Online, Mobile & IT

  • What Customer-Centric Visionary Execs Are Doing in 2007

    Customer-Outcome-Driven Businesses, Disappearing Home Pages, and Other Trends

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    Want to know what’s on customer-centric execs’ minds? Here’s an overview of some of the topics discussed at Patty Seybold’s Spring 2007 Visionaries’ Meeting.
    May. 17, 2007
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  • High Technology Search and Navigation Test Drive

    Finding Specific Information about FAST ESP, Google Search Appliance, IBM OmniFind Edition and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

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    How well do search vendors do at delivering information to their customers? Check out our test drive of FAST, Google, IBM and Oracle.
    Apr. 19, 2007
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  • How to Get From Product 2.0 to BIZ 3.0

    Redeploy your Product-related Web 2.0 Services to Help Customers Reach Their Goals

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    Web 2.0 offers the ability to support each product lifecycle phase with Internet-enabled services. We call this approach: Product 2.0.
    Feb. 15, 2007
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  • Customer Portal Survey

    Key Insights into Adoption, Functionality, Governance, and Technology

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    We surveyed our community of readers, subscribers, and consulting clients to understand the adoption, functionality, governance and organization, and technology selection, usage, and management of their customer portals.
    Jan. 18, 2007
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  • Site Search Self-Assessment

    How Does Your Company’s Search Capability Stack Up?

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    If your organization can’t agree on whether your site search is adequate, use our self-assessment to shift from anecdote to analysis.
    Nov. 2, 2006
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  • Move Over Portals; Prepare for Scenario Nets!

    The Next E-Business Model: Task-Specific Cross-Company Workflows

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    We’ve invented a new e-business model. We call it Scenario Nets—interlinked Web sites that help you complete a complex task.
    Oct. 20, 2006
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  • What Differentiates the Search Experience?

    Philosophy and Search Management Make the Difference at Online Department Stores

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    Does site search differentiate the online customer experience? Evaluation of search at four department stores suggests that it does.
    Jul. 27, 2006
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  • Search Experience Metrics

    Key Indicators You Should Be Tracking for Customer Search Experience

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    A great search experience is the starting point for an acceptable customer experience. There are 2 metrics that will tell you how well your company performs against customer expectations.
    Jul. 6, 2006
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  • Seeker Experience Survey

    Is Search Getting Better?

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    Our survey of seeker experience and projects to improve findability indicate much is spent, but much is left to be done.
    Jun. 1, 2006
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  • What's on the Minds of Lead Customer-Centric Executives in 2006?

    Patty’s Visionaries Share Their Visions, Their Realities, and What’s Working for Them

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    Patty Seybold’s visionary customer-centric executives are engaging with customers in new ways to co-design better offerings and experiences.
    May. 25, 2006
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  • Customer Portals Evaluation Framework, Version 2

    How to Select the Best Portal Technology Platform for Your Customers

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    In this report, we describe version 2 of our framework for evaluating portal platforms for customer portals and explain how and why we’ve refined it.
    May. 18, 2006
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  • Observations from the Field: SOA

    Conversations with Architects and Technologists on the Hard Part, the Hype, and Zero Code

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    Each week, we interact with individuals from both enterprises and technology providers, on a broad range of topics. These interactions surface recurring themes and interesting insights. This report shares insights gleaned on SOA.
    May. 4, 2006
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  • Customer Portals Research Findings

    Refining Our Evaluation Framework

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    To match customer requirements, reflect product capabilities, and improve product comparisons, we have refined the evaluation criteria of our framework for customer portals. The refinements are presented in this report.
    May. 4, 2006
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  • Net Neutrality

    An Important Topic for National Conversation

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    US Congress is exploring revisions to the nation’s communications laws. One of the most important, and contested, issues under consideration is Net Neutrality. Read this report to learn about Net Neutrality and join the national conversation.
    Feb. 16, 2006
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  • Event-Driven Architecture Overview

    Event-Driven SOA Is Just Part of the EDA Story

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    While we are pleased to see increasing enterprise and vendor interest in the SOA-EDA connection, we are also concerned. Many SOA evangelists are only talking about event-driven SOA, ignoring event streams and CEP. For the full EDA story, read this.
    Feb. 2, 2006
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  • Concerns of Customer Visionaries in Q4 2005

    Visionary Customer-Centric Executives Are Tackling Next-Generation E-Business Challenges

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    Learn what’s top-of-mind for customer-centric e-business executives as they head into 2006. What lessons have they learned? What issues are they facing? What initiatives lie ahead?
    Dec. 15, 2005
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  • Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and Takeaways from Enterprise SOA Practitioners

    A Report from InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum

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    According to real-world practitioners, SOA is an architectural strategy, not a product-centric strategy. We couldn’t agree more! Read this report to get SOA journey insights from enterprise practitioners—as shared at InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum.
    Nov. 23, 2005
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  • A New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model

    SOA MM from Sonic Software, Systinet, AmberPoint, and BearingPoint Now Public

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    On October 27, 2005 a vendor consortium publicly released a new SOA Maturity Model. This model is important because it is business focused.
    Nov. 3, 2005
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  • Open Source Considerations

    Evaluation Criteria for Open Source Solutions

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    The inevitable has happened. Open source has moved all the way up the enterprise stack. No longer are enterprises contemplating if they should use open source, but rather, where to use it. This report offers considerations for your adoption decisions.
    Oct. 20, 2005
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  • The Vanilla Layer Cake Theory

    Using Service-Orientation for Non-Invasive Application Package Customization

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    Ever have application package modification problems? Ever create a surrounding ecosystem with direct dependencies on the package? Did you get locked in, or hit a dead end? Want a better way to implement packages? Read this architectural concept report.
    Oct. 6, 2005
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