initiative That’s Too Important to Delay by Consona Corporation June 2011 - (Free Research) The value of service and support is hidden in a fog of metrics—measures that link monitors and bulletin boards, populate binders, fascinate managers, annoy employees, and ultimately mislead us about the business. Read this whitepaper and discover the real value of support is the revenue it protects and creates.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Application Performance Management in a Virtualized Environment by Compuware Corporation April 2011 - (Free Research) This white paper focuses on the APM challenges of implementing VMware’s ESX server, the leading virtualization solution in use today, and the application performance challenges when running in a VMware ESX environment, successful approaches to solving these challenges, and how Compuware’s Vantage 11.5 provides a complete VMware APM solution.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Practical and Flexible IT Service Management for the Real World by Numara Software January 2009 - (Free Research) This webinar will show you why Numara® FootPrints® 9, a highly flexible and practical service desk solution, is the best value in the service desk market today.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

The Best Best Practice Guide: Benchmarking for Service Desk Success by GoToAssist November 2010 - (Free Research) Benchmarking is a critical process for any Service Desk that wants to gauge the quality of their service delivery. Too often, however, desks are overly concerned with industry benchmarks and hitting industry standards for call waiting times, resolution time and the perennial cost per email. Download the SDI best practices guide to learn more!  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Linux Related Technical Support Study by SUSE August 2010 - (Free Research) When it comes to technical support services, not all Linux offerings are created equal. This white paper evaluates three leading Linux vendors on several critical support capabilities, including ease of access to services, knowledge and expertise, and speed and effectiveness of resolution.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring by Hewlett-Packard Company August 2008 - (Free Research) This whitepaper discuss Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring. It explores how end-user monitoring can help improve customer satisfaction.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Service Desk Consolidation Cuts Costs and Increases Service Quality by BMC Software, Inc. June 2009 - (Free Research) The service desk is the last place you should try to cut back. For external-facing organizations, quality support keeps customer loyalty and repeat business high and ensures that partners and suppliers can do business with you cost effectively. Read this white paper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Seven Contact Center Trends You Can't Ignore by Siemens Enterprise Communications January 2013 - (Free Research) For customer service contact centers, it's critical to stay on top of the latest in technology and practices in order to provide your customers with the experience they expect. Check our this easy to read resource to discover 7 trends in contact center strategy, so that you can prepare your organization for what's to come  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine Issue 2 by SearchCRM January 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)

The 10 worst practices for Technical Support and how to overcome them by NTR Global November 2011 - (Free Research) Delivering superior service and support is more important than ever as companies strive to differentiate themselves from the competition. In many organizations, service quality is governed by self-harming "worst practices" instead of productive best practices. Learn what these practices are and how to avoid them.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

6 Key Metrics for Measuring Lean Success by Infor September 2008 - (Free Research) This webcast by IndustryWeek discusses the key metrics your company can use to help ensure you accomplish you lean goals. It brings together members of the manufacturing community to discuss strategic and operational initiatives.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Customer Experience Exchange E-Zine: Issue 3 by SearchCRM March 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)

Justifying Your Technology Investments Through ROI by KnowledgeStorm Webinars (E-mail this company) April 2004 - (Free Research) As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Optimizing Web-to-Mainframe Performance of Critical Business Services by IBM June 2008 - (Free Research) Sign up today for this valuable webcast to learn how integrated Web-to-mainframe performance management can help you achieve higher levels of availability, performance and customer success rates.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Solitaire: Supercharge Oracle Products with PureFlex Systems by IBM June 2013 - (Free Research) A third-party group conducted surveys, gathered information, and performed analysis in order to uncover the benefits and relative costs associated with implementing the IBM PureFlex platform as part Oracle IT architecture. This paper outlines their findings today to get the business perspective of leveraging this converged infrastructure.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Social Media to Win Over Customers by SearchCRM March 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 |

Implementing Cloud Storage Metrics to Improve IT Efficiency and Capacity Management by Intel December 2011 - (Free Research) Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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