This tip guide comes straight from Paul R. Timm's book, 'Technology and Customer Service: Profitable Relationship Building.' Read on to learn how to utilize today's technologies for enhancing customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. 

Read this brief Bloomberg Businesweek case study to learn how The LEGO Group has leveraged organizational changes— including implementing loyalty management software from SAP that integrates with its SAP ERP and CRM platform— to achieve a high level of consumer interaction and improve its customer experience. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

Social channels are here to stay and should be part of your customer engagement strategy, as you will be re­quired to integrate these new channels sooner, rather than later. This paper will help you build the best road map to customer success, integrating both old and new channels into your customer experi­ence strategy. 

Read this Bloomberg Businessweek case study to learn how Swiss grocer Coop leveraged its customers' attachment to their iPhones with their long commutes and time-compressed schedules to boost both loyalty and sales with an iPhone shopping app that integrates with its back-end SAP ERP and CRM systems. 

This Technical Note discusses Talend's data integration capabilities for SAP and covers Talend's SAP connectors, as well as additional SAP-dedicated tools. 

This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

By implementing loyalty programs that are integrated across sales, service, and marketing - across all channels of interaction - a firm can greatly enhance the customer experience, increase customer retention, and foster development of a community of people who serve as advocates for the business. 

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. 

Watch this videocast to learn how IBM LotusLive provides a secure, robust and integrated communication environment to help you manage email, projects, remote teams and global clients. Take advantage of these collaborative tools so your employees can be more productive — regardless of device or geographic location. 

Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and a host of other cost factors. 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables organizations to improve customer service, effectively manage marketing and communications, and increase sales productivity, ultimately driving increased profits and reduced costs. 

Smarter commerce is designed to help companies better integrate and more effectively manage their value chains. It aligns the buy, market, sell and service processes in a way that puts the customer at the center of decisions and actions, which can lead to greater customer loyalty, revenue and profit margin growth.