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business operations and service level management

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Call Center Outsourcing
The do's and don't of call center outsourcing, Creating a successful outsourcing relationship. In an ideal world a contact center outsourcing relationship should see the provider as a seamless extension of the company's business model. The relationship represents a clear transformation of vision, mission, strategy and needs from one...
Tags: SLA, Call-center, Relationship, Service Objective, Call Centers, Outsourcing, Service Level Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
The Do's and Don't of Call Center Outsourcing
The do's and don't of call center outsourcing, Creating a successful outsourcing relationship. In an ideal world a contact center outsourcing relationship should see the provider as a seamless extension of the company's business model. The relationship represents a clear transformation of vision, mission, strategy and needs from one...
Tags: SLA, Call-center, Relationship, Service Objective, Call Centers, Outsourcing, Service Level Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Cornerstones Of Post-Sales Service Excellence
Equipment manufacturers in industries are striving to achieve higher profit margins and retain clients through value-added services that differentiate them from the competition. Customers in these industries demand the highest reliability levels of equipment availability and are willing to pay a premium for these services. This compresses allowable response time...
Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Logistics, Service, Post-sales Service, Supply Chain, Performance Management, Service Level Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2003-01-01
SLAs For Managing Applications Development Outsourcing
Outsourcing is the process of procuring services from outside vendor rather than developing it in-house. Outsourcing deals that include applications development are increasingly common. However, organizations struggle with suitable service level agreements in the aforesaid area. The paper examines the avenues to measure and manage such outsourcing deals. ...
Tags: Application Development, SLA, Outsourcing, Service Level Management, Software Development, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management, Software/Web Development
White papers 2001-11-16
Blueprint For An Exchange Service Level Agreement
The Service Level Agreement SLA is a legal document that spells out the specifics of the exact services and service levels between a company and an outsourcing vendor. The SLA process is the methodology adopted by the vendor in rendering the aforesaid services. The paper details the mechanics behind a...
Tags: SLA, Pro Exchange, Service Level Management, Outsourcing, It Operations, It service Management, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2003-01-01
The Forgotten Five: What Your SLA Does Not Cover
In the IT business domain, the Service Level Agreement SLA is a contract between an organization and the outsourcing vendor that spells out the terms and conditions of the service between the aforesaid entities. It is a tool to monitor the effective enforcement of the service clauses. However, there are...
Tags: SLA, Cedar Key Ventures, Service Level Management, Outsourcing, It Operations, It service Management, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2000-06-12
Managing BPM: To O or Not to O
The paper provides a perspective that evolves from the Supply-Chain Operations Reference SCOR framework, and then some more interesting perspectives about what seems to be evolving. SCOR provides an excellent process reference to support 'globalized' supply-chain, enabling an easy language to describe material flow, workflow, and transaction flow between companies...
Tags: Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard Co., BPM, SCOR, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Outsourcing, Business Process Automation, Service Level Management, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management
White papers 2005-07-01
Enterprise Management
The client is a leading agribusiness company. The client runs SAP at multiple locations globally. Because of multi-location and multi installation nature, the administration and supports costs were very high. There was an urgent need to have a resource pool of trained SAP resources and to reduce the total cost...
Tags: Enterprise Management, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Help Desk, Roi/Tco, Service Level Management, Call Centers, Outsourcing, Utility Computing, It Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It service Management, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
Case studies
Homeloan Management Limited: Provider of Back-Office Processes to the Financial Services Industry Takes Control of a Growing Business
Homeloan Management Limited is the UK's foremost provider of systems and process outsourcing solutions to the mortgage sector. HML needed a solution that could help it proactively diagnose issues with both its own and its customers' systems to ensure that service level agreements were met. The solution provided was a...
Tags: Solution, Financial, Back-office, Outsourcing, Service Level Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It service Management
Case studies
Support and Enhancement of SAP Applications for a Fortune 500 Company
To manage growing business needs, a Fortune 500 company implemented SAP R/3 at its USA and UK geographies, while the other geographies were running on legacy systems. The client was looking forward to reduce dependency over multiple technologies by migrating most of the applications to SAP. Wipro provided end-to-end services...
Tags: Wipro Technologies, SAP AG, Fortune 500 Company, Hardware Upgrade, Service Level Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Hardware, It Operations, It service Management, Software, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
Case studies
Sun Micro Stops Handling Its Parts Management in Pieces
Sun fell on hard times after 2000, with the dot-com crash and a plunge in sales. When business declined, it could no longer mask the inadequacies in its organization. Sun set out to fix the problem on a number of fronts. One of its biggest efforts came in the area...
Tags: Keller International Publishing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Supply Chain, Service Level Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management
Case studies 2005-02-01
Change Management: A CA IT Service Management Process Map
CA's IT Service Management ITSM Process Maps provide a clear representation of the ITIL best practice framework. It uses the analogy of subway or underground system transport maps to illustrate how best to navigate a journey of continuous IT service improvement. Each map details each ITIL process track, the ITIL...
Tags: Service Management, Change Management, Computer Associates International Inc., ITIL, It Services, Service Level Management, Process Improvement, It Operations, It service Management, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2006-06-01
Oblicore for SLM, BSM and BPM
Service Level Management SLM, Business Service Management BSM and Business Process Management BPM are different yet related disciplines for managing, monitoring and reporting IT and business processes. This paper describes high-level differences between the disciplines and explains how Oblicore supports them from a service provider and receiver perspective. Oblicore Guarantee...
Tags: Business Process, Discipline, BPM, Oblicore, Oblicore Guarantee, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Service Management, Service Level Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Software
White papers 2005-02-01
Structure Of Service Level Agreements (SLA) In IT Outsourcing: The Construct And Its Measurement
The increased reliance of companies on IT outsourcing has turned management attention to a set of skills of managing relationships with service providers. While practitioners proclaimed that a key to managing outsourcing relationships was with SLA, there existed very little understanding of how effectiveness and impact of SLA on IT...
Tags: SLA, Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Service Level Management, Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, It service Management, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2006-06-25

Additional Resources

Risk Denial From the Top? Companies Overlook and Under-Manage the Business Risks of IT Project and Service Delivery
Information technology plays a central role in companies' execution of competitive strategy and business operations, say finance executives in a new survey from CFO Research Services. But research results make it clear that uneven management of IT projects and services poses material risks to strategy, business operations, and...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Information Technology, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-09-21
Best Buy Reorganizes Stores to Face Wal-Mart, Costco and the Mass Market Threat
Trying to determine just what Best Buy will accomplish with its store reorganization is difficult. The company is reluctant to definitively explain its actions and goals, substituting the mantra: We want to get employees out in front of customers. Now, certainly there it truth in that, but, in practice, its...
Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Costco Wholesale Corp., Home Entertainment, Mike Duff, Personal Technology, Retail, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Blog posts 2009-04-17
nLayers Announces Certified Integration with HP OpenView Operations and Becomes Platinum Level Business Partner; nLayers InSight Brings Award-Winning IT Service Discovery and Mapping Capabilities to HP OpenView Customers
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- nLayers, a leader in IT service discovery, today announced that the award-winning nLayers InSight application discovery and mapping solution has achieved a certified integration with HP OpenView Operations, and nLayers has also become an HP Platinum Business Partner. nLayers is the first provider of agentless IT...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.
Research articles 2006-01-16
Process Control and Modeling in BPM : Advanced Modeling, Analytics, and Goal Management: Critical Components of Comprehensive BPM
This paper describes the Global 360 Advanced BPM Intelligence with which companies can track and measure their performance based on real-time feedback, identify problem areas earlier, evaluate process changes and results more quickly, and spot opportunities for improvement. Goal Management enables them to optimize resource utilization in a manner consistent...
Tags: BPM, Analytics, Global 360 Inc., Business Plan, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2004-12-22
Keynote Hosting Total Performance Management Symposium in Washington, D.C. on September 23rd
SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) --John Monroe, Editor of Federal Computer Week to Deliver Opening Presentation on Performance Challenges Facing Government Agencies Today --Symposium Targeted at Government and Commercial Sector IT Executives Responsible for Online Applications and Operations --Learn Best Practices for Service Level Management...
Tags: Total Performance Inc.
Research articles 2004-09-16
Corvis and Clear to provide comprehensive optically optimized networking management solution to carriers - Business - Brief Article
Clear has announced a solution partnership with Corvis Corp. Together, Clear and Corvis will offer Corvis' customers enhanced fault and performance management capabilities and service level agreement SLA monitoring and reporting. This solution allows long-distance carriers, inter-exchange carriers, local exchange carriers and MSOs to monitor and maintain their networks, thereby...
Tags: carrier, Clear, Corvis, network, NETWORKING
Research articles 2002-02-28
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