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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

Landscape: The CRM Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices In Mobile Banking

Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 US Bank Secure Website Rankings

Citi Moves To The Top With Added Functionality And A New Look

Digital banking teams want to know where they stack up against competitors when it comes to their secure websites and other digital features — everything from mobile functionality to customer...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 Canadian Bank Secure Website Rankings

Firms Continue To Enhance Core Functionality But Lack New Digital Banking Features

This report details how the secure websites of the six largest retail banks in Canada stack up against each other across six categories and 66 individual criteria measuring the banks' online...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Better Customer Experience Correlates To Higher Net Promoter Scores

Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Commonwealth Bank Of Australia Gets Service-Oriented Via Cloud Computing

Transforms IT From Cost Center To Innovation Center By Leveraging Cloud And Policy-Based Orchestration

Facing rising IT infrastructure costs, inflexible vendor contracts, and labor-intensive processes, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) undertook a massive IT transformation over the last five years....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Collaborative Advice

Using Digital Touchpoints To Enhance Advisor-Client Relationships

In the past, financial advisors and agents typically didn't involve clients in the advice generation process. They worked their magic behind the scenes and then presented clients with the final...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Case Study: Hapoalim Injects A Human Touch Into Digital Banking

Multichannel Integration Uncovers New Opportunities

Bank Hapoalim observed a shift in expectations and interactions within a high-value segment of customers with a direct channel preference. To meet those customers' needs, Bank Hapoalim developed a...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 US Credit Card Secure Website Rankings

Discover Financial Services Takes The Top Spot With Robust Functionality And Strong User Experience

Despite the rapid rise of mobile and tablet banking, secure websites remain the No. 1 digital touchpoint for credit cardholders interacting with their providers. Before eBusiness professionals at...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Process-Driven Business Of 2020

Why And How To Shift From Incremental Improvement To Transformation

Business executives expect the CIO to help continuously improve processes by implementing major software suites, developing new apps, or enhancing existing processes. Spurred by the great recession,...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Case Study: Digital Solutions Help Migdal's Agents To Master A Multi-Touchpoint World

eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at insurers face a strategic dilemma — managing the in-person agent field force while migrating services online. Israeli insurance provider Migdal,...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How Italian Banking Customers Use Different Channels, 2011

The use of digital banking channels has grown rapidly in Italy, which has the highest mobile banking adoption in Europe — while the growth of branch use has come to a halt. Channel strategy...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How Spanish Banking Customers Use Different Channels, 2011

Spanish banks have been at the forefront of banking innovation in Europe, yet customer behavior in Spain has been slow to change. Spanish customers are more likely than customers almost anywhere in...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How German Banking Customers Use Different Channels, 2011

In Germany, as many consumers now bank online as in the branch. Younger, better-educated customers with higher incomes are migrating to the Internet and the mobile channel. While the Web is becoming...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices In Multichannel Financial Services Sales

Take An Agile Approach To Support Customers Across Multiple Touchpoints

The rapid development of customer touchpoints, increasing customer expectations, and the pressure for success in the competitive market forces eBusiness and channel strategy executives at financial...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Banking IT In 2023 Updated

Banking IT In 2023 Becomes Banking IT Today As Well As Banking IT In 2026

Application development and delivery teams in financial services must design and select future-proof, forward-looking business applications capable of coping with future business scenarios. To...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Case Study: Santander Consumer USA Wins With A Smart Mobile CRM Implementation Strategy

What happens when your sales reps blindly make decisions without having the right customer contact information and transaction data at their fingertips to guide them? Santander Consumer USA, a...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Better Customer Experience Correlates To Higher Net Promoter Scores For Banks And Retailers

Investments in customer experience improvements are likely to drive a higher Net Promoter Score (NPS). Forrester tested the strength of the correlation between customer experience quality — as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Power Of Predictions

Case Studies In CRM Next Best Action

Many business process pros have implemented next-best-action technologies to improve customer retention, boost upsell and cross-sell, and enhance customer experiences. Best practices for customer...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Case Study: How Postbank's Partnership With Shell Builds Stronger Customer Relationships

To differentiate its giro account and further improve the availability of cash for its customers, Germany's Postbank created an innovative offer in partnership with Shell. Postbank current account...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:CRM And eCommerce Converge In A World Of Multiple Touchpoints

Welcome To The Era Of Agile Commerce

Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work, because customers don't interact with companies from a channel perspective. Customers now use a rapidly evolving set of devices as...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global Banking Platform Deals 2010: Functionality

Demand Centers And Functional Heterogeneity Make Selection More Difficult

Forrester surveyed 23 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2010 deals. Core banking and channels continue as important factors in many regions. Beyond that, regional functional...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Want Loyalty? Improve Your Call Center Customer Experience

Call Center Satisfaction Ties To Loyalty Across 11 Industries

Call center satisfaction correlates with three loyalty metrics: consumers' willingness to repurchase, reluctance to switch, and likelihood to recommend. Call satisfaction also correlates highly with...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Call Center Experiences Leave Consumers On Hold For Something Better

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries

Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...

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