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RightNow invites you to the 2007 SummitRightNow 2007 Summit - August 27-30, 2007

2007 RightNow Summit - Wednesday Presentations

11:00 - 12:15

RightNow Connect
[File Size: 1.02MB Estimated Download Time: 2.6min (56k), 0.5min (dsl)]
Looking for an easier way to integrate RightNow into your enterprise using open, standards-based Web services? RightNow Connect helps assure well-integrated customer information and processes that enable you to enrich the customer experience. This session is designed for IT professionals responsible for systems integration and data management.

Best Practices, Marketing Automation
[File Size: 0.31MB Estimated Download Time: 0.8min (56k), 0.2min (dsl)]
RightNow Marketing is the industry's most powerful solution for getting your company's key messages out to existing customers and prospects. This session covers a selection of best practices around areas such as permission marketing, effective targeting, campaign optimization and successful delivery.

Best Practices, Analytics
[File Size: 0.37MB Estimated Download Time: 0.9min (56k), 0.2min (dsl)]
Analytics and Reporting best practices for creating, running, maintaining, securing, and scheduling reports. It will cover areas including maximizing report re-usability, optimizing run-time performance,will highlight new features in the 8.1 platform including cross-tab reports, functions, paging, and new dashboard functionality.

Advanced Workspace Design
[File Size: 0.09MB Estimated Download Time: 0.2min (56k), 0min (dsl)]

Cross Enterprise Data Integration
Speaker: Ron Papas, GM Informatica On Demand

[File Size: 1.41MB Estimated Download Time: 3.5min (56k), 0.7min (dsl)]
As companies increasingly turn to hosted models and move their data and business processing to hosted platforms they find it more difficult to leverage their data assets. The processes for migrating data to the hosted platforms, integrating data between systems that reside outside the firewall, and managing data quality present some new challenges that result in increased data fragmentation. This session will provide an overview of cross-enterprise data integration solutions that make it possible for customers of SaaS providers to maximize the value of all their information assets and Informatica's strategy for cross-enterprise data integration solutions delivered as an on-demand service.

Top 5 Best Practices for Telecom Companies
[File Size: 0.88MB Estimated Download Time: 2.2min (56k), 0.4min (dsl)]
How are other Telecommunications companies around the globe improving relationships with their customers while saving money? In this session we share the Top 5 Best Practices - practical ways for you to leverage your RightNow investment.

1:30 - 2:45

RightNow Voice
[File Size: 0.11MB Estimated Download Time: 0.3min (56k), 0.1min (dsl)]
So you have great web self-service. Now make voice self-service just as effective! Uncover new ways to enhance your phone-based customer contacts at this overview of new RightNow Voice capabilities.* Get details on how to make voice self-service fast and efficient so your customers get the information they need - now!

20 Great Ways to Enhance the Customer Experience
[File Size: 0.49MB Estimated Download Time: 1.2min (56k), 0.2min (dsl)]
This session presents a wide range of proven techniques for enhancing the customer service experience and improving contact center cost-effectiveness. Topics covered include SLA definitions, the use of Flash knowledge base content, product and category linking, incident color-coding, and optimized management of multiple interfaces.

Advanced Incident Management
[File Size: 0.08MB Estimated Download Time: 0.2min (56k), 0min (dsl)]

RightNow in Retail:
Engaging Shoppers Throughout the Entire Purchase Process

[File Size: 1.99MB Estimated Download Time: 5min (56k), 1min (dsl)]
Learn how RightNow, along with three key Retail partners, come together to deliver a comprehensive strategy for consistent and superior shopping experiences. Learn how to execute this strategy both online and in store by engaging with your shoppers at each critical point in the purchase cycle. This is a unique opportunity to see an example of different technology companies working in unison towards one end; to engage the shopper through all stages of a purchase enabling a retailer to transition the shopper and dramatically impact conversion rates and the overall experience. From sending relevant email communications for higher response rates, contextual help within a shopping cart, or post-purchase support best-practices, see how this complete strategy can shorten sales cycles, increase sales, and elevate the overall experience.

RightNow in Government:
Multi-Channel Solutions for Superior Constituent Care

[File Size: 0.5MB Estimated Download Time: 1.3min (56k), 0.3min (dsl)]
Government agencies are constantly faced with the challenge of meeting constituent expectations across multiple channels such as the internet, email, phone, automated voice and chat with a growing volume and shrinking budgets. In this session you will learn how government agencies are leveraging RightNow solutions to move from constituent service to constituent care. Hear how agencies are successfully utilizing multiple channels to proactively provide their constituents - whether they are taxpayers, senior citizens, soldiers, or businesses operating in a particular market - with the right information, at the right time across their channel of preference.

3:15 - 4:30

Customer Community: Creating Value in Online Communities
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People join communities to share their similarities: To meet others like themselves; to be part of something bigger. Customers who contribute product reviews or post messages visit community websites nine times more often than sites without communities, remain twice as loyal, and buy almost twice as often. Even customers who read but don't contribute to community interaction are more frequent visitors and buyers. Join us for this breakout topic to discuss why customer communities are gaining traction as a top strategy for companies.

RightNow Feedback
[File Size: 1.69MB Estimated Download Time: 4.2min (56k), 0.8min (dsl)]
Exceed customer expectations by capturing feedback across all touch points - and then leverage that valuable information to build loyalty and increase sales. Insights on new RightNow Feedback capabilities* can help you amplify the voice of your customers across your entire organization to deliver the optimal customer experience, every time.

Best Practices, Integration
[File Size: 1.59MB Estimated Download Time: 4min (56k), 0.8min (dsl)]
To truly deliver a superior customer experience, it's often necessary to integrate RightNow with ERP applications, telephony infrastructure and other key enterprise systems. This session will provide details related to how these integrations can be administered and will offer real-world examples highlighting the significant business benefits that they deliver.

Best Practices, Voice Solution
[File Size: 0.36MB Estimated Download Time: 0.9min (56k), 0.2min (dsl)]
Voice remains a critical channel for marketing, sales and service. Attend this session to find out how you can radically transform your voice channel with automation and speech technologies - so that you can increase revenue, reduce costs, and deliver a competitively differentiated experience across all customer touch-points.

Advanced Knowledge Base
[File Size: 0.36MB Estimated Download Time: 0.9min (56k), 0.2min (dsl)]

The Natural Evolution of Disparate Contact Centers with IP Transformation
Dan Reed (XO Interactive) and David York (Genesys)

[File Size: 0.6MB Estimated Download Time: 1.5min (56k), 0.3min (dsl)]
Cost control and the desire for service excellence have driven contact center technology through four delivery phases: Historically these phases have demanded new technology, never requiring interoperability, thus leading to "service islands" or forklift upgrades. In this session, you'll learn how to harvest deployed assets from every model while leveraging the latest in technology to achieve unparalleled service and revenue attainment in the new paradigm. You'll see examples of all facets of communications and deployment models, working together, to drive unequalled service excellence.

RightNow in Education:
Using CRM to deliver on Recruiting, Retention and Advancement Strategies

[File Size: 0.59MB Estimated Download Time: 1.5min (56k), 0.3min (dsl)]
More than 100 institutions of higher learning around the globe are providing leading-edge, cost-efficient service to their constituents with RightNow's technologies. In this session you will learn how leading institutions are leveraging their investment in RightNow to improve recruitment and student services. This session will include a moderated roundtable to share best practices and experiences.

5:00 - 6:00

Creating a Dynamic Contact Center
Steve Rutledge, VP Product Marketing, Genesys

[File Size: 2MB Estimated Download Time: 5min (56k), 1min (dsl)]
Contact centers began their existence as basic service organizations focused on controlling costs. Over time, "customer service" became the new imperative for the contact center. Today, businesses realize that the contact center is in a unique position to serve as the gateway to customer interactions, and, as a result, companies expect their contact centers to generate revenue. This new expectation is straining the existing model of contact center operations. In this session, learn how companies obtain these three objectives-while managing fluctuating contact center variables - through the Dynamic Contact Center. Be part of the discussion about how companies can incorporate Dynamic Contact Center capabilities into their existing operations to start realizing the benefits today.

RightNow Service
[File Size: 3.47MB Estimated Download Time: 8.7min (56k), 1.7min (dsl)]
Make every contact count across every communication channel! Heighten the experience of your customer interactions via the phone, web, email, chat, or in person. This overview of the latest eService and Contact Center capabilities* offers insights to help you deliver consistently excellent customer service across all channels of communication.

Best Practices, Contact Center
[File Size: 0.4MB Estimated Download Time: 1min (56k), 0.2min (dsl)]
Learn how to improve your organization's delivery against key performance indicators and drive best in class call center performance using RightNow CRM.

Best Practices, Knowledge Base
[File Size: 0.09MB Estimated Download Time: 0.2min (56k), 0min (dsl)]
A great knowledge base minimizes incident volume and maximizes customer understanding. This session provides an overview of best practices for analyzing how well your knowledge base works, as well as tips and techniques for improving searchability and navigability.

Advanced Analytics
[File Size: 0.08MB Estimated Download Time: 0.2min (56k), 0min (dsl)]

Improving Customer Experience with RightNow's Partners
Moderator: Dean Brown, Vice President of Channels, RightNow Technologies

[File Size: 0.25MB Estimated Download Time: 0.6min (56k), 0.1min (dsl)]
Join RightNow's Vice President of Channel's, Dean Brown for an interactive panel discussion with some of our strategic partners. During this session you will gain insight into RightNow's partner ecosystem and learn how our partners have been successful in enhancing RightNow's deployments and helped customers improve customer experiences while reducing costs.

Participants in this session are:

  • Pervasive Software: Pervasive is the most widely used SaaS integration solution worldwide because it provides the richest connectivity, fastest time to value and lowest cost.
  • CosmoCom: CosmoCom provides an all-IP, universal access contact center system that is the platform of choice for more top tier network service providers worldwide than any other product of its kind.

Case Study: HomeAgain Discovers Ease of CRM Development
Philip Spampinato, HomeAgain Manager of Customer Care
Rex Brown, Director of Sales at West Corporation

[File Size: 0.59MB Estimated Download Time: 1.5min (56k), 0.3min (dsl)]
More and more companies are realizing the benefits of maximizing their existing investments in personnel, processes and programs by blending them with state-of-the-art platform technology and an effective CRM package. In this session, you'll learn how hosted solutions, using RightNow tools, have enabled one such company, HomeAgain, a division of Schering Plough, to seamlessly integrate information from several data sources servicing their existing customer base into a robust customer self servicing tool. Additionally, discover how HomeAgain is using new agent tools to identify their existing customer base and providing this information to the servicing agent for increased efficiency and a more personal customer interaction.

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