Customer Service White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Call centres have been constantly evolving since the last third of the twentieth century. This evolution will continue as innovative information technology and shifting forces of competition drive call centre transformation. Customer interaction has become an important source of differentiation for organisations. Learn more in this white paper.

Posted: 20 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: Today, the need to connect with customers efficiently and effectively is more important than ever. The foundation of these communications is a complete and accurate customer record. This paper describes the validation requirements, opportunities and best practices to increase organizational efficiencies relative to enterprise address validation.

Posted: 13 Sep 2010 | Published: 13 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: CVE is a predictive, adaptive approach to linking front and back office functions through the prism of advanced business intelligence and analytics. Read this paper to learn how to link strategy and operations with CVE for better customer loyalty and margins.

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 | Published: 02 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how SAP for Banking solutions, which encompass the SAP® CRM application, encourage agility and customer centricity in today’s demanding market. By seamlessly connecting front- and back-office tasks, they can provide a superior customer experience and stronger top-line growth.

Posted: 02 Sep 2010 | Published: 02 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Case management is an area in which many government agencies can benefit by using new tools and approaches. By reading this White Paper, learn how to unify information, processes and people to provide better, faster services and programs.

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents the main differences between integrated and unified contact centers, and gives five reasons why it is imperative for contact centers to adapt a unified solution. Read on to learn how adopting such a solution can increase productivity, decrease costs, and enhance the customer experience, thereby increasing customer loyalty.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: UC can increase revenue and enhance customer relationships all while reducing costs, but developing a UC strategy can seem like a daunting task. In light of this, this paper outlines 7 things organizations should consider as they begin to develop a UC strategy. Read on to learn some helpful hints and strategies to ensure a successful UC deployment.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Understanding how to manage many different types of back-office tasks in the most consistent and efficient manner is a perplexing challenge. This paper will describe how automated workforce optimization is the solution. Continue reading to learn how to improve the customer experience while decreasing required staffing through predictive modeling.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Customer support has long been a business mainstay. Yet, the business impact of support is seldom measured - despite the influence of support on higher revenue, customer satisfaction and increased productivity. This new ServiceXRG white paper explores the importance of quantifying the impact of support on your business.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we discuss eight IT-friendly software traits that minimize risk, maximize ROI, and encourage innovation. Although the focus of this paper is on contact center and web customer service software, the discussion is broad enough to be a valuable guide for any technology investment.

Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 06 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) launched a research program in April 2009 to determine the attitudes and opinions of C-level executives with regard to the use and value of business analytics. This paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 07 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how your midsize organization can build a comprehensive mobile strategy and stay head of the competition.

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 | Published: 05 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper identifies seven levels of claims automation and provides a roadmap that can be followed to enhance claims processing for insurance companies worldwide.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Borderless Networks, a Cisco® next-generation architecture for agile delivery of services and applications, delivers a new workspace experience, connecting anyone, anywhere, using any device, to any resource: securely, reliably, and seamlessly. Read this paper to learn more about the Cisco Borderless Networks architecture.

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 | Published: 23 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Through a case study with Pan-American, this white paper examines how insurers can generate measurable progress toward these goals by treating document driven business process automation as a strategic initiative at the C-level.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Outsourcing Center and Wipro performed a survey that aimed to gauge how banking institutions are doing with their customer experience initiatives. While not a complete picture of how these financial institutions are progressing with their customer experience efforts, survey results point to some general trends and beliefs in this important area.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how deploying unified communications (UC) in conjunction with a mobility solution can increase employee productivity and improve customer service by enabling workers and groups to more easily collaborate from disparate locations.

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Published: 03 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers today is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff. Read this paper to learn five strategies used by successful SMBs.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Methods for capturing customer attention and loyalty may have changed over the years, but the basic DNA of business has not - a focus on establishing new customer relationships and retaining existing ones. This paper provides both a business & technology insight into the credit card customer service workflow.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 12 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: As the second installment in The Customer Innovation Series, this paper describes why and how Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) is a critical component in solving the problem of enhancing customer-driven innovation.

Posted: 07 May 2009 | Published: 31 May 2007

WHITE PAPER: Web 2.0. Collaborative computing. Social media. And now Social CRM. These terms are used interchangeably, and often, to describe the massive transformation taking place across organizations today. What strategies and tools do the newest CRM solutions provide to leverage this new reality? Read this white paper to learn more about Social CRM.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how many executives are beginning to understand that cutting cost by outsourcing call center operations isn't always the best solution. Learn how "cheaper" often comes at the expense of "better".

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Process-centric IT is, first and foremost, a way for the IT organization to build applications that will deliver greater flexibility and agility to the business-enabling high performance.

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Routers and switches are the building blocks for all business communications from data to voice and video to wireless access.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009