Self-Service & Assisted Service

  • 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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  • Is Sears.com Strong Enough to Help Save Sears?

    Customer Experience Audit of Sears.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Find and Buy What They Want and Manage Their Relationships

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    Customer Experience Audit of Sears.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Find and Buy What They Want and Manage Their Relationships
    Jan. 19, 2012
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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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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 3Q2011

    3Q2011 Was a Quiet Quarter for Customer Service

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    3Q2011 was quiet quarter for customer service. Customer growth was mixed but mostly down, mixed financial performance resulted, there were few product or company announcements. The biggest company news was Oracle’s acquisition of RightNow.
    Dec. 8, 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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  • Knova 8.0 from Consona

    Knowledge Management, Customer Service Process Support, and Analytic Functionality

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    Knova 8.0 is a strong customer service offering that provides case management and knowledge management capabilities across assisted-service, self-service, and social-service channels for on-premise or cloud deployment.
    Oct. 6, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Recommendation Evaluation Framework, Version 2

    Evaluating Solutions for Personalization and Recommendations

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    Recommendation solutions automate and personalize suggestions. Here are the key criteria you should use for selecting a recommendation solution.
    Sep. 22, 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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  • Key Role: SVP of Cross-Channel Customer Experience (or Equivalent)

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

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    What’s the one role that makes the most difference in a company’s ability to “make it easy for your customers to do business with you”? An SVP of customer experience (or equivalent).
    Jul. 28, 2011
    Strategies
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  • How Well Does Staples Help a Small Company "Manage My Stuff?"

    Customer Experience Audit of Staple’s Capabilities to Let Small B2B Customers Manage Their Relationship

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    Staples has done a great job of making it easy for customers. But how does it do in a scenario in supporting a small business customer’s account management needs as he tries to “manage his stuff?”
    Jul. 21, 2011
    Strategies
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  • How Well Does Amazon.com Let Me "Manage My Stuff?"

    Customer Experience Audit of Amazon.com’s Capabilities to Let Customers Manage Their Relationship

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    Amazon.com is the role model for creating a great online customer experience. But how well does it do in helping loyal customers “manage their stuff.” In this customer experience audit, we see how Amazon does in a true-to-life customer scenario.
    Jul. 7, 2011
    Strategies
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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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  • Why Apple's iCloud Service Will Be Successful

    iCloud Service Provides Much-Needed Seamless Synchronization of Digital Media and Applications

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    Apple’s iCloud offering is misunderstood. It’s not a streaming audio/video service. It’s a “keep my life in synch across my devices” service.
    Jun. 30, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 1Q2011

    A Good 1Q2011 for Customer Service

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    1Q2011 was a good quarter in customer service across customer growth, financial performance, products, and company activity. Three of our suppliers—Attensity Group, KANA, and Salesforce.com—earned Customers.com Customer Service Stars for the quarter.
    Jun. 9, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Providing Consistent Customer Support

    A Great Experience Shouldn’t Depend on the Luck of the Draw as It Does with Dell's Support Processes

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    Dell’s current support processes don’t appear to provide consistent answers nor one-touch problem resolution. How well does your company address customers’ moments of truth when resolving problems?
    May. 12, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Customer Service Supplier and Product Update 4Q2010

    A Good 4Q2010 and an Excellent 2010 for Customer Service

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    4Q2010 was a very good quarter for customer service, 2010 was an excellent year; see how 10 customer service suppliers performed.
    Mar. 10, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Moxie's Knowledgebase

    Excellent Knowledge Management, UI Content Management, and Analytics

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    Moxie Software Knowledgebase, formerly nGenera Knowledgebase, is a widely used and well proven offering deployable on premise or in the cloud. Winter Release 2010 is the current release that improves search and the UI and adds the Moxie brand.
    Mar. 3, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Why Quora Is Useful (and Addictive)

    Crowdsourced Q&A Community Builds a Knowledge Repository

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    Why is Quora a useful Q&A site for businesspeople and professionals and how should you use it?
    Feb. 3, 2011
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  • Consona Knowledge Driven Support 1.0

    Combining Case Management and Knowledge Management

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    Consona KDS 1.0, the topic of this evaluation, combines case management and knowledge management capabilities to provide product support for high-tech organizations.
    Jan. 20, 2011
    Technologies
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