By Paul Greenberg on January 8, 2015
What is the state of customer engagement? What kind of framework needs to be created to help businesses achieve that engagement? It starts here with the 2015 agenda for customer engagement.
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By Michael Fauscette on July 7, 2014
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By Michael Fauscette on May 29, 2014
Way back in 2011 we published a maturity model for the adoption of social technologies and the resulting cultural and process changes that those technologies could enable. Quite a lot has happened since then of course but happily some of the fundamental business impacts from the use of social technologies hasn’t. We do understand them […]
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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 Michael Fauscette on December 20, 2013
Here’s another installment from my video recording session with the eCornell team, this time looking at customer experience and meeting customer expectations. I’ve written and talked about this for some time, so none of it should be particularly new. In…
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By Esteban Kolsky on March 6, 2013
Yep, you read that right. A snap. Simple. Uncomplicated. Two bits and change. a Drachma of work (well, probably the wrong analogy). And you don’t even need to buy, invest, change, or even do something different. You got all it takes, most of what it needs (you may need some software – but i am […]
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By Michael Fauscette on January 4, 2013
As we move into 2013 it’s time to take a look back and see what major events shaped and changed enterprise software in 2012. It was an active year, particularly from the standpoint of continued consolidation in the enterprise software…
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 1, 2012
So, it’s about seven years after social media first began to be used for business purposes. It’s been a long journey for some and shorter, more intense journey for others. What have we learned so far? What is the state of the industry…
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By Michael Fauscette on October 31, 2012
It’s turning into a big news week for enterprise social network (ESN) software, first Yammer’s 1st user conference, YamJam12, and then a very interesting announcement from SAP. SAP has, in the past at least, not really exhibited a great deal…
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