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The Magic Quadrant reflects the substantial difference among software suppliers' customer support applications. Great diligence must be shown by IT leaders working on customer service projects. Weaknesses remain in providing cross-channel persistence of experience and embedded real-time analytics.

IT leaders working on customer service projects must display an incredible amount of diligence. An organization’s CRM system has become its lifeline to customers, but as customer needs evolve so has the requirements of CRM. According to Gartner, today’s CRM solution must include a laundry list of capabilities outside its traditional core functionality including: native mobile support of the vendor's customer service and support business applications; real-time analytics; industry-specific functionality and workflow; context mining of voice and text; scalable cloud-based systems; social media engagement; suggested next agent action; multimodal capabilities, such as chat within mobile self-service; and even co-browsing. Gartner surveyed the CRM field and evaluated each vendor including Pegasystems.

Dell’s approach to PC Lifecycle management is designed to help customers make the change from IT maintenance to innovation all while controlling their PC infrastructure costs. With this eGuide IT professionals will learn how to deploy, secure, and support PCs with unparalleled efficiency leveraging Dell’s industry-leading hardware, services, and security solutions. Access the eGuide from Dell and Intel® and you will learn: • Why IT needs to take a different approach PC lifecycle management • The four critical stages of the PC lifecycle (Plan, Deploy, Manage, and Retire) • How to partner with Dell to strategically migrate to Windows 10 • What solutions can help in each phase to reduce costs and increase IT productivity • The latest security solutions to protect data and employees

Primary internet connections fail for a variety of reasons: severe weather, downed poles and lines or simply heavier than usual network congestion. Business continuity solutions provide businesses with back-up internet access via a cellular network when primary Wide Area Network (WAN) connections fail or are over-loaded. These solutions enable businesses to: Maintain seamless, uninterrupted access to the internet Process credit card transactions Access to important information stored online This paper will provide an overview of business continuity solutions, examples of in-use scenarios and a path to adoption in an easy to understand and digestible way. Download now.

In the global market for customer service software, Zendesk is once again recognized as a leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center. Every year, Gartner conducts a thorough analysis of service providers in the customer service and support application space. We believe the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center report provides valuable information for business leaders who seek technology solutions for interacting and engaging with their customers. Zendesk can again be found in the 2018 report’s Leader quadrant, which we consider a reflection of the success of our 125,000 customers, including enterprise clients like Airbnb, Tesco, and the University of Tennessee. The past year alone has included a number of significant milestones for us, including the release of AI-enhanced features for self-service and surpassing $500 million run rate in revenue. As our customer base continues to grow, we strive to be a dynamic vendor for bus

Companies in all industries can benefit from a master data management program, advises MDM expert Anne Marie Smith. Learn how to enhance yours.

With the growing demand of business for tighter communication and collaboration with external parties such as business partners and customers, IT has to provide the technical foundation for such integration. Web Access Management and Identity Federation are key technologies for that evolution. They enable organizations to manage access both from and to external systems, including cloud services, in a consistent way. Organizations have to move forward towards strategic approaches to enabling that integration, in support of the Extended and Connected Enterprise.

Graph databases have the power to see deeply into real-time data relationships and make it easy to use relationship patterns for instant insight into large data sets. From IoT to networking to customer 360 to solving business problems with multi-model support, the power of graph can never be understated. Read this white paper to learn the uses cases for graph databases and how graph databases work.

The Internet of Things is growing fast: By 2025, IoT devices will transmit an estimated 90 zettabytes of data to their intended targets, according to IDC. Armed with information, businesses can revolutionise everything from fraud detection to customer service. But first, they need an architecture that supports real-time analytics so they can gain actionable insights from their IoT data. Read the complete report sponsored by Google Cloud, and learn how to mitigate key IoT-related challenges.

Forrester Consulting was commissioned to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Cylance's advanced threat protection solution, CylancePROTECT®, and its deployment and configuration services, ThreatZero™. The study aims to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of CylancePROTECT and ThreatZero on their organizations, which will improve customer success with advanced cybersecurity and antivirus protection solutions. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with an investment in Cylance, Forrester interviewed the Chief Information Security Officer for a Large State County Government, who has used the solutions for over a year. Cylance provides a new-generation, predictive, cybersecurity, and malware prevention solution that leverages artificial intelligence to prevent malware from executing on endpoints in real time. This is usually implemented with ThreatZero, which is a continuous professional service program rendered by Cylance for users of CylancePROTECT. ThreatZero guides through the planning, implementation, integration, and ongoing optimization of the solution. This often includes end user education, training, and support to totally eliminate endpoint threats and incidents. With CylancePROTECT and ThreatZero, the organization was able to reduce security breaches to almost zero, catching malware before it ever gained access to public records. Relative to their previous endpoint protection, this significantly reduced costs from remediation/reimaging and incidence response. Additionally, IT and security employees’ productivity were boosted. Read more in the full TEI report.

IBM® InfoSphere® Big Match for Hadoop helps you analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured customer data to gain deeper customer insights. It can enable fast, efficient linking of data from multiple sources to provide complete and accurate customer information—without the risks of moving data from source to source. The solution supports platforms running Apache Hadoop such as IBM Open Platform, IBM BigInsights, Hortonworks and Cloudera.

As organizations develop next-generation applications for the digital era, many are using cognitive computing ushered in by IBM Watson® technology. Cognitive applications can learn and react to customer preferences, and then use that information to support capabilities such as confidence-weighted outcomes with data transparency, systematic learning and natural language processing.

ServiceNow commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying ServiceNow Customer Service Management throughout their customer support organization. This study provides a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact of investing in ServiceNow. Download this whitepaper to learn more about how Epicor has transformed with ServiceNow Customer Service Management.

Bluecore helped evo: Move from batch and blast to 1:1 email marketing Replace one-size-fits-all promotional emails with automated emails that feature targeted content and send based on customers taking certain actions or changes to products. Scale the email program and results without scaling the team Introduce 15 high performing email campaigns and expand the email program reach to support a growing business without adding new headcount. Add new value for shoppers and the marketing team Launch a series of emails that proactively notify customers about changes to products with which they’ve engaged, including price and stock changes, while simultaneously adding a new opportunity to capture email addresses.

Learn how customers are improving security, reducing downtime, simplifying operations, and saving money by switching to Oracle Linux support.