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Big Data Leading to New Breed of Service Provider

Big data is giving rise to a new breed of services aimed at helping over-burdened IT departments take on the challenges of data analytics without investing in additional infrastructure. And vendors of all sizes are getting in on the action.

31 okt. 2012 6 mins
BPM Systems Big Data Technology Industry
how-to

6 Business Dashboards That Help CIOs Manage Employees, Web Services

These six dashboards help IT executives make key decisions by putting data from a variety of enterprise applications and services at a CIO's fingertips so he or she can better manage employees, website activity, development projects and more.

30 okt. 2012 4 mins
BPM Systems Business Intelligence ERP Systems
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How One Business Uses Social Networking and BPM to Handle Disasters

When a hurricane hit, insurance claim outsourcer Crawford & Company struggled to efficiently deploy adjusters. Here's how business process management and a social application helped the company move beyond whiteboards and sticky notes.

29 okt. 2012 5 mins
BPM Systems CIO Small and Medium Business
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Mobile Payments Are Just a Text Message Away

Barclays Bank puts a personal spin on mobile payments with a person-to-person mobile app that lets customers send and receive payments via text messages between iPhone, Android and Blackberry mobile phones.

29 okt. 2012 5 mins
Small and Medium Business Smartphones iPhone
how-to

How to Build an Online Business From Scratch

To build a successful online business, you need potential and customers. Learn how to build a basic website that offers prospective customers a free digital product in exchange for an email address as well as how to get paid customers to sign up afte

29 okt. 2012 8 mins
E-commerce Software Retail Industry Small and Medium Business
how-to

Top 10 CRM Tricks Guaranteed to Lose Customers

Best-practices articles are as dull to read as they are to write, columnist David Taber says. So here are 10 customer support system worst practices that are certain to derail customer satisfaction.

25 okt. 2012 6 mins
BPM Systems CRM Systems Marketing
opinion

Offline-Online Convergence Is Shaking Up the Retail Sector

CIOs are at the center of the 'omnichannel retail' revolution, where the customer expects the same great shopping experience whether the venue is a store, website, smartphone or tablet, says CIO Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson.

25 okt. 2012 3 mins
CRM Systems Retail Industry
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Retail CIOs Need to Step Up Their Game

To win in the new world of omnichannel retail, CIOs will need to focus on the customer experience and collaborate in the C-suiteu2029.

25 okt. 2012 3 mins
CRM Systems Relationship Building Retail Industry
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How Starbucks Brews Its Mobile Strategy

The coffee retailer's chief digital officer describes how he focuses first on the customer experence before making any technology decisions

25 okt. 2012 3 mins
CRM Systems Retail Industry Small and Medium Business
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Omnichannel Retail Brings Together Online and Offline Shopping

CIOs are merging online and offline retail to retain customers and reclaim the shopping experience. It's a strategy called 'omnichannel retail'--but it's a long and expensive journey.

25 okt. 2012 15 mins
CRM Systems Retail Industry Smartphones