By R "Ray" Wang on January 7, 2014
Verint Adds to Vovici and Contact Center Assets To Expand Customer Engagement Offerings On January 6th, Melville, NY based Verint® Systems announced a $514M intent to acquire Sunnyvale, CA, KANA Software. Verint is a software vendor with a core in analytical software. Verint’s core offerings provide enterprise intelligence and security intelligence. The acquisition is significant […]
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By Chris Selland on February 24, 2011
I’ve been writing about Klout and the broader topic of social scoring for a while now, but after last week’s piece in the Boston Globe, the level of consumer awareness of the site has stepped up dramatically. What is Klout? In short, it’s an algorithm that assigns anyone (or anything) owning a Twitter handle with […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Contact Center, CRM, influence, influencers, Klout, marketing, PeerIndex, RightNow Technologies, salesforce.com, SCRM, Social influence, Twitter
By Chris Selland on January 11, 2011
Klout’s announcement of an $8.5M round is a clear sign that social ‘scoring’ – and the development and utilization of effective and accurate ‘influence’ metrics in order to more effectively support and service customers – is an idea whose time has come.
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Contact Center, CRM, influencers, Klout, PeerIndex, SCRM, social networking, Twitter |
