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Challenging the economic downturn | 2009-11-01 | Vodafone |
| HOW CAN BUSINESSES MAXIMISE CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) TO CONTAIN COSTS AND IMPROVE SERVICES? This Vodafone white paper looks at how careful investment in CRM can underpin a strategy for protecting business and sustaining growth through the downturn
Tags: Customer Management, Customer Management, Customer Management |
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CRM, ERP, BI, and IT Investment - Where Do You Find the Business Benefit? | 2009-10-22 | R3Now.com |
| Most companies want to use CRM applications as a way to "Supercharge" their sales forces. They want to gain some advantage with customer retention and acquisition, to manage the sales pipeline and to have better market insight. But few companies realize these goals. After going through some of the academic studies and literature about CRM implementation there is evidence to suggest that some companies see some limited benefit from their CRM implementations, but overall they are not happy.
Tags: Enterprise Planning |
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Promoting Growth through Incentive Compensation Management | 2009-10-13 | Varicent |
| Efforts to motivate behavior in a complex business environment lead to complex sales compensation plans. While many of these plans have met success, some well-intentioned plans can lead to unexpected outcomes. Adopting a sophisticated sales compensation management solution can provide visibility into and control over sales compensation plans and help executives measure the cost of sales and manage their companies' sales performance. Download to find out how technology tools can increase visibility and control into your organizations' sales compensation.
Tags: Customer Management, Customer Management, Customer Management, Business Functions |
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Aster nCluster In-Database MapReduce: Deriving Deep Insights from Large Datasets | 2009-10-02 | Aster Data |
| A lack of expressive techniques to transform and analyze massive data volumes in organizations has led to costly workarounds in data warehousing. One of the first to face the challenge of analyzing petabyte scale data, Google pioneered a software framework called MapReduce for high speed processing of large amounts of both structured and unstructured data. This white paper examines a data analytics tool that brings together the expressive flexibility and performance of the MapReduce framework with the rich functionality and familiarity of ordinary SQL, enabling developers and analysts to do more with business data.
Tags: Customer Management, Enterprise Planning, Data Tools, Business Functions |
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Beyond Reporting: Requirements for Large-Scale Analytics | 2009-10-02 | Aster Data |
| As organizations seek to gain greater value from their data warehousing investments, they invariably look to push the envelope of their front-end environment and supplement reporting with more powerful analytics. Providing adequate support for the analysts and analytic applications is challenging. This white paper provides a comparison of basic reporting vs analytics; an overview of the components, benefits and challenges of analytical tools; the technology requirements for analytical platforms; and four best practices to implement when optimizing your analytics environment.
Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Data Tools, Business Functions |
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Optimizing Sales Messaging: The Impact of What You Say on Sales Performace | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| Is what you say as important as what you sell?
Download the CSO Insights research report to view the results of their recent survey and find out how creating the right sales messages can directly affect your ROI. Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Internet and Web, Business Functions |
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Selling Smarter in 2009 and Beyond with Remote Selling | 2009-10-01 | Citrix Online |
| Discover how to increase sales efficiency and productivity with fewer resources.
This new IDC executive brief explores the use of Web conferencing to facilitate the sales process. From customer prospecting to retention, online meetings can enable instant product demos, ad hoc contract collaboration, product training and much more. Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management, Business Functions, Office Suites |
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Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer | 2009-10-01 | Oracle |
| This white paper examines six challenges, or imperatives, that every chief sales officer faces in the current environment, and provides recommendations on how to most effectively address and convert these obstacles into opportunities and competitive advantage. Whether it's the challenge of driving growth in a difficult economy, increasing sales capacity with the same or fewer resources, or embarking on a sales transformation, enterprising chief sales officers can deploy proven methodologies and technologies to increase sales effectiveness and drive business success. While one of these imperatives will likely resonate more than any other given your organization's specific scenario, we hope you benefit from all of the advice that follows.
Tags: Customer Management, Data Tools, Internet and Web, Business Functions |
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The Executive Guide to CRM Architecture: Why CRM Flexibility Will Impact Your Success | 2009-09-21 | Microsoft |
| An organization's ability to respond quickly to changing customer demands and competitive landscapes is paramount not only to its success, but to its survival. Finding a CRM solution that meets your organization's needs todayÂbut that can also scale and change as your company growsÂpresents both a technical and business challenge. Making the right choice can not only avert implementation disaster, but can also help you secure your organization's competitive edge.
Tags: Enterprise Planning, Customer Management, Business Functions, IT Budgeting |
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Turning customer interaction into profitable relationships | 2009-09-08 | Pitney Bowes |
| Effective customer communications boost customer loyalty, ensure brand and regulatory compliance, reduce environmental impact and help control a range of costs - through IT maintenance, printing, call centre operations and postage. However, most organisations take a fragmented approach to managing enterprise customer communications using outdated technologies which are not consistent across the range of media channels people use today. Read the report from analyst Quocirca to learn why and how the development of a CCM strategy transforms the impact of customer communications at every customer touch point, controlling cost, driving operational efficiencies and building customer loyalty.
Tags: Workflow Management, Data Infrastructure, Business Functions, Business Functions |
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