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  • VP of Customer Intelligence

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    The first priority of your VP of customer intelligence should be to act as the custodian for the information that your customers care about.
    Nov. 4, 2004
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  • Content Management Framework

    Our Revised Criteria for Evaluating and Comparing Enterprise Management Systems

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    This report provides a framework with which to evaluate Enterprise Content Management Systems.
    Nov. 4, 2004
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  • Kanisa Application Suite 6.1

    Process-Oriented Navigation and Search of Content to Answer Customers’ Questions and Solve their Problems

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    The Kanisa Application Suite can help you support activities within the plan, explore, and use phases of the customer lifecycle across the Web and contact center touchpoints. This report evaluates the Kanisa Application Suite against our evaluation frame
    Oct. 28, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Online Meeting Platforms: Best Seamless Phone and Web Experience

    Which Providers Offer the Best Seamless Phone and Web Experience?

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    This Bulls-Eye is our evaluation of the Integrated Web/Teleconferencing capabilities provided by the Online Meeting services and products from Convoq, Genesys, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Raindance, and WebEx.
    Oct. 28, 2004
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  • Self-Service and Support Search Solution Comparison Matrix

    EasyAsk, Endeca, FAST, InQuira, iPhrase, Knova, and Primus Compared to Our Evaluation Framework

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    This report presents a side-by-side comparison of seven solutions against 23 criteria identified by our Self-Service and Support Search Solution Evaluation Framework.
    Oct. 28, 2004
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  • Online Meeting Services Comparison Matrix

    Comparing Services and Products from Convoq, Genesys Conferencing, IBM, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle, Raindance, and WebEx against Our Evaluation Framework

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    In this report, we summarize our framework-based evaluations of eight online meeting products in the form of a matrix.
    Oct. 21, 2004
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  • Primus Enterprise Search V.4 Self-Service and Support Search Solution

    Classification and Context

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    Primus Enterprise Search stacks up very well against our self-service and support search solution evaluation framework.
    Oct. 21, 2004
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  • Creating a Blended Architectural Portfolio

    Candidate Strategies for Your Blended Architecture

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    The new Architecture strategies—services oriented, process based, event driven, Grid enhanced, or real time/right time—are each compelling on their own, but have you thought about bringing them together? Have you though how powerful a blend could be?
    Oct. 14, 2004
    Strategies
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  • Cross-Channel, Cross-Lifecycle Operational Requirements

    What Types of Products Do You Need to Deliver a Comprehensive Customer Experience?

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    This report presents the requirements for the operational capabilities of cross-channel, cross-lifecycle customer service products; product types that address those requirements; and examples of those product types. Because no product or product suite ad
    Oct. 14, 2004
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  • Strategic Planning for Search

    Where We Think You’ll Want to Take Search

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    The range of problems search engines will address, and the value of findability, will increase steadily through 2007. An acceptable level of findability requires some new investments in technology and information management tasks--plus leadership.
    Oct. 14, 2004
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  • How to Think about Search

    Findability Factors Include Technology and Tasks

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    There are a lot of people who think search is terrible. We believe that the dissatisfaction reflects a focus on the wrong problem. The problem is not search. The problem is findability.
    Oct. 7, 2004
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  • Lotus Web Conferencing 6.5.1

    A Strong Internal Meeting Platform That Needs to Connect Better to the Rest of the World

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    Lotus Web Conferencing provides a strong set of collaboration features for enterprise online meetings.
    Oct. 7, 2004
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  • Sr. IT Architect for Cross-Channel Customer Experience

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    In order to deliver a great cross-channel experience to customers and partners, you’ll need to have a seasoned IT architect who is responsible for designing and evolving your application Architecture, services, and middleware to be customer adaptive.
    Oct. 7, 2004
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  • Comergent E-Business System 6.4

    Marketing and Selling Complex Products Directly to Customers and Indirectly through Partners

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    The Comergent E-Business System can help you deliver a customer experience across all the phases of the customer lifecycle and across Web and contact center touchpoints, either directly to end customers or indirectly through a multitier partner channel.
    Sep. 30, 2004
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  • Microsoft's Roadmap for Windows

    Getting to Longhorn without Detours

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    Microsoft’s latest shift in plans for the next version of its Windows desktop and server operating systems reflects the challenge the company faces in developing and executing plans. Customer planning suffers a setback each time Microsoft announces these
    Sep. 30, 2004
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  • Banks Measure What Matters to Customers—and Improve Service

    Leading Practitioners Now Measure the Quality of Customer Experience

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    Banks and other financial services firms are focusing on the Quality of Customer Experience for critical customer scenarios. Here are a couple of examples of how banks are measuring and improving what matters to their prospects and customers.
    Sep. 23, 2004
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  • Pervasive Instant Messaging

    Moving toward an Asymmetric Contextual Model for Business IM

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    With IM and telephony converging, the challenges and opportunities are increasing for effective real-time collaboration.
    Sep. 23, 2004
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  • Putting E-Learning in the Context of Customers Scenarios

    How Organizing Instructional Content for Just-in-Time Learning Enhances Customer Support

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    Whether they are customers, business partners, or employees, adult learners in business situations seek solutions to their work-related issues.
    Sep. 23, 2004
    Strategies
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  • FAST Data Search V 4.0 Self-Service and Support Search Solution

    Pipelines, Information Management, and Dynamic Navigation

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    FAST Data Search stacks up very well against our self-service and support solution evaluation framework.
    Sep. 16, 2004
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  • Framework for Evaluating Cross-Channel, Cross-Lifecycle Customer Service Products

    How to Evaluate Solutions That Support a Great End-to-End Customer Experience

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    This report presents our framework for evaluating cross-channel, cross-lifecycle customer service products.
    Sep. 9, 2004
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