Customer Service & Support

  • Agilent’s Virtuous Circle of Personalization

    Customer Experience, Content Strategy, and Marketing Automation Create a Machine that Drives Customer Engagement

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    Agilent offers lessons on achieving a highly personalized experience for customers of all stripes at all phases of engagement.
    Aug. 7, 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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  • Improving Wretched Customer Service

    Beyond Giving CSRs Authority—Giving Them the Ammunition to Provide Great Service

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    What makes well-intentioned customer service so bad? Martha Brooke of Interaction Metrics offers four common mistakes, and we look at how to empower CSRs to avoid these mistakes.
    Jul. 3, 2013
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 1Q2013

    1Q2013 Was a Good Quarter for Customer Service

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    1Q2013 was a good quarter for customer service. Customer growth was the highlight, and it drove good financial performance resulted. Product and company activity were high. M&A was big news as Nuance acquired VirtuOz.
    May. 30, 2013
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  • IntelliResponse Virtual Agent

    Virtual Agents that Are Fast and Easy to Deploy and that Deliver One Right Answer to Customers’ Questions

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    IntelliResponse VA’s virtual agents deliver accurate answers on web, contact center, mobile, and social channels. They’re multilingual, and they support speech on mobile devices. Most significantly, they’re fast and easy to deploy. Read our evaluation.
    May. 10, 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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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 4Q2012

    4Q2012 Was a Very Good Quarter for Customer Service

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    4Q2012 was a very good quarter for customer service. Customer growth was the driver. Very good financial performance resulted. Product activity was up. M&A was big news as Nuance acquired VirtuOz.
    Mar. 6, 2013
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  • Why Alaska Airlines Considers Mobile Development a Core Competency

    Speed Up Improvements in Customer Experience through Mobile

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    With Curtis Kopf, Managing Director, AlaskaAir.com, and Customer Innovation at Alaska Airlines, we look at how he and his team are mastering agile development and making mobile technology a core competency.
    Feb. 21, 2013
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  • Apple and/or Verizon: How Should Partners Provide Customer Support?

    What Each Did Right and What Needs Improvement When Helping Shared Customers in Need

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    Providers who together satisfy customer scenarios are part of a customer ecosystem. And the customer's experience should be seamless, as shown in this story.
    Feb. 14, 2013
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  • Utility Customer Experiences: Stark Contrasts in Dealing with NStar and National Grid

    What Each Did Right and What Needs Improvement When Helping Customers in Need

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    Read the best (and worst) practices demonstrated by NStar and National Grid as they help customers deal with a repair.
    Jan. 31, 2013
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  • 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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  • Amazon’s Next Moves

    It’s a Customer Ecosystem Poised to Become an Increasingly Important Part of Our Lives

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    Amazon isn’t “just” an online retailer; it’s a vibrant and layered customer ecosystem designed to help you get things done faster and cheaper. Amazon phones will bring added convenience. Amazon’s ads will be more relevant than Google’s or Facebook’s.
    Jan. 3, 2013
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 3Q2012

    3Q2012 Was a Quiet Quarter for Customer Service

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    3Q2012 was a mixed quarter for customer service--mixed across customers, products, company activity and fi-nancial performance: two suppliers had very good customer growth; four had good financial performance; two new products; two M&A announcements.
    Dec. 13, 2012
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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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  • The Emotional Rollercoaster within Customer Scenarios

    Most Customer Scenarios Bring Out Mixed Customer Emotions; Are You Prepared to Respond to Them?

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    What emotions are customers feeling as they get things done? How can you anticipate and respond to customers’ negative emotions?
    Nov. 1, 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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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 2Q2012

    2Q2012 Was Another Mixed Quarter for Customer Service

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    2Q2012 was another mixed quarter for customer service--customer growth and financial performance were mostly flat or down.
    Sep. 6, 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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  • Don’t Blindside Your Customers

    Bankofamerica.com Neglects to Warn Customers of a Glitch that Requires Customer Attention

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    When there is an emergency service interruption to your customer experience, it’s important to have processes in place to remedy the situation. Bank of America missed that opportunity and was deluged with calls from frustrated and annoyed customers.
    Jul. 26, 2012
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  • When Do You Need an App for That?

    Do Mobile Apps Make It Easier for Customers to Do Business with You?

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    When do you need a mobile app for customer service and when is it better to provide mobile-friendly customer self-service portals or web sites?
    Jul. 6, 2012
    Strategies
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