Communities, Innovation, & Social Media

  • Desk.com from Salesforce.com

    Customer Service for Small to Midsize Organizations

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    Desk.com is Salesforce.com's cloud-based customer service offering for very small to medium-sized businesses. Its strengths include case management and reporting capabilities, as well as channel and mobile device support. Desk.com’s knowledge model and knowledge management services support multiple languages very well.
    Jun. 15, 2016
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  • Freshdesk

    Case Management, Knowledge Management, and Social Customer Service for SMBs

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    Freshdesk packages attractive and high value cross-channel case management, knowledge management, social customer service, and chat capabilities suitable for small, mid-sized, and large organizations. It competes with Zendesk and with Salesforce.com's Desk.com.
    Mar. 11, 2016
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  • Salesforce Service Cloud

    Capabilities for Self-Service, Assisted-Service, and Social Customer Service

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    Salesforce Service Cloud provides a broad and deep collection of customer service capabilities across self-service, assisted-service, and social customer service channels, earning an excellent evaluation. Read the specifics in our 50-page evaluation.
    Dec. 19, 2014
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  • Framework for Evaluating Customer Service Software

    Delivering Answers and Solutions; Creating and Resolving Cases

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    Use this new version of our Framework for Evaluating Customer Service Software Products to produce actionable evaluations, comparisons, and selection. It’s adaptable to every type of customer service application.
    Oct. 15, 2014
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  • Desk.com from Salesforce.com

    Customer Service for Small and Growing Businesses

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    Desk.com, from Salesforce.com, provides case, account, and knowledge management capabilities across assisted-service, self-service, and social customer service channels for very-small, small, and mid-sized businesses. Read our evaluation in this report.
    Aug. 22, 2014
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  • The CaringBridge Customer Ecosystem

    Millions of People and Hundreds of Companies Align around Patients’ Health Journeys

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    CaringBridge.org’s apps and tools help to provide emotional support during a health crisis. Using an online journal and guest book, each patient can provide updates for friends and family to track.
    Aug. 8, 2014
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  • IBM Watson Engagement Advisor

    Addressing Customer Support Using Cognitive Technology

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    Through its use of cognitive technology, IBM Watson Engagement Advisor is an innovative and visionary virtual assisted-service offering, an offering that can (almost) think and learn.
    Jul. 10, 2014
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  • Clarabridge 6.1

    Social Customer Service with Powerful Monitoring and Filtering, Deep Analysis, and Alert-Driven Customer Interaction

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    Clarabridge Analyze and Clarabridge Act monitor and analyze customer conversations on internal and social channels and provide mechanisms to interact with customers. Filtering, analysis, and classification are the strengths. Read our in-depth evaluation.
    May. 9, 2014
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  • Personalized Answers to Customers’ Questions

    Creative Virtual V-Person Is the First Virtual Agent to Provide Personalization

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    V-Person is Creative Virtual’s virtual agent offering. It can deliver personalized answers to customers’ questions on web, mobile (text and voice), social, and IVR channels.
    Apr. 24, 2014
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  • Nina Web

    Flexible and Accurate Answers to Customers’ Questions

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    Nina Web is Nuance’s virtual agent offering for the web, complementing Nina Mobile and Nina IVR and leveraging Nuance’s Natural Language Understanding technology to analyze and match customers’ question to knowledgebase answers.
    Jan. 29, 2014
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 3Q2013

    Review of Ten Social Monitoring, Case Management, Self-Service, and Virtual Agent Suppliers

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    3Q2013 was a good quarter for customer service. Customer growth and financial performance were up. Product activity was light. Four companies expanded into new markets. Moxie and Salesforce.com earned Customer Service Stars for 3Q2013.
    Dec. 5, 2013
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  • How Valuable and Sustainable Is Twitter’s Customer Ecosystem?

    What Is a Twitter End-Customer Worth to Investors?

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    Twitter is more than a company. It’s a customer ecosystem with seven layers of different types of players—each benefitting from their use of Twitter’s social media platform.
    Nov. 22, 2013
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  • Oracle Service Cloud Social Experience

    Built-In Social Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction

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    Oracle Service Cloud Social Experience provides social customer service by monitoring and analyzing social posts and interacting with social posters. Social Experience is an integral component of Oracle Service Cloud in packaging, pricing, and functionality. See the details in the full report.
    Sep. 27, 2013
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  • Four Reasons Why Customers Prefer Twitter for Customer Service

    Quick Response, Fast Action, Public Shame, & Instant Updates

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    Twitter is becoming the preferred customer service channel for many people. But many companies aren’t paying attention. Providing good customer service on Twitter could differentiate your firm and reduce support costs.
    Sep. 19, 2013
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  • Salesforce Radian6: An Insight Ecosystem

    The Social Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction Application of Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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    Radian6 is the Salesforce Marketing Cloud component that does social monitoring, analysis, and interaction. It’s easy to learn and use; its analytics are powerful and flexible; and it integrates tightly with Salesforce Service Cloud.
    Aug. 1, 2013
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  • DuckDuckGo Respects Our Privacy

    Fast, Simple Search with an Open Customer-Friendly Ecosystem

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    People who are concerned about online privacy are switching to search engine DuckDuckGo. Users are pleasantly surprised by, and engaged in, its rapid evolution.
    Jun. 28, 2013
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  • Customer Co-Design for Elder Independence

    Approach for Elders to Age in Their Homes

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    Dr. Allan Teel's new book  tells the remarkable story of an innovative “virtual assisted-living” program that was co-designed with 40 elders in Maine and is now rolling out across the country. 
    Jun. 13, 2013
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  • Tackling a Wicked Problem: Water Issues!

    How the Delta Dialogues Project Is Using Dialogue Mapping to Build Shared Understanding

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    The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta Conservancy wanted to engage key stakeholders in planning the future of California’s fresh water supply. They used CogNexus Group’s Dialogue Mapping™ to build shared understanding among polarized players.
    May. 30, 2013
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  • How to Address “Wicked Problems”

    Use Dialogue Mapping to Build a Shared Understanding and Evolve a Group’s Thinking

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    Jeff Conklin’s book, Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems, is a “must read” for people in groups grappling with intractable issues and/or for people who are designing products or solutions. Here’s why.
    May. 23, 2013
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  • Clarabridge Analyze, Collaborate, and Engage

    Voice of the Customer Monitoring, Analysis, and Interaction

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    Clarabridge's Analyze, Collaborate, and Engage monitor and analyze customer conversations on internal and social channels. NLP-based monitoring and analysis are the key strengths. Read our evaluation.
    Mar. 28, 2013
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