Customer Information & CRM

  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 1Q2012

    1Q2012 Was Another Mixed Quarter

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    1Q2012 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.
    Jun. 7, 2012
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  • KANA Experience Analytics

    Powerful Analytics, Tight Integration with KANA Service Experience Management

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    KANA 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.
    May. 24, 2012
    Technologies
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  • Social-Service Evaluation Framework

    Products that Monitor Social Posts, Identify Customers’ Questions and Problems, and Help Deliver Answers and Solutions

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    Our 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.
    Apr. 5, 2012
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  • Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?

    Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do

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    Facebook’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.
    Mar. 22, 2012
    Strategies
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 4Q2011

    Quarterly Update of Vendors and Products: Mixed Results for 2011

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    Each 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.
    Mar. 15, 2012
    Technologies
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  • Unintended Risks of Using Facebook

    Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!

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    Be 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.
    Mar. 8, 2012
    Strategies
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  • Attensity Analyze and Attensity Respond

    Multi-Channel Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction

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    Attensity Analyze and Attensity Respond provide multi-channel (social web and internal channel) monitoring, analysis, and interaction. Powerful, patented text analytics are the offerings’ key characteristic, strength, and differentiator.
    Mar. 1, 2012
    Technologies
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  • How Does Google’s Privacy Policy Affect You?

    It’s Time to Pay Attention to How Google Is Tracking Your Online Behavior

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    When Google announced a new unified Privacy Policy to go into effect on March 1, 2012, it caused people to stop and think about how much privacy they’re willing to trade for free search, email, YouTube, and other nifty services.
    Feb. 23, 2012
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  • What's Your Customer Cloud Strategy?

    Twelve Customer Requirements to Include as Your Firm Migrates to Cloud Computing

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    A “customer cloud” is the virtual project space where your customers can securely access, keep track of, and manage the assets they’ve bought from you as well as any related projects in which they’re engaged.
    Feb. 9, 2012
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  • RightNow Social Experience

    Monitoring, Analyzing, and Interacting in the Social Cloud

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    RightNow Social Experience is the social-service component of the RightNow CX suite. It delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and integrates seamlessly with the CX’s case, knowledge, and account management capabilities.
    Dec. 15, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 3Q2011

    3Q2011 Was a Quiet Quarter for Customer Service

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    3Q2011 was quiet quarter for customer service. Customer growth was mixed but mostly down, mixed financial performance resulted, there were few product or company announcements. The biggest company news was Oracle’s acquisition of RightNow.
    Dec. 8, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Salesforce.com Service Cloud Winter '12

    Cross-Channel Case, Knowledge, Account, and Social Network Management

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    Salesforce Service Cloud Winter ’12 addresses customer service requirements for B2B and B2C organizations of all sizes across many industries in all geographies; if you’re already a Salesforce Sales Cloud user, Service Cloud could be your best fit.
    Dec. 1, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Knova 8.0 from Consona

    Knowledge Management, Customer Service Process Support, and Analytic Functionality

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    Knova 8.0 is a strong customer service offering that provides case management and knowledge management capabilities across assisted-service, self-service, and social-service channels for on-premise or cloud deployment.
    Oct. 6, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 2Q2011

    A Mixed 2Q2011 for Customer Service

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    2Q2011 was a mixed quarter in customer service, mixed in customer growth, financial performance, products, and company activity.
    Sep. 15, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Key Role: SVP of Cross-Channel Customer Experience (or Equivalent)

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    What’s the one role that makes the most difference in a company’s ability to “make it easy for your customers to do business with you”? An SVP of customer experience (or equivalent).
    Jul. 28, 2011
    Strategies
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  • How Well Does Staples Help a Small Company "Manage My Stuff?"

    Customer Experience Audit of Staple’s Capabilities to Let Small B2B Customers Manage Their Relationship

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    Staples has done a great job of making it easy for customers. But how does it do in a scenario in supporting a small business customer’s account management needs as he tries to “manage his stuff?”
    Jul. 21, 2011
    Strategies
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  • How Well Does Amazon.com Let Me "Manage My Stuff?"

    Customer Experience Audit of Amazon.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Manage Their Relationship

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    Amazon.com is the role model for creating a great online customer experience. But how well does it do in helping loyal customers “manage their stuff.” In this customer experience audit, we see how Amazon does in a true-to-life customer scenario.
    Jul. 7, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Why Apple's iCloud Service Will Be Successful

    iCloud Service Provides Much-Needed Seamless Synchronization of Digital Media and Applications

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    Apple’s iCloud offering is misunderstood. It’s not a streaming audio/video service. It’s a “keep my life in synch across my devices” service.
    Jun. 30, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Customer Service Company and Product Update 3Q2010

    An Excellent 3Q2010 for Customer Service

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    3Q2010 was an excellent quarter across financial performance, product activity, and company activity for 11 leading customer service suppliers; eGain and Moxie Software earned Customers.com Customer Service Stars.
    Dec. 16, 2010
    Technologies
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  • IntelliResponse Answer Suite 6.0

    Delivering "One Right Answer" to Customers' Questions

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    IntelliResponse Answer Suite can deliver a single result, the “One Right Answer,” to the search queries that represent any and every customer service question; consider this offering as the front door for your customer service experience.
    Oct. 21, 2010
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