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The complimentary 2011-12 Towards Maturity Benchmark report consolidates the experiences of more than 1,800 organizations over the last 8 years. It cuts through the hype to show how HR leaders in real organizations are using both established and new learning technologies to help improve performance and business agility. Download today.

50% of guests do not want to be served by a robot but 80% of operators say robots will be cleaning restaurants by 2027 50% of guests want to be recognized without giving a name or loyalty card 54% of restaurant operators would like to see artificial intelligence helping with menu planning

Every day, people are showing up to work for your channel partners. Some of those people are disengaged, which can have a significant impact on your ultimate success as a manufacturer or franchisor. Engaged channel employees deliver better customer experiences, stay longer with their employer and are more willing to talk their employer up as a great place to work. You’ve worked hard to develop outstanding products and services that are being distributed through your channel. Don’t let disengaged employees put your brand at risk. Download our article to learn how to drive and sustain engagement among your channel employees.

Real-time marketing is one of those buzzwords that sounds good. But, when you ask someone what it means, you get a pretty fuzzy answer. So, we decided to clarify that answer with exclusive research, produced in association with Econsultancy, that provides a snapshot of the real-time marketing landscape in 2014. Inside this report, you’ll learn how to leverage best real-time marketing practices to drive better customer experiences and increased revenue.

Are dev and test constraints holding back your digital transformation? Today, just about all businesses are scrambling to add digital components to their products and services with the hopes of capturing—and maintaining—the interest of an increasingly demanding customer base. As you undergo this digital transformation, your IT teams face tremendous pressure to not only develop innovative new experiences, but do so at an accelerated rate—lest competitors beat you to market with the next big thing. Take a new approach to solving the familiar challenge of doing more with less—and doing it faster than ever before -- remove the constraints holding you back. At its core, Service Virtualization is all about removing constraints within the SDLC by simulating dependent systems, services and behaviors. In order to understand the true depth and breadth of this concept, however, it helps to see how Service Virtualization can be utilized in different development scenarios.

Are you building a business case for replacing disk systems with all-flash? Read this paper to find out what enterprise users are saying about their own experiences with all-flash storage. Findings are based on over a dozen different product reviews.

How to Modernize Your eCommerce Analytics and Improve Customer Experience: 6 best practices of digital performance masters If you are responsible for digital performance, this eBook is your guide for: - Maximizing revenue and brand loyalty - Launching new initiatives wtih confidence - Building engaging digital experiences faster

This guide, compiled from numerous client interviews, best practices and real-life project experiences, will: - Walk you through tools like the Gartner Magic Quadrant - Provide organized criteria to evaluate vendor capabilities in detail - Define why these criteria matter - Give you an example of the typical evaluation process and timeline for an Application Performance Management buyer

Your Guide to Delivering Seamless, Personalized Customer Experiences across Digital and Voice Channels

This white paper discusses the imperative demand faced by organizations to create satisfying and relevant search experiences for their users. Executives who read this white paper will learn what it means to the overall organization to provide unified information access; the impact and benefits of and challenges to pursuing a strategy to unite information across an organization; and the strategies and examples of organizations that have effectively utilized tools to support unified information access in the pursuit of delivering a superior and more relevant search experience for their users.

Millennials are the first true “digital natives,” and because of this, they are often associated with driving new work practices and expectations. However, it is actually the ubiquity of technology, the accelerated pace of work and our consumer experiences that are driving new work practices, not millennials. New research tells us that to be engaging, L&D teams need to focus on modern learning rather than millennials.The formula for modern learning is: • Learner-centric • Micro/modular • Varied treatments • Retention-driven • Embedded • Mobile Download “Millennial Learning Myths and Misconceptions Prescriptions for a Modern Learning Strategy” for tips for enabling modern learning at your organization.

As the healthcare landscape continues to move toward a customer-centric approach, there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail. More specifically, lessons from retail call centers offer the healthcare sector best practices to provide better personalization in their engagements with consumers and patients – before and after clinical encounters. This guide explores three ways retail call centers provide experiences that healthcare leaders can incorporate to provide the personalization needed to impact consumers in today’s evolving healthcare marketing landscape.

CXM is the process of providing unforgettable experiences to your customers at every touchpoint – online, on the phone, on social, and in person. It’s the future of every business operating in a networked world. So where do you begin?

The mobile-cloud era is here. It is not merely about delivering apps; it is about simplifying processes so you can accomplish more. The mobile-cloud era is redefining productivity by enabling workflows through the key foundations of identity and contextual experiences, mobile collaboration, united endpoint management and security, and windows apps and desktops. Today people work primarily from mobile sources and expect a strikingly continuous experience across all their devices, regardless of which device they select to best accomplish any given task. Once access is established, organizations are looking to transform processes to mobile so they can increase efficiency and workflows for end users, thereby driving productivity to the next level.

Tailoring experiences for customers is critical to make your business standout. Customization works well for organizations that want to enhance their standard customer experience but don’t have the necessary tools or strategy for in-depth personalization. Learn about the 5 best practices for customizing websites and the 5 biggest challenges marketers face while customizing their websites.

One of the biggest buzzwords for marketers over the past several years is personalization. When discussing this concept, people often use the terms “personalization” and “customization”interchangeably. Not clearly understanding the differences may explain why some businesseshave difficulty implementing better experiences for their customers.

"The customer experience is incredibly important to business success and is often tied to customer engagement, retention rates, revenue, purchase frequency and overall loyalty. Today, the customer journey is incredibly complex, with everything from geographic location to data quality influencing the customer experience. As a result, brands may not be making the most of their customer experiences. However, with a mix of new technology combined with best practices, companies can regain control of the customer journey and create memorable experiences for their customers. "

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

By creating a connected field service ecosystem, organizations can increase their response time, reduce mean time-to-resolution and eventually, power a more predictive service model. This will enable a new level of field service productivity and cost-savings from increased efficiencies. Organizations will also be able to provide exceptional customer experiences consistently. Customer disruption and asset downtime will be minimized, and organizations will be able to empower their field service resources with insight into the issue before they arrive at the customer site. All thanks to a unified field service and IoT strategy.

By investing in your customer experience teams, next-generation approach, and customers, you empower the modern customer across all touch points and create remarkable experiences. Oracle has the most complete set of customer experience cloud applications to help you meet change, achieve growth, and drive customer loyalty.

Whether they’re millennials born with technology in their DNA, or experienced workers who’ve become accustomed to highly connected digital experiences in all areas of their lives—digital employees are everywhere. According to Gartner, today, every employee is a digital employee. The flexible, digital, data-driven experiences they all receive as consumers have given them extremely high expectations of every service they engage with—including internal ones such as HR.

Digital technologies and increasing customer engagement point traditional financial institutions towards a wonderful new world of an enhanced customer experience. Herded by a wave of regulatory ‘enablers’ - through the yin-yang regulations in the form of the GDPR and PSD2 - the industry landscape is ripe for transformation for those willing and able to embrace this new world: connected customer ecosystems beyond their own institutional walls. In doing this, this creates more comprehensive customer journeys - and ultimately, better quality customer experiences.

Online reviews have the power to make or break your business’ image and credibility. To better understand what drives people to leave reviews, whether positive or negative, we surveyed over 1,000 consumers globally and put together a report with the findings. Download the report to learn: • What motivates people to leave negative reviews • What experiences most inspire positive reviews • The long-term impact on your business of satisfying an unhappy customer Get your free copy now!

If you’re not one of those retailers, you’re likely busy playing catch-up to them – and that’s not a position in which anyone wants to be. Since eCommerce began, a small handful of leaders have set the pace. They’ve innovated quickly and delivered incredibly valuable and convenient shopping experiences. And in doing so, they shaped consumer expectations. Take Amazon. Over a decade ago, the online giant seemingly rewrote the natural laws of retail by managing to deliver more, better, faster – all with unmatched accuracy and ease. Now, consumers expect an Amazon-like experience everywhere they shop, and anything else feels subpar.

Whilst businesses of all kinds are utilizing data analytics, many are still only using it to make simple changes that lead to a set of rigid processes. Whereas the more customer-focused organizations are realizing that to deliver exceptional experiences, they need to be able to react to customer data in real-time and predict what might happen next. And that means going beyond simple analytics. Read our whitepaper to discover what analyst firm Forrester has identified as the Enterprise Insight Platform, technology designed to enable companies to transform into truly data-driven businesses.