customer service

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.

Although today’s customers interact with your brand through a variety of channels, they want one thing from you: a consistent experience. Savvy customers expect that you will meet them where they are, when they need you, and with the highest quality, informed service.

Welcome to IT as a Service For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. IT as a Service is the emerging technique that gives technology leaders the flexibility of providing the right set of services to the business. The world of IT is changing dramatically. Businesses are increasingly discovering that IT services are becoming the foundation for the customer experience. IT as a Service isn’t simply a new delivery model for applications. Instead, IT as a Service is a new approach to providing an array of modular services that are targeted to solve changing business problems. While services can be as straightforward as compute or storage in the cloud, they can also be used to complex solutions. Other services may include microservices or integration services that enable a business to quickly create new solutions to help service customers in a more creative and efficient manner.

In this document you’ll discover 1) 6 ways you’re letting your customers down 2) The 4 things you absolutely have to measure 3) The secret to optimisation 4) The proof: How OSN turned around its field service performance

Over the past few years, organizations have used a variety of tools and technologies to enable basic mobile device management (MDM) and essential apps like email and calendar. But those capabilities are inadequate for companies that want to move beyond the basics and transform their business processes by securely moving apps and data to the cloud. For AirWatch customers, this means they should start evaluating leading enterprise mobility management (EMM) platforms like MobileIron in order to achieve their mobile transformation goals. Our platform is 100% focused on building today’s modern enterprise architecture, which is quickly shifting core business processes away from legacy technologies and standardizing on mobile devices and cloud services.

Cloudera helps communications service providers capitalize on big data to deliver a 360-degree view of customers and improve customer experiences.

Today’s professional services firms operate in a highly competitive environment where gaining new business, delivering profitable customer engagements, and hiring the best talent are continual challenges. Because professional services firms are uniquely people-driven organizations, it’s critical you have a solid strategy to find, develop, resource, and retain workers, since they directly impact company revenue and contribute the most to cost.

In this whitepaper, we will explore the Agile portfolio continuum and provide recommendations on how to bridge the gap between the ideal Agile organization and your current state to help build a winning enterprise.

Employee turnover is expensive and can be catastrophic to morale and customer service quality. No one wants to see their top talent walk out the door. But how can you keep retention high at your company? We’ve put together a white paper with some stats and advice to help you increase your employee retention rates and keep employees (and customers) satisfied.

Live Chat software can help you to increase online sales conversions and customer service productivity - if you use it correctly. To maximize your live chat ROI it's important to select the right live chat vendor. This PDF provides some essential tips that you should consider in making the best selection.

With Citrix for chartered accountants you can securely connect to clients, files and QuickBooks from any device. We make it easy to streamline your file sharing and secure your firm’s data as well as your clients’. You get seamless access to all of the files you need—and even QuickBooks—from any device, any time. Read this fact sheet to see how Citrix can help you: • Exchange confidential client files and emails with superior encryption and security. • Offer a more professional solution compared to password-protected PDFs. • Improve your customer service with cutting-edge technology at an affordable price.

With Citrix for chartered accountants you can securely connect to clients, files and QuickBooks from any device. We make it easy to streamline your file sharing and secure your firm’s data as well as your clients’. You get seamless access to all of the files you need—and even QuickBooks—from any device, any time. Read this fact sheet to see how Citrix can help you: • Exchange confidential client files and emails with superior encryption and security. • Offer a more professional solution compared to password-protected PDFs. • Improve your customer service with cutting-edge technology at an affordable price.

To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.

Business Service Management (BSM) is of growing importance in the IT world. By managing IT systems according to the business services they support - like order entry, online sales, shipping, or customer service - IT is able to deliver on real business goals like providing competitive advantage, improving customer satisfaction, driving revenue growth, and increasing shareholder value.

With the explosion of touch points and ways to communicate, the public today is more connected than ever before with the government. The transformation for your own agency can begin right now. We’ve created this roadmap for understanding what best practices exist and how we can surprise and delight your users with new digital services. You’ll also learn new strategies to help put your agency on the path to digital transformation, as well as practical tips for getting the job done.

Business Intelligence helps retailers, warehouse staff, customer services agents, and your value chain realize new innovations, improve margins, and propel profits to new heights. Learn how Ace Hardware, Food Lion, and others leverage our software.

How a leading player in the Airlines Communications Industry scaled up their customer support to meet an increasing product line and customer base.

The buyer’s journey is constantly evolving, and it can be difficult to keep up with the ever-changing expectations of the consumer. With so many potential touch points between new website user and returning customer, it’s essential that your business be prepared every step of the way. The tools are there to help you – set them up now to start recovering that lost revenue with relevant personalized marketing. From browsing to carting to checkout to post-purchase, optimizing your business at every stage of the journey is critical to increasing your conversion rates, and ultimately, your profitability. If the path is too difficult to navigate or not relevant to consumers, you’ll quickly lose shoppers and find it nearly impossible to develop loyal fans of your brand. Get to know your customers, help them feel comfortable and confident about buying from you and do your best to earn a coveted spot as one of their favorite go-to shopping destinations.

Verisign has a unique view into distributed denial of service (DDos) attack trends, including attack statistics, behavioral trends and future outlook. The below data contains observations and insights about attack frequency and size derived from mitigations enacted on behalf of customers of Verisign DDoS Protection Services from January through March 2017.

Speed time-to-value, improve end user experience of customer service applications.

How to Elevate your Customer Experience gives you some great pointers on how you can take customer experience to the next level, making sure that it is a positive experience every step of the way.

An MSP Guide to Selling IT Security will give your organization new insight into selling IT security services to your customers and a path to becoming a modern Managed Services Security Provider (MSSP).

Take a look at our E-book “How to Price managed Cloud Services,” to discover how you can use the cloud to your advantage. Learn how you can use an a la carte pricing model to bundle more services and drive more value for your customers and for your business. You can add a personal touch for your customers that no other IT service provider can give them – support, service and help when they need it.

Culture has become one of the most important business topics of 2016. CEOs and HR leaders now recognize that culture drives people's behavior, innovation, and customer service: 82 percent of survey respondents believe that "culture is a potential competitive advantage." Knowing that leadership behavior and reward systems directly impact organizational performance, customer service, employee engagement, and retention, leading companies are using data and behavioral information to manage and influence their culture.

Download this white paper to learn more about these notable findings from IDC's study of HP DC Service customers. HP Datacenter Care Service can reduce the costs of delivering mission-critical business processes by 23%. HP's Datacenter Care Service solution is able to reduce downtime by 88%, adding five hours of uptime annually to each internal user and $835,000 in revenue to each organization. Increasingly, x86 servers will need a higher level of operational support. On average, companies in this study were able to recognize an average ROI of 456% and pay back the initial investment in HP DC Service in six months.