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Nearly six years after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the healthcare industry is in the midst of a massive retooling that is dramatically altering the way we think about cost management, strategic partnerships, and customer service. Fee-for-service reimbursement is giving way to new models of care delivery and payment to support a system based on pay-for-value. With financial risk or payments tied to value measures (such as patient satisfaction, clinical performance, and population health), compensation and reimbursement will increasingly be tied to value-based incentives.

Customers are more technically savvy than everand have come to prefer the DIY approach to solving their issues and answering their own questions. Years of research by ICMI has confirmed that customers prefer to resolve issues themselves and within their channels of choice. Furthermore, customers onlyseek direct interactions when they unsuccessfully exhaust their self-service options. This is backed up by data from American Express, which found that 48% of consumers prefer to speak with a customer service rep when dealing with complex issues, but only16% prefer the same contact for simple issues. The goal of this paper is simple: We want to help you build an all-in-one knowledge base, community, and customer portal. All of which can be accomplished with a help center like Zendesk Guide.

The start of a new chapter of your business, whether you're moving upmarket or adding products and features, is a great time to scale your customer service operations in a smart way. We know customers prefer self service, via a knowledge base, if one is available. A Gartner report estimates that CIOs can reduce customer support costs by 25% or more when proper knowledge management discipline is in place. If you've been on the sidelines waiting to take the self-serv ice leap, this white paper will prove that you and your agents already partake in the activities needed to offer great self-service,every single day.

Be always on with your customers; wherever they are. With Zendesk Chat, your customer agents can engage with customers over websites, mobile apps, and popular messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Twitter, and LINE. That means you can build relationships with customers in the places they prefer.

Cyber attackers are targeting the application programming interfaces (APIs) used by businesses to share data with customers. Consumer mobile adoption, electronic goods and services, and high volumes of data have led businesses to use APIs for data exchange. Unfortunately, attackers can also use APIs to access or deny service to valuable data and systems. This white paper explores strategies for protecting APIs. You’ll learn about APIs, how and why these endpoints are targets for web application attacks, security models, and how Akamai can help.

In order to maintain their commitment to customer service, Girard Toyota looked to upgrade their outdated phone system. The antiquated system they were using was not only costly to maintain, but also inhibited their efficiency — inbound calls were not answered in a timely fashion, and when they were, the hold times were much too long. Calls were not being transferred to the correct representatives, causing frustration for both new and existing customers. The entire customer experience was negatively impacted, threatening to cost the company revenue and its prized reputation for superior customer service.

Cyber attackers are targeting the application programming interfaces (APIs) used by businesses to share data with customers. Consumer mobile adoption, electronic goods and services, and high volumes of data have led businesses to use APIs for data exchange. Unfortunately, attackers can also use APIs to access or deny service to valuable data and systems. This white paper explores strategies for protecting APIs. You’ll learn about APIs, how and why these endpoints are targets for web application attacks, security models, and how Akamai can help.

Cyber attackers are targeting the application programming interfaces (APIs) used by businesses to share data with customers. Consumer mobile adoption, electronic goods and services, and high volumes of data have led businesses to use APIs for data exchange. Unfortunately, attackers can also use APIs to access or deny service to valuable data and systems. This white paper explores strategies for protecting APIs. You’ll learn about APIs, how and why these endpoints are targets for web application attacks, security models, and how Akamai can help.

Code signing essentially relies on a Public Key Infrastructure, which means code signing certificates are made out of a pair of public and private key - the public key is signed by a trusted Certificate Authority such as DigiCert, and the private key is kept by the owner and used to sign the code to secure. Although the technology behind code signing certificates is proven, managing them - and by extension managing the private keys - is an activity that can be very complex, especially when the key owner(s) do not understand their value. In order to help customers to solve for the shortcomings in regard to the management of code signing private keys and user access, DigiCert has developed Secure App Service. Download this whitepaper to find out more about how this can help your business.

Cyber attackers are targeting the application programming interfaces (APIs) used by businesses to share data with customers. Consumer mobile adoption, electronic goods and services, and high volumes of data have led businesses to use APIs for data exchange. Unfortunately, attackers can also use APIs to access or deny service to valuable data and systems. This white paper explores strategies for protecting APIs. You’ll learn about APIs, how and why these endpoints are targets for web application attacks, security models, and how Akamai can help.

When customers want to solve manufacturing puzzles, they turn to GoProto for industrial design and prototyping. When GoProto went looking for an efficient 3D printing solution to expand its range of services, it turned to the HP Jet Fusion 3D 4200 Printer. See what persuaded GoProto to go all in with HP Multi Jet Fusion technology. Read the case study

Cyber attackers are targeting the application programming interfaces (APIs) used by businesses to share data with customers. Consumer mobile adoption, electronic goods and services, and high volumes of data have led businesses to use APIs for data exchange. Unfortunately, attackers can also use APIs to access or deny service to valuable data and systems. This white paper explores strategies for protecting APIs. You’ll learn about APIs, how and why these endpoints are targets for web application attacks, security models, and how Akamai can help.

Routing is a fundamental component of your customer experience strategy. True omnichannel routing breaks down channel silos and gathers intelligence upfront through context and data to deliver the personalized, seamless engagement your customers now expect. Learn how you can move beyond single interactions with true omnichannel routing: • Dynamically match customers from any touchpoint, over any channel, to the agent with the optimal insights, skill set and proficiency • Enable seamless transitions between digital self-service and live employee contact • Replace single, random interactions with thoughtfully designed and optimized customer journeys

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is staggering in its speed of handling simple requests and automating conversations. But AI solutions are not enough for the best customer experiences. Human emotions sometimes demand the human touch that only live agents can provide. Kate, Customer Experience AI by Genesys, combined with the power of human touch can improve customer experience, empower employees and dramatically reduce costs. This seamless combination of AI technology and humans, or “Blended AI by Genesys,” addresses the entire customer journey for the best possible outcomes. Download the eBook and learn how Kate and Blended AI lets you: • Personalize self-service • Connect customer conversations • Create smart agent experiences • Start small and deploy fast with MicroApps

Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t replicate the human touch, but it can ease your agents’ burden by handling many simple, repetitive requests. A new Forrester Consulting paper offers a look at the strengths and weaknesses of both AI and humans independently, yet how blending them together can give your customers the seamless end-to-end experience they expect. See how enterprises around the world use AI to improve customer service and uncover new revenue streams, the challenges they overcame, and why a blended solution with live agents makes sense. Download the paper to learn three key recommendations on using AI to improve agent productivity, agent satisfaction, and customer satisfaction.

Your customers expect effortless and personalized engagement across all their channels. Delivering exceptional customer service requires the platform, infrastructure, applications and resources to identify, route and switch interactions seamlessly between agents and channels, while keeping relevant data available throughout the customer journey. Download this paper to learn how to: • Transform single interactions into personalized customer journeys • Empower employees with the right set of tools, including a unified desktop • Quickly deploy new technologies, like blended artificial intelligence (AI), bots and virtual assistants to exceed your customers’ rapidly evolving expectations

Bots and automation collide with the power of human touch. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is staggering in its speed of handling simple requests and automating conversations. But AI solutions are not enough for the best customer experiences. Human emotions sometimes demand the human touch that only live agents can provide. Kate, Customer Experience AI by Genesys, combined with the power of human touch can improve customer experience, empower employees and dramatically reduce costs. This seamless combination of AI technology and humans, or “Blended AI by Genesys,” addresses the entire customer journey for the best possible outcomes. Download the eBook and learn how Kate and Blended AI lets you: • Personalize self-service • Connect customer conversations • Create smart agent experiences • Start small and deploy fast with MicroApps

Customer expectations have changed. Self-service options on the channels of their choice are a given. And when self-service is not enough, they want live agents who can step up and make it a seamless transition. Take a new approach to customer engagement today—or your customers won’t be back tomorrow.

Modern contact centers support a variety of digital channels—email, chat, co-browsing, social, video—over multiple digital touchpoints (web or mobile devices). What they lack is the ability to link interactions in a step-by-step journey to provide a personal, contextual experience for each customer. Download this eBook. Learn how you can: • Design a successful digital customer engagement strategy • Provide agents with a 360-degree view of the customer across all digital channels and voice • Deliver omnichannel experiences that are personalized, context-based, and low-effort

With all the options in the rapidly changing marketplace for cloud-based contact centers, it’s a challenge to find the right solution for your business. Easily compare the leading contact center solution vendors in the Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a Multichannel Cloud Contact Center Solution, 2017-18, based on their ability to offer full voice call routing and multichannel customer service in the cloud. Learn why Genesys has been positioned as a leader who has solutions for businesses of all sizes and in all industries around the world. Read the Ovum Decision Matrix to: • Compare cloud contact center solutions based on the strength of their technology platforms • Contrast vendors on their ability to handle multichannel customer interactions and connect with customer and company data through analytics • Understand each vendor’s market impact and why Genesys was chosen as a leader

Thrill customers and empower employees with omni-channel, socially-infused digital experiences to drive better business outcomes IBM Customer Experience Suite features rich, integrated capabilities for managing web content, rich-media assets, real-time social communications, robust customer self-service capabilities, business analytics and mobile device delivery IBM Employee Experience Suite enables employees to easily find and share relevant information across multiple platforms, diverse geographies with multiple languages, and within the context of business applications

Customer service organizations are struggling to react to the pace of innovation and the explosion of channels and devices. To get ahead of these challenges, AD&D pros must deeply invest in automation — automated answers, automated conversations, automated agent guidance, and automated end-to-end processes. They must also invest in intelligence to ensure automated technologies evolve and learn from prior interactions over time. Automation and intelligence quell the headcount increases. They will free agents from working on low-value or repetitive tasks, as they will only have to address highly complex customer scenarios or exceptions to standard operations. This also enables them to focus on building connections with customers to garner their satisfaction and loyalty.

Bold360 empowers companies to reimagine their customer engagement and suppport across all digital channels and devices for highly personalized and intelligent interactions.

To meet the growing challenges of a competitive world economy, a digital transformation is taking place in the enterprise. Organizations realize that to be competitive they need to be more agile. They need to reach their customers wherever they are, and they need to be able to scale their applications to meet customer demands. To meet these challenges, organizations are deploying new microservice applications that are changing the application delivery environment. These applications are agile, configured to enable new features to be added without disrupting applications in production, and designed to automatically instantiate instances in response to increasing user demand. In short, microservices are drastically changing the way that applications are deployed and managed. This introduces a high level of complexity to network infrastructures because traditional applications are not going away. Applications will continue to be designed for both microservices and traditional 3-tier imple

When building artificial intelligence (AI) into your business strategy, it’s easy to become distracted by all the new technologies on the market—each one promising a better customer experience. Make decisions based on facts, not misconceptions. When you evaluate AI technologies, consider these facts: • Bots working with human agents enables a seamless customer journey • Automated self-service costs as little as 20 cents per interaction • A single platform makes it easier to deliver personalized, proactive and predictive experiences See how AI connects customer conversations in this new analyst guide, 2017 ContactBabel Inner Circle Guide to Self-Services.