WHITE PAPER - This IDC white paper discusses the role of user profile management in the telecom industry. Service providers' (SPs) efforts to manage, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led services.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Customer Data Management | Customer Profiles | Customer Service | Identity Management | Market Research | Software | Telecommunications Service Providers

WHITE PAPER - This document describes how Opus Research evaluates seven ways that firms can build a customer-centric organization and enhance the customer experience.
Posted: November 18, 2008 | Published: November 18, 2008


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | CRM Services | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Hardware | IVR | Marketing | SIP

WHITE PAPER - As customer care spans multiple modalities requiring real-time responses, "analytics" has become an all-purpose word that embraces monitoring and recording.
Posted: November 18, 2008 | Published: November 18, 2008


Topics:  Analytic Applications Software | Business Management | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | Dashboards | IVR | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper, Datamonitor focuses on nine key steps that can - and should - be taken by CSPs to improve standards by delivering outstanding service and achieving various objectives.
Posted: November 7, 2008 | Published: November 7, 2008


Topics:  Authorization | Capacity Planning | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | Customer Service Best Practices | Customer Support Software | Knowledge Management | SMBs | VPN

WHITE PAPER - This paper by Frost & Sullivan provides an overview of the FACTA Red Flag rule and delineates guidelines for compliance.
Posted: October 17, 2008 | Published: October 16, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Customer Data Management | Customer Privacy | Databases | Endpoint Security | Fraud Protection | Identity Theft | Regulatory Compliance | Security Standards

WHITE PAPER - Each month the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) issues its Phishing Intelligence Report. We invite you to review the reports for your own benefit, and you are welcome to reuse the information and distribute it.
Posted: October 17, 2008 | Published: October 16, 2008


Topics:  Customer Data Management | Data Security | Fraud Protection | Identity Theft | Malware | Online Financial Services | Phishing | SQL

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn six (6) best practices you can follow to prevent enterprise data loss in order to protect revenue, limit customer attrition, and meet government regulatory requirements.
Posted: October 17, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Customer Data Management | Customer Loyalty | Data Security | Database Security | Enterprise Resource Management | Regulatory Compliance | Security Threats

WHITE PAPER - This whitepapr explains how real customer insight is possible with a category of software known as Master Data Management [MDM].
Posted: October 13, 2008 | Published: October 13, 2008


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | ERP | Marketing | Master Data Management | Sales | Sales and Marketing Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides core principles companies can use to help them select a CRM system that each sales user feels was built just for them.
Posted: October 10, 2008 | Published: October 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Development | CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | Dashboards | Microsoft Outlook | ROI | Sales | Security

WHITE PAPER - VoC is an approach that can guide enterprises in meeting the spectrum of sales, marketing, customer support, brand and reputation management, product service design, and quality demands.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Service | White Papers

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the challenges of managing seasonal demand, getting a good forecast, planning production & procurement and managing the fulfillment process.
Posted: October 7, 2008 | Published: October 7, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | Inventory Management | Inventory Management Software | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - This white paper reviews the foundational building blocks needed to achieve fast payback from investing in demand generation.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  B2B | Campaign Management Software | CRM Analytics | CRM Software | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Demographic Profiles | Lead Generation | Marketing Information Systems | Productivity | Profiling | Sales Force Automation | Sales Representatives

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses, Business Change Management, Data Change Management, and Cultural Change Management. These are the three main categories of change management that accompany any Master Data Management (MDM) effort.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Customer Data Management | Data Integration | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Knowledge Management | Master Data Management | Policy-Based Network Management

WHITE PAPER - The customer-driven age is upon us and succeeding in this environment requires a new set of goals and a new set of tools. Learn how CRM is the catalyst to transform organizations, empower employees and capitalize on new market opportunities.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 19, 2008


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Customer Service | Customer Support Software | Data Mining | Data Mining Software | Enterprise

WHITE PAPER - This paper will outlines how sales enablement is a central component of a successful customer relationship management strategy and distinguishes sales enablement from traditional sales force automation.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | Enterprise | Lotus Notes | Marketing | Productivity | Sales

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper examines the 10 most important considerations associated with CRM selection and discusses how both on-demand and on-premise deployments impact upon them.
Posted: August 14, 2008 | Published: August 14, 2008


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Service | Disaster Recovery | Security | SMBs | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses CA's commitment to improving the business value of CA Datacom through continued investment to sustain the solution's performance and availability advantages.
Posted: August 6, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Customer Data Management | Database Management | OLTP | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper examines the value of call monitoring and call archiving. It introduces a robust new call monitoring, recording and archiving solution ECHO.
Posted: July 11, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2006


Topics:  Call Center Management | Call Center Software | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Service | Health Care Industry | Insurance Industry | Marketing

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how Teleformix's ECHO™ digital recording solution integrates seamlessly with Avaya's telephony systems, providing your company with a crucial customer service tool - quality assurance recording.
Posted: July 11, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Call Center Management | Call Center Software | CRM | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Satisfaction | Customer Service Best Practices | Ethernet Networks | Quality Control | Telephony Services | VLAN | VoIP

WHITE PAPER - This IDC white paper explores the benefits of employing a vertical CRM application based on industry best practices. Learn challenges, opportunities and benefits of vertical applications as well as advice for industry-specific solutions.
Posted: June 2, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Deployment | CRM Software | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Customer Data Management Software | Customer Service Best Practices | Customer Support Software | Oracle (Product) | Reporting Software | Sales Contact Management Software | Sales Force Automation | Sales Information Systems | Vendor Selection

WHITE PAPER - Avaya Intelligent Customer Routing improves customer service and acts as the bridge between the past and the future while addressing key management and IT needs by providing a more flexible and adaptable architecture.
Posted: June 2, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Customer Data Management | Customer Interaction Services | Customer Service | Routing | SIP | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, learn how to implement and enforce enterprise-wide Master Data Management solutions.
Posted: May 13, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Master Data Management | Metadata | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - This paper offers valuable insights and considerations for corporations and other organizations seeking to implement a Master Data Management strategy.
Posted: May 9, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Customer Data Management | Data Governance | Data Management Software | Data Stewardship | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | ERP Software | Master Data Management | Software Implementation

WHITE PAPER - Despite the myth of "untouchability" there are many opportunities for tuning commercial packaged application performance. This whitepaper discusses opportunities for tuning commercially available packaged applications.
Posted: March 31, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2005


Topics:  Customer Data Management | Customer Relationship Management | Data Storage | Database Administrators | ERP Application | IT Infrastructure | Licensing | OLTP | SLA | SQL | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will show how three core marketing strategies must be deployed in order to address current and future business challenges, and to continue the journey toward the one-to-one marketing future.
Posted: March 11, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  CRM Analytics | Customer Data Management | Customer Service | Customers | Marketing | Real-time Analytics