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 whitepaper to discover the path to proper service desk consolidation and its many benefits. 

This paper explores the concepts of sales growth in relation to understanding who your customers are, connecting a go-to-market strategy with technology, and using technology to sharpen internal practices. 

This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team. 

The SAP® Business All-in-One fast-start program enables you to configure a solution online, obtain an estimate of costs, and implement the solution quickly and cost-effectively. It delivers rapid time to value and lets you tailor the solution to meet your changing needs, protecting your long-term investment. 

VMware vSphere™, the industry's first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services. 

This webcast demonstrates how Microsoft software can help you develop more profitable customer relationships by simplifying how your employees work with colleagues, partners, and customers. 

The three main drivers of SaaS adoption-low initial cost of ownership, speed of deployment, and low internal IT resource profile-make SaaS solutions attractive at any time, but even more so in times of a challenging market, provided there is a bona fide business need and the initiative can be expected to create additional revenue or save money. 

This white paper highlights the important role technology can play in the innovation process and looks at how a customer-focused approach to innovation can be supported by flexible customer relationship management tools. It explains how businesses can use CRM to foster and implement customer-centric innovation, enhancing the customer experience. 

This paper describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle™ Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris™ Operating System and Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems. 

This case study describes how Ceridian used LogMeIn Rescue to streamline its 50-to 90 day implementation process and to increase troubleshooting capabilities for customer support analysts handling 2,500 calls per day. With Rescue in place, Ceridian has experienced an increase in their customer satisfaction rates, which have grown from 83% to 94%. 

This whitepaper will provide insight into: a- the communications requirements of three specific industry segments (transportation, energy and the public sector), b- best practices to deliver the services and manage the projects efficiently, and c- innovative solutions and strategies deployed by these industry segments. 

In August 2008, Qualcomm commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the benefits that North American businesses have experienced as a result of providing notebook users with mobile broadband connectivity. In this paper you'll hear what IT and telecom/network decision-makers had to say. 

Increasing competition motivated Coca-Cola company executives to launch a new strategic direction, mandating a platform to communicate and engage with all employees. It implemented a Microsoft-based hosted worldwide intranet with messaging and collaboration tools, which are accessible to all employees from any device.