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2012 Guide to an Insightfull Customer-Centric Organization

by Coveo

Make 2012 the year of Insight for your organization. Learn the ten essential steps to tap into the power of Insight from social and enterprise unstructured data. Bring consolidated and correlated views of information about the customer from sales, service and engineering to each department to enable more Insightfull operations. Customers are better served in this manner, better products are created, and more are sold.

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Case Study : Netezza Unifies Knowledge Access For Improved Customer Service Outcomes

by Kate Leggett, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research

IBM Netezza, a provider of data warehouse and analytics appliances, needed to tame its knowledge problem. Knowledge resided in multiple sources: a customer call ticket system, a knowledge base, personal email, shared files, a software bug tracking system, and a product engineering wiki. Customer support agents wanted a more comprehensive view of all available knowledge that could help better resolve customer issues in a timely way. Learn how Netezza uses Coveo to create a 360 degree view of information to overcome their customer service operations and knowledge access challenges.

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White Paper: Transforming Data into Actionable Knowledge

by Co-Authored by TSIA VP Technology Research John Ragsdale and Coveo

Today’s customer support operations are awash with data. Support executives know there is value in the data and metrics they collect, but identifying the value using legacy tools often proves frustrating, if not impossible. In this report, learn how the ability to consolidate and correlate data from multiple sources can help you detect customer trends and identify new operational and financial insights. See how leading organizations are leveraging analytics to provide real-time insights with 360-degree views of data to drive unmatched performance.

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The Knowledge-Driven Support Organization and Its Impact on Customer Experience: Research Reveals Harsh Realities for Contact Centers

by Omega Management Group Corp. and Coveo

In the wake of a global recession, with B2Bcustomers focused more on price than loyalty, and yet with product complexity and information growing exponentially, contact centers-the front line of many businesses-are facing a harsh reality: Knowledge rules, and without a critical knowledge management and access strategy, contact center costs and agent turnover rise, customer satisfaction plummets, and customers jump ship for the competition.

This white paper examines the findings of a recent survey conducted by Omega Management Group Corp. and Coveo, that reveals some of the most critical and costly challenges facing customer support departments, and the negative impact on customer service metrics.

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Establishing a Successful Enterprise Search Program: Five Best Practices

by Lynda Moulton, senior analyst for Outsell’s Gilbane Group

Too often data distributed across an organization can’t be put to work efficiently because the systems aren’t in place to make the information available in an efficient manner. Data availability, however, is only one piece of the puzzle. Perhaps even more important is the ability to convert disparate and distributed data into actionable insights that can be used to make decisions or solve business problems.

The white paper "Establishing a Successful Enterprise Search Program: Five Best Practices," by Lynda Moulton, senior analyst for Outsell’s Gilbane Group, outlines the essential steps companies need to take to determine their optimal enterprise search program. It elaborates on the decision-making process for those who are looking for enterprise search solutions to avoid some of the common pitfalls associated with product selection and implementation, and provides a framework and best practices to ensure success.

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Enterprise Search 2.0: An Odyssey Toward Data Insight

by Coveo

As a good percentage of companies adopted enterprise search solutions, all too often IT has found these technologies less than well accepted by knowledge workers. Data from IDC shows that although use of enterprise search solutions has increased in recent years, satisfaction with many of these tools lags that of most other enterprise productivity tools. In this white paper, learn how Enterprise Search 2.0 offers solutions that are easy to implement, have much higher rates of relevancy, and expand far beyond a simple search box, to power new, usage-specific applications that solve critical business problems and allow you to make faster and more informed decisions.

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"Haley and Aldrich, A Search Odyssey" – Quantifying the Value of Enterprise Search

by IDC Analyst Susan Feldman

IDC Analyst Susan Feldman looks at Haley & Aldrich (H&A), a science and engineering professional services firm, and the value the firm has generated by making information accessible to its consulting and professional staff. Having saved 39,931 hours of consultant’s time over the past 12 months (which was previously spent searching for knowledge, expertise, and information across the firm) helped to restore 11% of the firm’s profits lost during a difficult economic period, as the firm estimated that 50% of the time saved had been shifted to more productive, revenue generating work.

Learn what IDC has to sayabout H&A’s approach to enterprise search.

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Beyond Search - Customer Information Access

by TSIA / Coveo

Customer satisfaction rates and key call center metrics have declined over the past decade, even while companies have invested heavily in knowledgebase technologies. This white paper examines these trends as well as the emergence of the customer knowledge ecosystem and innovative technologies that leverage it to help turn customer service from an expense to a corporate asset.

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