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Social Business - Patterns in achieving social business success
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: How can your business become more social? View this resource to learn mroe about the best practices that have emerged and other social business patterns.
Posted: 17 Jul 2013 | Published: 17 Jul 2013

IBM

IBM Social Business Adoption QuickStart
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Companies are investing in social business software to enhance knowledge exchange and sharing, streamline their operations and improve their response to evolving market demands. Consult this white paper to find out how to implement social business in the most effective way.
Posted: 17 Jul 2013 | Published: 17 Jul 2013

IBM

Developing a Road Map to an Exceptional Web Experience
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: When it comes to web experiences, customers have high expectations. Consult this resource to learn how you can provide innovative, high-value user experience solutions to satisfy your customers. It explains how to deliver resources that draw from user experience and knowledge.
Posted: 16 Jul 2013 | Published: 16 Jul 2013

IBM

Becoming a Social Business: Social Business Enterprise Strategy Accelerator
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The way people interact and form relationships is changing, social business is the way of the future. This resource explains more about the opportunities that social business provides. It discusses how to go about adopting social media for both external and internal purposes, read on to learn more tips on transitioning to the social enterprise.
Posted: 16 Jul 2013 | Published: 16 Jul 2013

IBM

2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center
sponsored by Salesforce
WHITE PAPER: Salesforce has been recognized by Gartner as a leader in this report for the 8th year in a row.In the age of the customer, nothing is more important than customer service. Service Cloud customers agree.
Posted: 08 Jul 2013 | Published: 13 May 2013

Salesforce

Social Intelligence Approaches to Support Four Core Customer Scenarios
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: To get the most value from the wealth of customer data available, businesses have to adapt to new technologies, processes, and strategies. In this helpful resource, discover how to leverage social intelligence to achieve profit-delivering customer management components, and how to integrate these new tools into your CRM environment.
Posted: 28 Jun 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Seven Trends Driving Effectiveness in the Contact Center
sponsored by Avaya
WHITE PAPER: Customers want to use social media, video, instant messaging and more to contact you - and they want to do it quickly. In this resource, check out seven key trends that are driving effectiveness in the contact center.
Posted: 31 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

Avaya

Social analytics: Finding opportunity in chaos
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Today, all organisations are engaged in social media. Enterprises can no longer escape the need to monitor and analyse social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and other news outlets. Enterprise need to adjust to this change quickly or they risk falling behind.
Posted: 08 May 2013 | Published: 08 May 2013

IBM

CyberAgent translates blog user insights into a more engaging experience
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn how Japan's largest blog service provider, CyberAgent, found a way to create a new level of engagement and loyalty among its blog readers. By developing an analytics framework that enabled a new kind of insight into blogging preferences and behavior.
Posted: 29 Apr 2013 | Published: 29 Apr 2013

IBM

Oracle Mobile and Social Service: The Next Step in IAM
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
WHITE PAPER: As cloud computing, mobile computing and social computing infiltrate the enterprise, an "identity explosion" is occurring – one which requires a new IAM strategy. This whitepaper explores the next steps in IAM and how to keep your enterprise safe.
Posted: 24 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Advanced Identity Tracking for Social Networking Sites
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This resource details the methods used to assist social networking sites in identifying online predators and thwarting potentially serious attacks. View now to learn more!
Posted: 22 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 May 2012

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Beyond Business as Usual: The Mega Shift Toward Social Communications
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Discover how integrating social software with communications is transforming the modern workplace, maximizing the potential of human capital, and generating value for businesses worldwide.
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 | Published: 02 Oct 2012

IBM

Anticipate, engage and deliver exceptional web experiences
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn more about how social business is growing. It is becoming a major component of business strategies and reflects the way businesses manage both customers and information. Learn how you can help your customers and employees with better social business by reading this resource now.
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 | Published: 09 Apr 2013

IBM

Introducing Social Business for the Mid-Market
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Consult this resource to learn more about the insight Aberdeen research discovered by studying 229 mid-sized companies. They looked to uncover if there were specific characteristics that made companies more interested in using social business.
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 | Published: 09 Apr 2013

IBM

The Future of Email and Applications is Social
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The workplace is evolving – is your email application keeping pace? This resource details why the future of email and applications is social and details the many benefits a socially relevant email experience provides.
Posted: 05 Apr 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

IBM

Making the Most of Customer Data Using CRM Analytics
sponsored by TechTarget Customer Experience
WHITE PAPER: Explore this expert e-book for advice on choosing a CRM platform that suits your needs, and learn how to construct a well-defined plan to put social media analytics into a broader enterprise context.
Posted: 02 Apr 2013 | Published: 02 Apr 2013

TechTarget Customer Experience

3-2-1 Contact the Call Center
sponsored by TechTarget Customer Experience
WHITE PAPER: Contact centers can't live in the past. This three-part handbook offers insight into how contact centers can modernize an agent's tools to meet the demands and needs of customers whose mobile and social empowerment has put companies in the virtual hot seat.
Posted: 31 Jan 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

TechTarget Customer Experience

Social Recruiting Guide: How to Effectively Use Social Networks and Avoid Legal Risks
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Social networking sites are some of the most powerful tools available to recruiters today. If you're not sure where to start with a social recruiting strategy, this paper will outline why social recruiting is becoming an imperative for companies today, what considerations you need to be aware of, and what first steps you can take.
Posted: 03 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

Oracle Corporation

The Anywhere Worker: Essential Tools to Keep Teams Connected
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes an in-depth look at the changing role of IT departments in the face of the demand to connect, collaborate and communicate with remote and in-office workers in a similar - if not near exact - fashion. Read now to learn about the best practices and tools available to make this a reality.
Posted: 12 Sep 2012 | Published: 12 Sep 2012

Citrix

The Social Business: Advent of a new age
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the why organizations need to become social businesses today. Read on to learn how your business can become social through crafting the right blueprint relying on networks, social and real-time collaboration, mobility and integration, how to deepen your customer relationships and the benefits associated with it, and much more.
Posted: 30 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2011

IBM

Thumbs Up! Customer Engagement for a New Generation A Benchmark Study of the Impact of Social Media on Customer Service
sponsored by DMG Consulting
WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews a study of the impact of social media on customer service and how to plan and implement social media for maximum effectiveness within your business.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

DMG Consulting

 CIO Strategies for Consumerization
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: New technology and the expanding role of the Internet are forever changing social relationships, management philosophies, and business models around the world. Access this white paper for insights into current mobile computing trends and recommendations for making the most out of these trends in the enterprise.
Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 23 Dec 2011

Dell, Inc. and Intel®

Using IBM Social Business to Take Your Business Relationships to the Next Level
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This publication provides information about IBM Social Business and includes details about the business need and the value of transformation to a social business. It presents a high-level Social Business component diagram, highlights key capabilities, and includes customer case studies that exemplify how some of these capabilities can be applied.
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

IBM

Social Business in the Cloud
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Deepen your customer relationships. Drive operational effectiveness. Optimize your workforce. Read this white paper and see how using LotusLive services to become a social business can help your organization simplify, speed up and enhance interactions in practically all areas of the business.
Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

IBM

Executive Brief Digital Transformation: Creating New Business Models Where Digital Meets Physical
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As businesses embrace the digital revolution, they're rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what’s newly possible for competitive differentiation. This report is designed to provide senior executives with analysis and insight on how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation.
Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 17 Nov 2011

IBM