customer relations

Your service level agreement (SLA) sets the tone for your relationship with a new client by outlining your responsibilities, your client’s responsibilities, and the terms and timelines you will both work under. When you’re clear on expectations, you’ll be able to measure and manage the user experience in a meaningful way and position yourself as a trusted advisor. The better your agreement, the more you and your clients benefit.

To address evolving customer needs, drive business growth, and stay nimble in the face of rapid change, companies everywhere are embarking on bold and ambitious digital transformation journeys. To reap the full benefits of the digital economy, a dual approach is needed. Companies need to dramatically simplify their business processes and, at the same time, use their expertise to build stronger and deeper relationships with customers. To achieve this, many have chosen to rely on SAP’s intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. Designed to replace earlier generation ERP systems, SAP has SAP S/4HANA, the next generation of Intelligent ERP, allowing companies to embrace the Digital Reinvention era more fully. For companies wishing to adopt SAP S/4HANA — regardless of their industry or where they stand in their implementation journey — this paper provides critical insight into:

2019 may be the year where a strong CIO-CMO relationship moves from aspiration to imperative. The notion that marketing and IT should aim to strategically align themselves is not ground-breaking. But the reality of the CIO-CMO relationship is more complex, the route toward its success harder to traverse. When large enterprises are faced with digital transformation and customer-facing initiatives; too often, IT and marketing fail to collaborate well enough to create a competitive advantage. Or even enough to keep up with competitors. This whitepaper takes a deep dive into the CIO-CMO relationship. It was created to help marketing and IT decision makers learn how, together, they can make a realistic and immediate impact on the customer journey.

This report highlights the strategic value of a next generation web content management system integrated with lead scoring, email marketing, customer relationship management, and web analytics. The report links the technology and practices of Best-in-Class organizations to engage customers, provide personalized experiences and manage the lead lifecycle.

The response to possible bank card fraud is one of the most important factors affecting the relationship that customers have with their bank. For customer-centric financial institutions who issue millions of bank cards, any instance of possible fraud is both a business risk to be managed and an opportunity to strengthen customer relationships.

Learn how a deep understanding of touchpoints - and the ways they drive customers closer to you (or farther away) - can improve acquisition, retention and loyalty, create better customer experiences, strengthen relationships and boost your bottom line. (Plus 5 steps for leveraging touchpoints to profit from better customer relationships.)

See how the landscape of customer experience is being altered forever, as touchpoints continue to drive shifts in distribution, feedback and marketing channel control. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how making your touchpoints stronger, faster and smarter today will mean increased profits and stronger market positions tomorrow. (Plus 7 specific steps any company can take to improve customer experience today.)

Who among us has not recoiled before the horror of a terrible Interactive Voice Response (IVR) experience? IVR technology was created to save businesses money, but it has mutated into a timesucking, customer experience-crushing monster! If connecting with a customer in this day of customer experience is the goal, there’s a better way! Contain the IVR before it kills another customer relationship. Can we bring the technology to heel and bend it to our will? And can we stop its rampage before artificial intelligence makes it too powerful to be stopped?

Modern networks are vast and complex, spanning the globe to make information available to everyone within an organization and have begun to encompass new areas of technology. The Internet has unlocked tremendous new capabilities and technologies, but these innovations require persistent and reliable network connectivity. Salesforce’s© Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cloud product for example is now widely used by businesses for its significantly lower cost and overhead when compared to on-premise predecessors. The cloud is driving an insatiable demand for faster, more reliable network access, and for IT organizations the pressure is on.

Modern networks are vast and complex, spanning the globe to make information available to everyone within an organization and have begun to encompass new areas of technology. The Internet has unlocked tremendous new capabilities and technologies, but these innovations require persistent and reliable network connectivity. Salesforce’s© Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cloud product for example is now widely used by businesses for its significantly lower cost and overhead when compared to on-premise predecessors. The cloud is driving an insatiable demand for faster, more reliable network access, and for IT organizations the pressure is on.

Be always on with your customers; wherever they are. With Zendesk Chat, your customer agents can engage with customers over websites, mobile apps, and popular messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, and LINE. That means you can build relationships with customers in the places they prefer.

Digital transformation (DX) is a must for midsize firms (those with 100 to 999 employees) to thrive in the digital economy. DX enables firms to increase competitive advantage through initiatives such as automating business processes, creating greater operational efficiencies, building deeper customer relationships, and creating new revenue streams based on technology-enabled products and services. DX is a journey, and it starts with firms embracing an IT-centric vision that guides a data-driven, analytics-first strategy. The outcome of DX initiatives depends on the ability of a firm to efficiently leverage people (talent), process, platforms, and governance to meet the firm’s business objectives.

Web application and DDoS attacks hit enterprises without warning or reason. Most Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks require little skill to launch with attackers can simply rent resources from DDoS-for-hire sites at a low cost.. In comparison, DDoS attacks typically result in: • Operational disruption • Loss of confidential data • Lost user productivity • Reputational harm • Damage to partner and customer relations • Lost revenue Depending on your industry, that could add up to tens of thousands of dollars in damage – and in some cases it could be millions. Only 2% of organizations said their web applications had not been compromised in the past 12 months – 98% said they had.

In today’s globalized business environment, the need to build strong relationships with partners, suppliers, internal teams, investors and customers is more important than ever. High-quality video conference calls enable you to communicate as effectively as actually being there in person, helping you to build the engaging relationships needed for success in business.

Get this eBook now to learn: - How to engage with your customers in an ultra-connected world - How to make your customer engagement operations easy and efficient - Why it’s time for an all-in-one cloud contact center solution

"Differentiate your organization through customer engagement Improving customer experiences has replaced operational efficiency gains as the top objective in customer care executives’ agendas. This Aberdeen report details how “best-in-class” firms are achieving greater customer retention and annual growth as a result. Discover more in the report now >"

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) serves as the clinical arm for research and treatment studies for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington Medicine, and Seattle Children’s. The organization’s outsourced IT service desk operated adequately, but a desire for financial savings, enriched customer relationships, and improved HIPAA compliance drove SCCA to seek out another solution.

The Connected Customer is an individual who is intimately connected to the data, outcomes, decisions, and staff associated with any relationship to an organization. This intensely personal connection is not just a matter of the most recent transaction, but represents a combination of connected data, connected analytics, and collaborative decisions associated with improving the customer’s relationship with the organization over time. In this report, Blue Hill explores the key traits associated with supporting the Connected Customer through the Internet of Things, and provides guidance on why the Internet of Things will be essential across the general business landscape.

This RSR custom research report explores the impact of omnichannel methods on merchandising, marketing and the supply chain; specifically, what analytical capabilities address the challenges that omnichannel selling and fulfillment pose for retailers. Consumers today routinely begin their shopping journeys online, but complete their purchases in nearby stores, in their “home” stores or delivered directly to their doors. Retail analytics enables organizations to capture data from their customers' journeys. Retailers that successfully deliver relevant omnichannel experiences while gaining a more sophisticated understanding of demand (where and how it is initiated) will enhance their brands’ value and create compelling and profitable customer relationships.

"Differentiate your organization through customer engagement Improving customer experiences has replaced operational efficiency gains as the top objective in customer care executives’ agendas. This Aberdeen report details how “best-in-class” firms are achieving greater customer retention and annual growth as a result. Discover more in the report now >"

Enterprises are leveraging advancements in what IDC calls “3rd Platform” technologies — cloud, Big Data, mobility, and social — to create new business opportunities and gain competitive advantage. These trends are putting more pressure on IT organizations to transform their datacenter operations to better support business initiatives aimed at reducing costs, increasing revenue, and strengthening customer relationships. This has driven increased demand for converged or integrated systems that provide the tools needed to reduce capital costs, improve operational efficiencies and, ultimately, increase agility within the datacenter.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms have been around for more than a decade, but they are no longer just for big enterprises selling expensive technology. Now companies of all sizes and industries are enjoying the power of CRM systems to improve sales effectiveness and customer loyalty. The key to this new wave of adoption are the many valuable add-ons and integrations, like DocuSign, that can greatly augment the user experience. This ebook explores ways to improve your CRM productivity and usability.

Marketing is moving toward a new kind of success, one that depends on truly knowing the customer. Throughout the industry, this focus is proving to be the path to better customer relationships and business growth.

Want to drive up your bid-to-win ratio? The top five percent of professional services organizations win more than two out of every three bids. Their sales and services teams are better aligned too. Customer Relationship management (CRM) has long played a key role in driving sales and services excellence, but it’s no longer enough – welcome to the age of opportunity management. Download this eGuide to better understand how to win more business with accurate proposals based on past project success.

"Customer relationships begin with trust. When customers entrust your organization with their sensitive financial and personal information, not only do they expect you to keep it safe, but they also demand the same fast, convenient online experiences they’ve become accustomed to over web and mobile devices. This new e-book provides guidance on how financial institutions can meet and exceed these expectations, while also reaping bottom-line rewards, by mastering security, trust, and digital experience. You’ll learn about: - What makes your new millennial customers tick - How to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving digital market - Real-world takeaways and success stories"