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Ensuring Customer Loyalty: Designing Next-Generation Loyalty Programs sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Loyalty programs are a necessary part of a successful CRM program and long-term customer retention. Compare available programs, learn what a loyalty program can achieve for your business and gain an eight step guide to designing your own successful plan. Posted: 16 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Feb 2005 TOPICS: Change Management \| CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| Customer Loyalty \| Vendor Selection

Oracle Vertical CRM Applications: Realizing Business Benefit Through Industry Best Practices sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explores the benefits of employing a vertical CRM application based on industry best practices. Learn challenges, opportunities and benefits of vertical applications as well as advice for industry-specific solutions. Posted: 02 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Mar 2008 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| CRM Software \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Customer Data Management Software \| Customer Service Best Practices \| Customer Support Software \| Oracle (Product) \| Reporting Software \| Sales Contact Management Software \| Sales Force Automation \| Sales Information Systems \| Vendor Selection

Planning and Implementing A Dynamic Cloud: Creating a Cloud Environment That's as Dynamic as Your Business sponsored by Adaptive Computing WHITE PAPER: Not sure how to start implementing cloud? This resource takes you through some of the key points to keep in mind as you are developing a long-term cloud strategy. Discover how you can create the ideal, optimized cloud environment that will serve your business needs for years to come. Posted: 15 Feb 2012 \| Published: 15 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Data Center Management \| Hybrid clouds \| Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) \| Private Cloud \| Vendor Selection

Enabling Advanced Analytics by Bloor Research sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company WHITE PAPER: There is a great deal of discussion right now about advanced analytics, predictive analytics and in-database analytics. What are these? Read this white paper to find out! Posted: 25 Mar 2011 \| Published: 25 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Databases \| Predictive Analytics \| Vendor Selection

Choosing the Perfect Customer Support App sponsored by Desk.com (A Salesforce Company) WHITE PAPER: This guide counts down four easy steps to help you cut through the market for customer support applications and identify the tool that meets your business needs. Posted: 05 Mar 2014 \| Published: 05 Mar 2014 TOPICS: CRM \| CRM Best Practices \| CRM Services \| CRM Software \| Customer Interaction Services \| Customer Retention \| Customer Satisfaction \| Customer Service \| Customer Service Best Practices \| Customer Support Software \| Help Desk Software \| Help Desks \| Software Selection \| Vendor Selection

Considering Leading Architectures for Specialty Analytic Servers sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company WHITE PAPER: Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments. Posted: 05 Aug 2010 \| Published: 05 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Server Software \| Architectures \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Database Server Software \| ILM \| Multi-core Processor Architecture \| SAP (Product) \| Vendor Selection

Enterprise Resource Planning Software: Taking the Plunge sponsored by VAI, Vormittag Associates, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to discover the many benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Posted: 20 Mar 2009 \| Published: 20 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Call Centers \| CRM \| Data Integration \| ERP \| Sales Force Automation \| SMBs \| Software Selection \| Systems Operations \| Vendor Selection

Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management sponsored by SDL Web Content Management Solutions Division WHITE PAPER: This Magic Quadrant will help CIOs and business and IT leaders that are analyzing their Web strategies to assess whether they have the right Web Content Management offering to support them. Use this Magic Quadrant to understand the fresh vitality in the WCM market and how Gartner rates the leading vendors and their packaged products. Posted: 08 Sep 2010 \| Published: 07 Sep 2010 TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Business Process Outsourcing \| Information Management \| Interoperability \| Location-Based Services \| Location-Based Services (Software) \| Strategic Planning \| Vendor Selection \| Web Content Management

Stratecast: An SSL VPN Selection Framework: One Size Does Not Fit All sponsored by SonicWALL WHITE PAPER: SSL VPN is an important layer of protection for your company. This paper details an SSL VPN selection framework to help you evaluate the best option for your organization and how to save time and money when selecting your next SSL VPN. Posted: 14 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2007 TOPICS: Access Control \| Access Control Software \| Data Security \| Endpoint Security \| Information Security \| Malware \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| SSL VPN \| Vendor Selection \| Virus Protection \| VPN Appliances

Doing Business with Comstor sponsored by Comstor WHITE PAPER: Learn more about Comstor, a leader in Cisco product distribution and an established provider of networking and advanced technology solutions. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 27 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Certification Programs \| Channel Management \| Distribution \| Marketing \| Networking \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors