A survey has revealed that direct sales expert, Dell is continuing to climb the corporate ladder at the expense of Compaq and IBM. According to US IT managers, Dell listens to its customers more and makes more durable products than its rivals.
The contact centre solutions, unlike many other contact technologies, can lower cost while increasing customer satisfaction. By 2003, we'll be talking about 'contact centres', where a significant amount of customer contact will occur via email...
Don Galles, senior manager, European analyst relations for Siebel, said his customer satisfaction figures speak for themselves - average ROI is 10 months and average revenue goes up 16 per cent. However, he reckons vendors wouldn't be able to get...
Further, other channels such as interactive TV and mobiles have failed to catch on too. Although Datamonitor predicts the number of branches in Europe will fall from 184,442 in 2002 to an estimated 168,762 in 2005, this will be because banks are...
Spend on speech-enabled self service technology is estimated to more than double to $1.2bn in North America and pass $1bn in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by 2008. This has led to a sharpened focus among enterprises on improving and automating...
Pure-play online retailers scored more highly on customer satisfaction than the web counterparts of traditional high-street brands over the Christmas shopping period. A survey of 10,500 consumers on the top 30 retail websites in the UK, conducted...