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- Innovations in Managing IT Service Quality: Managing Service Quality and Risk to Service Delivery in a Lean Economy
- The ongoing global economic recession has left no business, budget or IT organization unscathed. Corporations, forced to do more with fewer resources, are demanding greater economies of scale. That sets expectations that IT organizations will remain lean, yet deliver high-quality services and support. This service-centric visibility will give them the...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Tipper 2.0 (Mobile)
- Calculates how much to tip based on service quality. You use the stars on the bottom to select and rate how good your service was. Tipper then computes how much to tip based on this information. Tipper also allows you to split the tip between many people.
- Software downloads 2009-02-27
- Enhance Service Quality and Increase Customer
- As telecommunications infrastructures become more complex and the marketplace more competitive, it is essential that service providers know what their customers are experiencing. In the past, the method for monitoring customer satisfaction was to measure aggregate network quality. Today, individual service quality is key. When calls are being dropped or...
- White papers 2009-02-04
- Managing Virtualization Within Data Center Consolidation
- At first look, consolidating data centers should make managing and monitoring performance easier because the infrastructure and IT organizations are more centralized. However, there are new challenges that can impact overall service quality within a consolidated environment - cross-domain collaboration and virtualization of applications. This paper will evaluate the new...
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Efficient Online Monitoring of Web-Service SLAs
- If an organization depends on the service quality provided by another organization it often enters into a bilateral Service Level Agreement SLA, which mitigates outsourcing risks by associating penalty payments with poor service quality. Once these agreements are entered into, it becomes necessary to monitor their conditions, which will commonly...
- White papers 2008-11-15
- Analysis and Realization of IPTV Service Quality
- Digital Television TV service over Internet Protocol IP networks is becoming a crucial element in a network provider's portfolio. However, the limitations of the existing communication networks and the complexity of the service impose many operational, performance, and scalability barriers. Analytic discussion of service quality is non-trivial because of the...
- White papers 2008-02-27
- Deliver Optimal Service Quality
- Traditionally, telecommunications providers evaluate service using metrics about the underlying network infrastructure to derive an indication of the overall health of each revenue-generating service they deliver. But as technologies mature, the types of available services rise sharply. Because today's services are highly complex, and run over virtual network paths, they...
- White papers 2007-12-19
- Managing Service Quality: CA Delivers Business Value by Automating Integration of ITIL Disciplines
- Many enterprises are implementing ITIL's guidelines for service support and service delivery to great effect. However organizations must connect these disciplines to have active control over service quality. Service delivery solutions provide the insight that action must be taken and best practices have evolved to collect, report, and analyze user...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Efficient Monitoring of Web Service SLAs
- Web services are increasingly used in inter-organizational settings. If an organization depends on the service quality provided by another organization it often enters into a bilateral Service Level Agreement SLA to precisely determine service quality and permitted service use. SLAs then also determine penalty payments as risk mitigation against poor...
- White papers 2007-02-03
- 6 Steps Improved Service Quality
- The No.1 reason for IT Infrastructure Library ITIL adoption according to a recent Evergreen Systems report is to improve service quality. Reports by various industry analysts claim that about 80% of service desk calls result from change-related failures self-inflicted by IT. Since most service desk calls result from failed changes,...
- White papers 2006-08-31
- Call Center Outsourcing: Coordinating Staffing Level and Service Quality
- This paper studies the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. The authors model the call center as a G/G/s queue with customer abandonment. Each call has a revenue potential, and the author...
- White papers 2006-06-29
- VoIP Service Quality Monitoring Using Active and Passive Probes
- Service providers and enterprises all over the world are rapidly deploying Voice over IP VoIP networks because of reduced capital and operational expenditure, and easy creation of new services. Voice traffic has stringement requirements on the quality of service, like strict delay and loss requirements, and 99.999% network availability. However,...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- A New Imperative: Total Service Quality Management for Wireline and Wireless Environments
- The concept of Total Service Quality Management is essential for companies competing in today's fixed-line, data services and wireless telecommunications markets. This approach to service quality management consolidation and aggregates end-to-end service level data in real time to enable proactive management of service quality. It automates the process...
- White papers 2004-08-27
- Banking on Six Sigma to Improve Service Quality
- Improving the quality of IT services continues to be on the agenda for IT managers and practitioners in the banking and finance industry. To help address this, organisations have turned to practices and quality methods that include IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, and Six Sigma - combining them to measure the...
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- Russian Cellular Leader, VimpelCom, Counts on Avaya Contact Center Solution to Deliver Superior Customer Service
- Operating under the well-known BeeLine brand, VimpelCom is one of Russia's three leading cellular service companies and the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Service quality has been a key to growth for VimpelCom, one of the three leading Russian cellular service providers. So when subscriber...
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- Real-Time Visibility and Control Helps HMPS Manage Tightening Budgets Without Eroding Service Quality
- Her Majesty's Prison Services HMPS is responsible for the custody of 79,000 prisoners held in 128 public sector prisons in England and Wales. The service aimed to improve financial transparency across all prisons to streamline reporting, budgeting, planning, and inventory management. The challenge was to maintain service quality while cutting...
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- MacTopos Arizona 3.0 (Mac)
- Backpack, hike, camp, and burrow-ride in the Grand Canyon. Kayak and canoe on Lake Mead. James Associates, producer of MacGPS Pro software, now offers MacTopos Arizona for the ultimate topographic digital map solution.Two DVDs for Arizona contain USGS topo maps of the entire state in there crystal-clear map scales: 1:24K,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-28
- Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test
- Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- Brekeke SIP Server 2.3.8.4 (Windows)
- Brekeke SIP Server provides SIP-based communication platform for service providers and enterprises. The product has original NAT traversal functionality, TCP-UDP (UDP-TCP) conversion as well as flexible control routing functions. Brekeke SIP Server enables high-quality and reliable IP communications with minimal initial investment.
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- MacTopos Utah 3.0 (Mac)
- Camp, geocache, off-road, hike, and bike Utah in style! James Associates, producer of MacGPS Pro software, now offers MacTopos Utah for the ultimate topographic digital map solution.Two DVDs for Utah contain USGS topo maps of the entire state in three crystal-clear map scales: 1:24K, 1:100K, and 1:250K plus US Forest...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
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