Communities, Innovation, & Social Media

  • Salesforce.com Service Cloud Winter ’13

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

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    Salesforce CRM Winter ’13 offers a broad and deep array of customer service capabilities anchored by the Ser-vice Cloud. Read our in-depth evaluation.
    Jan. 24, 2013
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  • Next IT ActiveAgent

    Virtual Agents that Deliver Sophisticated Answers to Complex Questions

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    Next IT ActiveAgent’s virtual agents can deliver sophisticated answers to complex questions on web, mobile, and social channels. Read our evaluation.
    Nov. 29, 2012
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  • Creative Virtual V-Person

    An Offering from a Virtual Assisted-Service Pioneer

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    Creative 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.
    Sep. 20, 2012
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  • VirtuOz Intelligent Virtual Agent

    Powerful and Flexible Cross-Channel, Cross-Lifecycle Virtual Assisted-Service

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    VirtuOz 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.
    Jul. 26, 2012
    Technologies
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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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  • 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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  • Salesforce Radian6

    Social Network Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction

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    Radian6 is both a company—a division of Salesforce.com—and a social service platform that delivers social listening and interaction capabilities and, through the Radian6 Social Hub, integrates with Salesforce Service Cloud case and account management.
    Jan. 26, 2012
    Technologies
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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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  • 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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  • Build Community Around "My Stuff"

    How Will Online Communities and Social Networks Evolve?

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    Online customer support communities and social networks need to be integrated into the tools that customers use to manage their stuff.
    Nov. 10, 2011
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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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  • RightNow CX May 2011

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

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    RightNow CX May 2011 is the current release of the CRM Suite from RightNow. Its customer service capabilities comprise facilities for case, knowledge, and account management. Its support for process-oriented assisted-service is its strongest feature.
    Jun. 30, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Online Community Platform Company and Product Update 1H2010

    A Solid Period of Stability and Hiring

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    The first half of 2010 was a good stretch for the 12 companies on our watch list. Many saw steady, if not increased, customer acquisition. Hiring was strong (and remains so), and product development continued at a rapid pace.ion Available
    Sep. 2, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Lithium Social CRM Suite

    On-Demand Platform for Supporting Customer Communities

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    Lithium Technologies’ Social CRM platform is an impressive set of SaaS applications interconnected via search, ratings and rankings, and many other integrated components. If your customer base is sizable enough, we recommend Lithium for your short list.
    Nov. 19, 2009
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  • How Citrix Evolved Its Online Community of Customer Advisors

    How to Recruit and Manage a Private Customer Community—Patty’s Visionaries' Interviews' Series

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    Andrea Davidowitz tells the story of how and why she launched a private B2B online community of advisors in 2007 and what she has learned about running and managing a private customer community. Andrea manages strategic customer programs at Citrix.
    Aug. 6, 2009
    Strategies
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  • How Customer-Centric Visionaries Make Information Valuable

    Make Information Actionable and Connect People to People

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    Visionaries—ebusiness leaders—take content very seriously. They don't just post it; they make it multi-dimensional and actionable.
    Jun. 2, 2009
    Strategies
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