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  • Apple’s Lessons for the Rest of Us

    Customer-Led Innovation

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    Apple’s iPod strategy is paying off brilliantly. The popular iPod, with its iTunes legal music library, has created a halo effect for the rest of Apple’s computer business.
    Jan. 27, 2005
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  • QCE Resolutions

    Focus on What Matters Most to Your Customers

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    Are you interested in providing or improving your customer experience in 2005? Then start by focusing on these five areas.
    Jan. 20, 2005
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  • How the Blogging Community Accelerated Tsunami Relief

    Blogs and Wikis Are Providing Instant Visibility, Information-Sharing, and Coordination

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    Disaster relief in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit the shores of Southeast Asia and Africa has been accelerated by the rapid response of the blogging community.
    Jan. 6, 2005
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  • Cross-Channel Shopping Shines in the 2004 Holiday Season

    Search Plays a Big Role in Steering Sales to Both Niche and Mainstream Retailers

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    More buyers used cross-channel shopping in 2004—searching online and buying in the store, or browsing in the store and buying online. Search and product findability were keys to success.
    Jan. 6, 2005
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  • The Evolution of Service-Oriented Architecture

    From Integration to Business Scenario Development

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    In this report, we share our view of the service-oriented architecture evolution, starting with services for simple integration and working our way to services for business scenario development.
    Jan. 6, 2005
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  • Designing a Fluid Enterprise Using an Adaptive, Customer-Centric IT Architecture

    Creating a Blended IT Architectural Portfolio to Support Your Customer-Centric Business

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    This report demonstrates our architecture blending process on four of the new architecture strategies in order to achieve enterprise fluidity for our fictional customer-adaptive business, Digits Undercover.
    Dec. 9, 2004
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  • Tagging Content for Meaning

    How WGBH and HP Are Using Metadata to Incorporate Unstructured Information into Operational Activities and Customer Scenarios

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    Tagging content (or, in technical terms, adding descriptive metadata to data) started out as way to dynamically format the same text differently for different purposes. Two pioneering organizations, WGBH and HP, have significant initiatives underway.
    Dec. 9, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bulls-Eye: Self-Service and Support Search

    Which Providers Offer the Best Controls for Managing the Search Experience? Featuring EasyAsk, Endeca, FAST, InQuira, iPhrase, Knova, and Primus

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    This Bulls-Eye is our ranking of the search management and tuning capabilities of self-service and support search products from seven vendors: EasyAsk, Endeca, FAST, InQuira, iPhrase, Knova, and Primus.
    Dec. 2, 2004
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  • ServiceWare Enterprise 5.7

    Answer Questions and Solve Problems with Content, Metadata, and Self-Learning Search

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    ServiceWare Enterprise can help your customers understand your products; find answers to questions about your products; and diagnose, report, and fix problems with your products across self-service and assisted-service touchpoints. This report examines S
    Dec. 2, 2004
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  • The Future for Open Text

    How Livelink Will Deliver Content and Foster Collaboration among Task Teams

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    Open Text provides a wide range of capabilities for managing content and fostering team-oriented collaboration within intranets, based on its flagship product suite, Livelink.
    Dec. 2, 2004
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  • Interwoven at the Crossroads

    Prospects for Weaving Together Disparate Product Capabilities into an Integrated ECM Platform Offering

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    Interwoven is an enterprise content management vendor at the crossroads. This month, at its recent analyst conference, Interwoven identified both its current product plans and its future directions.
    Nov. 23, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Self-Service and Support Search Solutions: Best Retrieval and Results Management

    Which Providers Offer the Best Retrieval and Results Management? Featuring EasyAsk, Endeca, FAST, InQuira, iPhrase, Knova, and Primus

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    This Bull’s-Eye is our ranking of the retrieval and results management capabilities of self-service and support search products from seven vendors: EasyAsk, Endeca, FAST, InQuira, iPhrase, Knova, and Primus.
    Nov. 23, 2004
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  • Looking for Business Architects?

    Check Out Your Ebusiness Leader

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    Ebusiness visionaries are the true business architects of the 21st century. They invest now in the core services that will be required to both deliver immediate value to customers and partners and support the way the business will operate in the future.
    Nov. 23, 2004
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  • Building Infrastructure with Integrated Stacks

    Tradeoffs are Key

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    Designing and building the software infrastructure necessary to support customer-facing applications is complex and expensive. An emerging trend for software suppliers to provide complete, well-integrated stacks may help reduce complexity and cost.
    Nov. 18, 2004
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  • E.piphany Advisor

    Products That Can Improve Your Customer Experience

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    Epiphany Advisor is a suite of three products, specialized implementations of those products for retail financial services and communications companies, and tightly packaged integrations of the products with PeopleSoft and Siebel CRM applications. You ca
    Nov. 18, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Online Meeting Platforms: Best Set of Real-Time Collaborative Tools

    Which Providers Offer the Best Set of Real-Time Collaborative Tools? Featuring Convoq, Genesys, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Raindance, and WebEx

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    This Bull’s-Eye is our evaluation of the collaboration tools provided by the online meeting services and products from Convoq, Genesys, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Raindance, and WebEx.
    Nov. 18, 2004
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  • Astoria Structured Document Management System 4.3

    Using Content Components to Assemble Structured Documents

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    Astoria Software delivers the Astoria Structured Document Management System, a product designed to improve accuracy, increase productivity, and accelerate the time required to publish structured documents in electronic or hard-copy formats.
    Nov. 10, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Online Meeting Platforms: Best Tools to Schedule and Prepare Collaborative Meetings

    Which Providers Offer the Best Tools to Schedule and Prepare Collaborative Meetings?

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    This Bulls-Eye is our evaluation of the scheduling and preparation capabilities provided by the Online Meeting services and products from Convoq, Genesys, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Raindance, and WebEx.
    Nov. 10, 2004
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  • Why It's Hard to Prioritize IT Initiatives around End-Customer Impacting Issues

    Current Disconnects between Business and IT; Suggestions for Bridging the Gaps

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    Are you having trouble getting customer-centric priorities at the top of your IT shopping list? You're not alone. There are increased tensions brewing between the business and IT for lots of good reasons. See if your organization looks like the picture w
    Nov. 10, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Online Meeting Platforms: Best Online Meeting Convocation Capabilities

    Which Providers Offer the Best Online Meeting Convocation Capabilities?

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    This Bull’s-Eye is our evaluation of the ad hoc meeting convocation capabilities provided by the online meeting services and products from Convoq, Genesys, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Raindance, and WebEx.
    Nov. 4, 2004
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