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Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 3Q2012
3Q2012 Was a Quiet Quarter for Customer Service
by Mitchell Kramer3Q2012 was a mixed quarter for customer service--mixed across customers, products, company activity and fi-nancial performance: two suppliers had very good customer growth; four had good financial performance; two new products; two M&A announcements. -
Next IT ActiveAgent
Virtual Agents that Deliver Sophisticated Answers to Complex Questions
by Mitchell KramerNext IT ActiveAgent’s virtual agents can deliver sophisticated answers to complex questions on web, mobile, and social channels. Read our evaluation. -
Shopping Smarter with Mobile Devices Changes the Face of Holiday Shopping
Mobile Makes Its Mark on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday Sales in 2012
by Patricia Seybold2012 holiday shopping kicked off in the U.S. with a bang. Consumers shopped heavily on the Thanksgiving holiday through “Cyber Monday.” Online shopping from tablet computers was big. So was comparison shopping in stores using mobile phones. -
Profile of Lead Users in Systems Architecture
What Can We Learn from Patty’s Pioneers that Will Help Us Identify Lead Users
by Patricia SeyboldLead users are the people who want to design their own products and services because yours don’t fit the bill. To identify true lead users, you need to know what to look for. Use this example from info tech when you’re recruiting lead users in any domain -
Creative Virtual V-Person
An Offering from a Virtual Assisted-Service Pioneer
by Mitchell KramerCreative Virtual V-Person can help deliver very good virtual assisted-service on web, mobile, and social channels through strong knowledge management and reporting. Read our evaluation. -
The Mobile E-Wallet Customer Ecosystem
What Types of Players Need to Partner and What Do They Need to Do to Gain Customers’ Trust?
by Patricia SeyboldThe mobile e-wallet landscape is a 6-layered ecosystem of players, with e-wallet providers at the top and payment and financial institutions at the bottom. If all players aligned around customer-critical issues, mobile e-wallet adoption would accelerate. -
Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 2Q2012
2Q2012 Was Another Mixed Quarter for Customer Service
by Mitchell Kramer2Q2012 was another mixed quarter for customer service--customer growth and financial performance were mostly flat or down. -
Will Amazon.com Emerge as a Viable Gaming Platform?
Enabling Platform-Agnostic Social Gaming Customer Ecosystems
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon may provide the next major ecosystem for social gaming, challenging Facebook, Zynga, Apple, and Google. -
Adobe Recommendations: Personalizing the Customer Experience
Harnessing the Power of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite
by Susan AldrichAdobe Recommendations should be on the short list of marketers in retail ecommerce, B2B ecommerce, media, financial services, high tech, or publishing who seek to personalize their customer experience and drive higher revenues. -
Alaska Airlines’ Evolves Its Mobile Strategy
Catering to Frequent Flyers Pays Off
by Patricia SeyboldAlaska Airlines has been delivering mobile apps since 2010. They chose to focus first on the functions needed for “day of travel” rather than online booking. -
VirtuOz Intelligent Virtual Agent
Powerful and Flexible Cross-Channel, Cross-Lifecycle Virtual Assisted-Service
by Mitchell KramerVirtuOz Intelligent Virtual Agent can help deliver excellent virtual assisted-service, delivering direct or guided answers to customers’ questions or performing tasks in case management and CRM systems on behalf of customers. Read our evaluation. -
Peerius Recommendation and Personalization Solution Evaluation
Personalizing Many Aspects of Customer Experience
by Susan AldrichOur evaluation explains why Peerius should be on the short list of any retailer who seeks to personalize any aspect of the customer experience using behavioral, profile and social data to predict which content will be the most valuable. -
Steps to Success for Personalizing Your Customer Experience
A Roadmap for Personalization
by Susan AldrichSee how pioneers in personalization, including Bakers Shoes and Netflix, use personalization to great advantage. Personalization varies among businesses and among customers, but we offer the specific steps you can take to set and accomplish personalization goals that enhance your business and your customer experience. -
Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 1Q2012
1Q2012 Was Another Mixed Quarter
by Mitchell Kramer1Q2012 was not a good quarter for customer service; customer growth and financial performance were down; product activity was mixed; companies were quiet. Salesforce.com, however, had a big quarter. -
KANA Experience Analytics
Powerful Analytics, Tight Integration with KANA Service Experience Management
by Mitchell KramerKANA Experience Analytics monitors, analyzes, and acts on customer conversations on the social web and customer conversations on internal channels. Analytics that categorize customer conversations and classify their sentiment are its key strength. -
Social-Service Evaluation Framework
Products that Monitor Social Posts, Identify Customers’ Questions and Problems, and Help Deliver Answers and Solutions
by Mitchell KramerOur framework for evaluating social-service products that help organizations deliver customer service to the social web has four top-level criteria: customer service best fit, analytic functionality, customer service integration, and viability. -
Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?
Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do
by Patricia SeyboldFacebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked. -
Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 4Q2011
Quarterly Update of Vendors and Products: Mixed Results for 2011
by Mitchell KramerEach quarter, we provide a round-up of product and company activity for the top suppliers of customer service solutions: Astute Solutions, Attensity Group, Consona CRM, eGain, IntelliResponse, KANA, Moxie Software, Oracle, and Salesforce.com. Here’s the update as of Q4 2011. -
Unintended Risks of Using Facebook
Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!
by Patricia SeyboldBe a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices. -
Recommendation Solution Evaluation Blank Matrix, Version 2
Evaluating Recommendation Engines, Platforms or Services
by Susan AldrichRecommendations are hot, solving problems from order size to search to personalization. We identify the key criteria for selecting a recommendation solution.
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