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Text messaging is simple, concise and compatible with virtually every mobile device, operating system and wireless carrier, making it very appealing to financial advisors and their customers. However, if used for business communications, texts can create tremendous risk. Less than a third of financial firms have a text supervision solution in place according to the Smarsh 2016 Electronic Communications Compliance Survey, the largest compliance gap facing financial firms today. Text messaging can’t be ignored by firms any longer.

The waiting room experience at your business can make or break customer service. Customers not only feel special when they wait in style, it’s good for business too. You can give your hotel, retail store, auto repair shop, or other service-oriented business a big boost by customizing your waiting room to feature free Wi-Fi, TV or technology workspace.

Business phone systems may not attract the same attention or achieve the same acclaim that computers, smart phones and tablets regularly receive. You won’t hear of too many publicized conferences or Twitter trends but that does not negate their importance.

Internet service is the heart of any business today, powering everything from telephone service to videoconferences. Because so much of your business depends on a reliable, fast internet connection, it’s important that you choose the best internet service for your environment. With several different options, though, professionals can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the technical jargon.

A company’s most valuable asset is arguably its data and it needs to be backed-up, stored, secured and managed so that its available to the organization when and where needed. Have you ever thought about how much data your organization generates every day? Are you concerned about how your business can safely store and reliably access their growing data?

One of the most fundamental aspects of marketing your business is having the right technology in place, And at the forefront of your technology hub should be a reliable phone service. Having a dependable phone network your company can is vital in more ways that one. Even in today's world of competing technology and emerging tech-trends, a proper phone system is the link that enables you to connect with anyone, from co-workers down the hallway to the business partner on the other side of the globe.

For any business that serves customers each day, a comfortable waiting room is essential. Service-oriented companies strive to provide all of the best amenities to guests, including coffee, bottled water, and free Wi-Fi. These amenities not only show a customer service-oriented attitude. They also serve to make the wait time more enjoyable by giving visitors something to do.

Secure, efficient communication between doctors and staff is key to reliable patient care. For Groves Community Hospice, every situation involving patients requires rapid response; this poses a particular challenge, as more than 80 percent of the hospice staff work in the field. With so many doctors and staff off-site or on-call, and considering the inherent urgency of hospice care, Groves needed to streamline staff communications and enable a better way for physicians and staff to connect and discuss critical patient issues within a secure environment.

In businesses and organizations across the world, rooms once humming with wires, black boxes and blinking lights now sit empty. In a lonely phone closet, there’s only dust, a single lonely terminal, or perhaps a foosball table where IT pros can let off steam.

Electronic health records (EHRs) are necessary, but were not designed to anchor population health management (PHM). This is partly because they lack semantic interoperability, which is the ability of disparate information systems to share data and enable communications among users in a meaningful way. This paper explains how an approach that includes a care collaboration platform can manage population health by aggregating and normalizing the necessary data.

To transform from tactical to strategic, you must rethink how to perform the important functions that consume too many resources. Download this white paper to learn the 3 best practices to streamlining HR services and communications.

NetSuite recently joined forces with IDG Communications to gather together some of Australia’s leading CIO and CFO professionals to find out how their businesses are responding to disruption, the inherent opportunities it brings, the impact on their roles and what role cloud computing plays in this process. This white paper shares some of the key experiences of participating businesses from a wide range of industries within Australia, including retail, government, tourism and professional services.

Restoring connections: How telecommunications providers can reboot the customer experience IBM has more than 22,000 experts working in the Telecommunications industry, delivering solutions to more than 200 major communications service providers globally. IBM’s telecommunications capabilities are backed by a global network of telecom solution labs, research labs and innovation centers to support its offerings in the area of analytics, cloud, mobility, network optimization, digital transformation and global integration. IBM continues to invest significantly in key acquisitions to add expertise and capabilities that enable its clients in the telecommunications space.

What if the cloud could radically improve your customer’s experience, your operations, and your bottom line? There’s a reason why many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud for contact centers. This eBook, focuses on two profiles for small contact centers, small business and small of large - a small contact center that is part of a much larger enterprise. Get key insights from independent market research that will help you make a case to take your customer communications platform to the cloud. With the right solution, your business can benefit from enterprise-quality capabilities at a price you can afford. And you can realize a return on investment in as little as three months! Download this eBook and learn: • How to calculate ROI and time-to-value in different types of small contact center profiles • What factors to consider when selecting a cloud vendor • Three common myths about the cloud

"When the CMO Council recently asked more than 200 senior marketing decision makers how effectively they have aligned physical and digital experiences, half admitted that these integrated experiences were selective, at best. Yet it is alignment, consistency and connection that drive the foundational relationship between the brand and the buyer. The CMO Council, in partnership with IBM, will host a one-hour interactive webcast with industry-leading media, entertainment and telecommunications marketers to discuss how audience insights across the digital and physical experience have been turned into action, allowing these brands to personalize and enrich each engagement. Multiple case studies will also be discussed during the webcast that focus on the power of segmentation and innovations around cognitive computing. Speakers include Liz Miller, Senior Vice President of Marketing for the CMO Council; Jody Sarno, Dedicated Client Partner, Communications Industry for IBM; Chris Crayner, Ch

This paper presents a cost/benefit case for two leading enterprise database contenders -- IBM DB2 11.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 11.1 LUW) and Oracle Database 12c -- with regard to delivering effective security capabilities, high-performance OLTP capacity and throughput, and efficient systems configuration and management automation. Comparisons are of database installations in the telecommunications, healthcare, and consumer banking industries. For OLTP workloads in these environments, three-year costs average 32 percent less for use of DB2 11.1 compared to Oracle 12c.

This paper presents a cost/benefit case for two leading enterprise database contenders -- IBM DB2 11.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 11.1 LUW) and Oracle Database 12c -- with regard to delivering effective security capabilities, high-performance OLTP capacity and throughput, and efficient systems configuration and management automation. Comparisons are of database installations in the telecommunications, healthcare, and consumer banking industries. For OLTP workloads in these environments, three-year costs average 32 percent less for use of DB2 11.1 compared to Oracle 12c.

This paper presents a cost/benefit case for two leading enterprise database contenders -- IBM DB2 11.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 11.1 LUW) and Oracle Database 12c -- with regard to delivering effective security capabilities, high-performance OLTP capacity and throughput, and efficient systems configuration and management automation. Comparisons are of database installations in the telecommunications, healthcare, and consumer banking industries. For OLTP workloads in these environments, three-year costs average 32 percent less for use of DB2 11.1 compared to Oracle 12c.

By investing in Salesforce you demonstrate a clear interest in your customers and their success. NewVoiceMedia will take that investment to the next level by integrating your communications platform with your customer and prospect data in Salesforce to provide a context rich, superior sales experience.

By investing in Salesforce you demonstrate a clear interest in your customers and their success. NewVoiceMedia will take that investment to the next level by integrating your communications platform with your customer data in Salesforce to provide personalized, exceptional service.

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

Personalization works. Brands know this. That’s why they use information like customer names, relevant content, and purchasing history to make consumers feel special. But is this enough for today’s empowered consumers? No—it still treats consumers as a small drop in a big bucket of generic marketing communications. It’s repetitive and stale. It’s simply not enough.

Cox Communications has been a SundaySky customer for five years, running personalized video ad programs through traditional video publisher channels. At the end of 2016, Cox Communications expanded that program to Facebook to see if greater levels of personalization and performance could be achieved by combining the dynamic capabilities of SmartVideo technology with the reach of the Facebook ads platform. The program targets recent Cox website visitors on Facebook and delivers them a relevant video ad with offers related to products and services they had viewed on Cox.com. The program leverages SundaySky’s SmartVideo platform to achieve Cox’s online revenue goals of maximizing the number of revenue-generating orders on its website while also lowering the cost per acquisition (CPA) as the program optimizes.

The world is mobile. People communicate with each other on their mobile phones, they stay on schedule with the help of their smartwatches, and, perhaps most importantly, they interact with brands via mobile apps. Therefore, it’s important for brands to focus on their mobile experiences. To investigate the preferences and behaviors of consumers when using mobile applications within the U.S., SundaySky conducted an online survey with 226 total respondents.

In the digital age, the internet brings a lot of fantastic things to the PR profession, opening new mediums, offering data-driven insights, and allowing new opportunities. But on the other side, it also brings challenges in the overwhelming speed at which news spreads. With endless examples of poorly handled situations, PR knows in this digital age, there is no hiding a burgeoning crisis. So when discussing PR crises and preparedness, make sure to reframe your thinking for today’s world: are you prepared for a digital crisis in a digital age?