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. 

One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions. 

This white paper describes the concept of “CRM without compromise,” elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and profitable growth. 

With Oracle Applications Extension for Rational Performance you no longer have to jeopardize your business engine during an upgrade. You’ll eliminate risk, increase testing productivity, speedy delivery, and ensure the quality and scalability of your business systems. 

A new era of on-demand remote support has brought with it a unique challenge to the agents who practice it: a new level of transparency for their interpersonal skills. In this white paper, you'll learn from an experienced communications skills expert, 4 specific steps to help supercharge your customer relationships in an era of remote support. 

Is securing the Call Center possible without impacting the customer experience? This paper discusses the advantages and benefits of using knowledge-based authentication (KBA) to bolster Call Center security over other solutions. 

Encumbered by paper-based work orders and instructions relayed verbally, Cable TV company Videotron needed a solution that helped manage service requests in a way that cut costs and service call mistakes. They chose a wireless solution from Blackberry that automates all administrative steps involved in handling a service call. 

Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer. Discover how to get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service with an application grid. 

Companies are using technology and other tools to help employees deliver an organization's best collective thinking during each customer interaction. Among them is Hewlett-Packard (HP), which we will feature in this paper. We will also explain why empowering your key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary results. 

Thanks to VMware, North Shore Medical Center provides better support for physicians and healthcare professionals while improving data center management with Advanced Micro Devices processor-based solutions. 

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. 

Operational data governance is the process of evaluating data to see if data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance.