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. 

Because employees on the move require consistent access to people and data, enterprises have invested heavily in communications. HP and Ericsson have combined their strengths to provide an innovative, standards-based framework to unify and consolidate all the elements of an enterprise communications infrastructure. 

In an effort to drive profitability and rein in costs, businesses are continually seeking to improve operational capabilities. Primary to this objective are today’s burgeoning network infrastructures which are continually being asked to do more. 

When outdated equipment and disparate systems were hampering in-house communications, customer service, and workflow, Indiana University Medical Group turned to CDW for a three-part Cisco solution. This case study gives details on the benefits they gained. 

While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers. 

This report, Issue One: How Technology Marketers Meet Buyers' Appetite for Content is the first in the Connecting Through Content series, which explores content creation, distribution and lead nurturing through the dual marketers' and technology buyers' perspectives. 

Tune into this podcast featuring Jon Brown, Publisher of the Data Center media group, who answers chatters' most asked questions on Exchange 2010 and how it will help with unified communications implementation. Gain insight into the key differences between Exchange 2007 and 2010 as well as features regarding security and emails encryption. 

Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer is a web-based tool for the interactive analysis and modification of reports. Download this white paper to learn how with Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer end users can change formatting, hide, add or move data, create charts, sort data and apply functions to data. 

Small businesses in particular have to do more with less, without compromising the ability to deliver quality products and services to their customers. Unified communications and Web 2.0 collaboration tools can help your employees be more productive right from their desktops, simply, easily, and cost-effectively. 

The demands on your data center are constantly increasing, and with data growing even fifty-fold in three years, how can you stay ahead? How can you optimize your data center? Take this interactive data center tour and learn more. 

This one minute flash video and accompanying interactive pdf will introduce you to the concept of a virtual software factory. Check out the interactive pdf for information and links to the solutions behind the factory, including links to some of our newest ROI calculators. 

This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance 

Join Grant Ingersoll, co-founder of Lucid Imagination and chairman of the Apache Lucene PMC, and Ryan McKinley, co-founder of Voyager GIS and Apache Lucene PMC member, and Sameer Maggon of AT&T Interactive for an in-depth technical workshop on the potential and application of the newly released Lucene Spatial libraries.