This paper examines current economic and business trends as well as challenges impacting the contact center market. It provides guidance and recommendations for contact centers looking for an alternative to on-premises contact handling solutions and more. 

Frequently, organizations that operate contact centers are faced with the challenge of working with inadequate telephony equipment. Frustrations range from having to get a few more years out of telephone equipment to having disparate systems. Read this white paper to learn about how contact centers can resolve these telecommunications complexities. 

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. 

Security Benefit needed a customer relationship management (CRM) solution that would provide its remote sales force with access to real-time information. In July 2007, the company implemented Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 3.0. Now, Security Benefit gains from increased agility, new sales opportunities, and reduced IT costs. 

Read this knowledge series paper for the top three myths of knowledge management as they relate to customer service. 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online delivered the reliable solution Norris needed to safeguard, analyze, and share customer data with employees. His team can now use that data to much more effectively sell and up-sell his firm's products and services. 

Channel management is a pressing issue for high-tech manufacturers that sell through partners. IDC believes that companies that leverage channels partners should begin to integrate channel management into broader corporate infrastructure applications that include the supply chain and potentially PLM applications. 

This paper explores four different choices available for offline CRM solution based on SAP platform, namely SAP CRM Mobile Solutions for Laptop users, SAP CRM on Blackberry on other PDA's, CRM Online solution accessed over internet, Offline recording of information using SAP Interactive forms by Adobe. 

Read this paper to learn about options for deploying and managing a home-based agent model with the ultimate goal being increased customer loyalty. As the key driver in this model, other cumulative benefits result: higher agent productivity, reduced attrition, lower operational costs, stronger business continuity, and more. 

As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions. 

This white paper discusses five rules for negotiating that can help make the transaction more pleasant for everyone involved and better your chances at getting what you want. 

In this webcast, learn ways to combat the malicious code of malware and trojans from McAfee's Stuart McClure. Gain insight into how application whitelisting, a means of providing security with less overhead without negative performance impact, can aid your compliance initiatives while not raising operational costs.