The growing trend towards insourcing marketing and transactional email is being driven by businesses that are looking for ways to improve their email programs, increase data security and lower costs. When evaluating whether it makes more sense to leverage an on-premise or outsourced solution, it's important to understand how the traditional arguments have changed.

Today, more than ever, the customer is at the center of business. Armed with more choice and ultimately more power, customers expect businesses to deliver entirely satisfying, customer-centric experiences throughout the sales cycle. Whether you sell to businesses or consumers, customers are accustomed to one-click purchasing, full mobile access, and social media-driven recommendations, and they are demanding a similar experience of all companies they do business with. With eSignature & Digital Transaction Management (DTM) solutions from DocuSign you can provide that experience, allowing customers to transact with you on their terms while reinforcing your modern reputation.

The customer experience is critical in today’s fast-paced, demanding world. With so many options at the buyer’s fingertips and the rise of social sharing media, one bad customer experience can haunt an organization. According to” The Forrester Wave™: Dynamic Case Management, Q1 2016” report, in order to improve customer experience, firms must tackle the incident process through smart handling of exceptions, applying analytics for context, and offering real-time and mobile interaction. Here is where dynamic case management (DCM) can be a competitive advantage and Forrester identified 14 of the most significant vendors across 21 criteria in this space with Pegasystems among vendors who lead the pack. Download this Forrester Wave report to see the full 21-criteria evaluation of the dynamic case management (DCM) market and gain insight into the 14 most significant software vendors in order to help enterprise architecture (EA) professi

With new technologies, new opportunities often emerge, especially in business. The advent of innovations, such as social media and mobile devices, is changing the ways businesses interact with customers and the ways in which customers desire to be engaged. Opportunities arising from the benefits of salesforce automation, business intelligence (BI), and customer relationship management (CRM) applications are providing new levels of insight, helping businesses acquire customers more efficiently and retain those customers longer. As a direct result, organizations that invest in better understanding potential customers are likely to see higher returns than those organizations that possess a more limited understanding of their customer base. Seeking the competitive advantage resulting from improved customer focus, IT organizations have increased investment in business intelligence and analytics and the underlying infrastructure to support those applications.

Your customers are demanding better answers, faster-and social media gives them a louder megaphone. Meanwhile, Management is pushing you to reduce support costs and increase team efficiency.Our panel will discuss practical advice and proven strategies for integrating Social into your organization's customer service ecosystem, followed by a live audience Q&A session.

Honda uses Adobe Social to effectively engage European fans of cars, motorcycles, robots, jets, and other inventive products through a single, coordinated effort

The customer experience is critical in today’s fast-paced, demanding world. With so many options at the buyer’s fingertips and the rise of social sharing media, one bad customer experience can haunt an organization. According to” The Forrester Wave™: Dynamic Case Management, Q1 2016” report, in order to improve customer experience, firms must tackle the incident process through smart handling of exceptions, applying analytics for context, and offering real-time and mobile interaction. Here is where dynamic case management (DCM) can be a competitive advantage and Forrester identified 14 of the most significant vendors across 21 criteria in this space with Pegasystems among vendors who lead the pack.

When IT organizations utilize social media, it can efficiently help more people inside and outside the data center quickly access more services and knowledge. Combined people's knowledge and good will and the essence of information technology service management (ITSM) can be more fully realized.

As social media use has grown, an urgent need has emerged to correlate the information generated through social data with existing consumer information, and integrate it with sophisticated data management systems. This white paper describes how organizations can blend social insights with more-traditional data in an integrated customer data hub to optimize social strategies and create outreach efforts, new products, and campaigns grounded in real-time, repeatable, automated, and scalable analysis.

Confused about how to get started with social customer service or how to take it to the next level? Oracle can help you address the challenges of this rapidly evolving service channel - and help you deliver social customer service that delights your customers. Join our webcast featuring Aphrodite Brinsmead, senior analyst at Ovum, and learn her best practices for social customer service.

Customers are embracing new technologies and they want to interact through a variety of applications, at any time and from any device. Many consumer facing organizations are racing to enable new interaction channels to innovate, grow their business and improve customer loyalty. As they expand online services and add mobile and social media interaction there is an increasing need to both secure and coordinate these activities. The key challenge is to deliver innovative new applications and services quickly and to provide an excellent customer experience across multiple channels.

Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.

Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.

Customers are embracing new technologies and they want to interact through a variety of applications, at any time and from any device. Many consumer facing organizations are racing to enable new interaction channels to innovate, grow their business and improve customer loyalty. As they expand online services and add mobile and social media interaction there is an increasing need to both secure and coordinate these activities. The key challenge is to deliver innovative new applications and services quickly and to provide an excellent customer experience across multiple channels.

During a data breach, social media can be a friend or your worst foe. Here’s how to develop a crisis management plan that utilizes social media.

Social media management software allows brands to embrace digital transformation efficiently. Find out how in this guide.

Read this editorial to learn about the challenges and opportunities ahead for energy companies, and find out how utilities can use analytics to improve satisfaction by gaining insight into consumption and billing patterns—as well as the products and services that interest customers most.

Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.

Customers are embracing new technologies and they want to interact through a variety of applications, at any time and from any device. Many consumer facing organizations are racing to enable new interaction channels to innovate, grow their business and improve customer loyalty. As they expand online services and add mobile and social media interaction there is an increasing need to both secure and coordinate these activities. The key challenge is to deliver innovative new applications and services quickly and to provide an excellent customer experience across multiple channels.

Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.

Customers are embracing new technologies and they want to interact through a variety of applications, at any time and from any device. Many consumer facing organizations are racing to enable new interaction channels to innovate, grow their business and improve customer loyalty. As they expand online services and add mobile and social media interaction there is an increasing need to both secure and coordinate these activities. The key challenge is to deliver innovative new applications and services quickly and to provide an excellent customer experience across multiple channels.

Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.

Customers are embracing new technologies and they want to interact through a variety of applications, at any time and from any device. Many consumer facing organizations are racing to enable new interaction channels to innovate, grow their business and improve customer loyalty. As they expand online services and add mobile and social media interaction there is an increasing need to both secure and coordinate these activities. The key challenge is to deliver innovative new applications and services quickly and to provide an excellent customer experience across multiple channels.

By now, we’re all aware of what a powerful force social media can be for a business — be it positive or negative. But how should your business address what’s happening in social media? Avaya believes you should do it in same way you take on other customer concerns — with your contact center.

Seven Trends Driving Effectiveness in the Contact Center