There has been tremendous innovation in contact center workforce management (WFM) over the past three years, with new vendors and offerings entering the scene. Find out how the new generation of WFM solutions are easier to use, improve agent satisfaction, enhance customer experience and cut costs. 

Your customers are also calling, chatting, tweeting and emailing your contact center agents, sharing valuable information during each interaction. Download this complimentary white paper to learn how you can easily gather and leverage data from all customer interactions to assess how your agents are performing and improve the customer experience. 

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. 

This white paper describes five tips and challenges for using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. 

In this podcast, get an executive-level overview of CEM methodologies and solutions that companies use to gather this data into a single location, allowing agents to serve customers faster and more accurately. 

In this whitepaper, we will describe the business imperative for closing the multi-channel customer experience gap and discuss how doing so gives you opportunities to differentiate your business. Read on to learn more. 

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. 

When we talk about the world becoming increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, the most ubiquitous example is the smartphone. It collects and disseminates data while its users are at home and on the go, serving up just as much socially driven info as static, always-there web content. This white paper outlines smarter commerce. 

This IDC case study examines the benefits TIAA-CREF, a Fortune 100 financial services firm, gained from automating their eCommerce marketing. By deploying Oracle Real-Time Decisions, TIAA-CREF was able to apply intelligent process automation to customize online customer interactions. 

A mobile worker’s particular need is mobile CRM – and the goal in a sales context is to deliver all the info and tools on-the-go reps need to manage leads and opportunities. Read in this Selling Power magazine how SAP’s mobile CRM tools help companies to increase sales significantly. 

With management and operations resources in such high demand, network managers need the most advanced tools to manage the network infrastructure and assure the organization remains profitable, efficient and reliable. Read this white paper to learn the major requirements for network management solutions to today’s IT challenges.