case study

Your Local Business Listings are part of the foundation of your online presence. Ensuring that all of your brick-and-mortar business locations are accurately represented on directories like Google My Business, Facebook Places, Bing Places, Apple Maps and more requires a hands-on, managed approach to local data optimization.

For a company that sells wool products, the dog days of summer can be tough. Despite this challenge, Pendleton has managed to stay relevant even during the hottest days of the year thanks to Bluecore. “In June and July, having Bluecore send people emails based on what they browsed is especially helpful because we don’t have as many messages or new products going out. So as often as people come to our site is as often as they’ll get emails, and those emails are guaranteed to be relevant to them. If the onus was on blast emails, then we’d be showing people products that are not necessarily relevant to them or that they might think are terribly out of season,”

Historically, this diversity in both product assortment and customers presented unique challenges for Discount School Supply when it came to matching unique groups of customers to the products that fit their needs. Recognizing the importance of overcoming this challenge, Peter Walter, Director of eCommerce Marketing at Discount School Supply, began the search for a solution. That search led him directly to Bluecore.

Read this Microsoft case study about how Microsoft's Consumer Support Services - with its global network of support centers and thousands of agents - used digital motivation to drive agent performance and learning. Microsoft wanted new ways to recognize and reward agents while increasing their productivity. The focus was to change behaviors, develop skills, encourage sales, and drive outcomes. Microsoft identi?ed gami?cation as a solution to these needs. The company believed it could be more successful at encouraging and recognizing agents for positive outcomes through each customer interaction. Read the case study to learn how Microsoft: Increased productivity through gamification Drove agent performance with rewards, to change behaviors and business outcomes Improved agent knowledge and ability to apply the new information learned.

Comdata Group is one of the world's largest business process outsourcing (BPO) providers. It operates hundreds of call-centers around the globe, with tens of thousands of employees offering, a variety of services, including sales and customer service. In a competitive BPO market, Comdata was looking for ways to increase the productivity and efficiency of its agents. It looked for a unified solution that would successfully engage employees, drive higher accountability and better focus them on their performance. Using Gameffective's platform, Comdata deployed gamified, real-time performance management. This process provides employees with the ability and motivation to self-track their performance against goals and benchmarks, and offers just-in-time coaching based on their needs. The results were impressive: 12% increase in sales per hour, and significant reductions in both new-hire learning curves and in ongoing training time. Read the case study to learn how Comdata: Increased emp

This is a case study which shows how Leicester Theatre Trust (LTT) implemented a revolutionary communications solution based around a service-orientated Unified Communications architecture from NEC.

This is a case study which shows how Voorhees College implemented a revolutionary communications solution based around a service-orientated Unified Communications architecture from NEC to provide students, faculty and staff in five locations with software-based voice and desktop communications tools to achieve a 40 percent savings over its previous traditional telephony solution.

Case Study: NEC provided intuitive and user friendly technology to enrich the whole guest experience with improved service times, personalized assistance and quality communications.

The Business Case for Data Protection, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Ounce Labs, is the first study to determine what senior executives think about the value proposition of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. In times of shrinking budgets, it is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information.

How a leading player in the Airlines Communications Industry scaled up their customer support to meet an increasing product line and customer base.

The company wanted a high-performing CDN partner that understood and supported AdBrite's vision and provided the same transparency in its services.

The company needed a different CDN and website acceleration solution to provide its users with the level of responsiveness to changing stock market conditions that they depend on - and that Seeking Alpha demanded of itself.

xxx

To improve safety and mobility across its 5,600km road network, the City of Toronto forged a partnered with HERE Technologies for the provision of traffic, incident, and historical traffic data. Access to this data allows the city authority to see exactly what’s happening on its roads and more easily and affectively run studies on improvement projects. This case study details how HERE Technologies enabled the City of Toronto’s transportation team to: Work smarter with comprehensive network coverage and accurate data to aid analysis Examine the impact of city projects without significant forward planning or expenditure Ensure travel volume models used to drive decision making are calibrated to represent real-world truths

Case study briefs for Transguard, BiLFINGER, Aldermore PLC, PinkRoccade, Okinawa Cross Head, Siemens, Sogeti, Norrbottens, Dansk Supermarked Group, ITS Nordic.

99tests offers a cloud-based, crowd-sourced testing platform where users can be anywhere in the world. Providing secure, simple, and convenient remote access was a key challenge. Read the case study to see how the Akamai helped 99tests provide simple, secure access to their application.

BitSight relied on a key piece of software for business. As the number of software users grew, the complexity of deploying, managing, and maintaining a VPN infrastructure became a big, ongoing headache for IT. Read the case study to see how Akamai helped BitSight solve their access issues.

Want to know how you can accelerate multicloud IT with hyperconverged infrastructure? Then download this video today and hear from a Cisco Consulting Systems Engineer as he gives an expert talk on Hyperconvergence and Multicloud and what strategies can be adopted by your company. We also hear a case study from Avit Group on how they have successfully adopted Cisco solutions to power their business. Download today to hear more!

In his time as Director of E-Commerce at Linen Chest, Riaz Faride was faced with a challenge right out of the gate. He found himself responsible for a site that had page load times ranging anywhere from 6 to 30 seconds. Linen Chest’s site was heavy, images were hosted on the origin, and code was never refactored and needed to be optimized. Riaz knew he needed to make some changes, and fast.

“With Workplace, the ease of use and the ease of communication actually started new connections that didn’t exist before, which fostered further new connections within the business.” Don Langford, CIO at Virgin Atlantic. Download this case study to find out how Workplace by Facebook improved the business with smarter staff benefits, improved communication and better teamwork and collaboration.

"Campbell is more connected than we've ever been. We've seen a complete transformation in just 9 months. I think it's because Workplace has tools that people can use whenever and wherever they are.” Kristin Ennis, Senior Manager, Communications Download this case study to find out how Workplace by Facebook improved the business with smarter communication, better collaboration and a reimagined company culture.

“Workplace is changing the way we work and helping us connect people better.” Attila Emam, Head of Culture and Internal Communications, AirAsia Download this case study to find out how Workplace by Facebook improved the company by helping people overcome language barriers, improving communication and joining disparate workers together across airports (and continents).

“Workplace is changing the way we work and helping us connect people better.” Attila Emam, Head of Culture and Internal Communications, AirAsia Download this case study to find out how Workplace by Facebook improved the company’s culture by helping people overcome language barriers, improving communication and joining disparate workers together across continents.

“With Workplace, the ease of use and the ease of communication actually started new connections that didn’t exist before, which fostered further new connections within the business.” Don Langford, CIO at Virgin Atlantic. Download this case study to find out how Workplace by Facebook helped to improve the company’s culture with smarter staff benefits, improved communication and better teamwork and collaboration.

"Campbell’s is more connected than we've ever been. We've seen a complete transformation in just 9 months. I think it's because Workplace has tools that people can use whenever and wherever they are.” Kristin Ennis, Senior Manager, Communications Download this case study to find out how Workplace by Facebook helped to improve the business with smarter communication, better collaboration and a re-imagined company culture.