OpenText Corporation, Canada’s largest software company with roughly $2B in global sales, announced it is buying HP Exstream for $315M. Exstream is a market-leading customer communications management... View More
The title of this article is a rework of a quote from noted astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, PhD, who said, “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” This same... View More
In his famous management book first published in 1954, The Practice of Management, Peter F. Drucker stated, “The goal of a business is to create and keep customers.” Today, more than 60 years... View More
We have written about the fundamental changes sweeping across the customer communications management function for the last several years. Customer experience and the way we engage our customers has challenged... View More
You do not have to search hard to find recent examples of insurance companies announcing a focus on customer experience. For example, the major US health insurer, Aetna, recently opened two in-house multicultural... View More
Many of the 2015 articles about customer communications focused on the benefits of thinking about customer experience. In 2016, information technology (IT) project owners will be moving customer experience... View More
GMC Software Technology (GMC), a leader in Customer Communications Management (CCM), released a study it commissioned from Forrester Consulting to evaluate how financial services are improving their customer... View More
The inexorable march toward customer experience and engagement strategies sweeping though organizations of all industries is changing the way we think and operate as businesses. Gartner predicts, “By... View More
As the concept of customer experience management (CEM) appears as a way to improve customer experience (CX), many enterprises are undergoing exercises in customer journey mapping. These sessions can involve... View More
Competition among companies in all industries has never been more intense when it comes to acquiring and retaining customers—and technology will certainly play a central role as these organizations... View More
Autumn is that time of year where it is incumbent upon us in the industry to deliver both our predictions and forward-thinking vision of the future and our writing coverage plans for the following year... View More
As you might have noticed, our special GRAPH EXPO/ARMA 2015 issue represents the sometimes-contentious marriage of two worlds—print and digital. While they’re not necessarily the yin to each... View More
Improving customer experience is a key priority for enterprises today. To improve something, you need to have the ability to measure it. Based on your objective, measurement methodologies for... View More
I recently ran across a blog by Michael Fitzgerald, a senior analyst at the research and consulting firm Celent, commenting on millennials and their influence on today’s customer experience in the... View More
“Organizations which unify customer communications management (CCM) and web content management (WCM) will receive higher value and improve customer experience versus organizations that keep CCM and... View More
Content marketing continues to be a hot topic in the marketing world. While the term can mean many things to many people, we’ll take the word of industry expert and founder of the Content Marketing... View More
GMC Software Technology (GMC), the award-winning leader in Customer Communications Management (CCM) and output management, released a report via the Novarica Research Partners Program, indicating that... View More
Leader in mobile and voice customer service, SpeechStorm (www.speechstorm.com), has collaborated with automated customer experience testing software provider, Cyara (www.cyara.com), to develop ‘S-Connect... View More
There is a lot of buzz and plenty of buzzwords around the idea of improving your company\'s customer experience. Today, this communication is occurring across a wider variety of devices, platforms and... View More
In a recent survey conducted by the DOCUMENT Strategy Forum, executives, senior managers and program managers reported that the single most important benefit they are seeking to improve is the customer... View More
It’s no secret that digital channels have become foundational to the delivery of customer communications, with customers increasingly indicating mobile apps, SMS, email and other digital delivery me
Customer communications surrounding accounts receivable (AR), particularly those regarding overdue payments and the initiation of collections, are among the trickiest to craft given the critical
In the digital transformation era, what most needs digitization is multiform content. Enterprise content management systems (CMSes) are how that will get done
