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Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs Without Losing Customers? The Right Technologies Lead the Way Out of the Call Center Dilemma

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Overview While setting their customer service strategy, some organizations have focused solely on cost reduction through outsourcing and basic automation. In the process, though, many have discovered that efforts to unduly curb operational expenses are alienating customers -- and eventually eroding profits. When confronting the growing pains of their customer service environment, successful companies have encountered the full scope of challenges.

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Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Call Center - Contact, CRM Software, Sales Force Automation, ROI - TCO

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