We wanted to let everyone know that we'll be attending and exhibiting at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2012 East, “Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business,” on June 26-27 in New York. The team will demo how the new Version 6.4 of its ClickFox Customer Experience Analytics (CEA) platform enables organizations to analyze data from all customer touch points and provides a roadmap of each customer's…

Summer is a usually the time when horror movies hit the theaters. With #FrustrationFridays, a weekly Twitter meme and blog column we share some of the worst customer experience nightmares we received in our Customer Tipping Point Survey . Here are a few more horror stories and our Customer Experience takeaways:

I was having problems downloading a ring tone to my son's cell phone from the web…

The report , which describes ClickFox as the “most prominent” vendor in the contact center market, notes that consumer behavior is changing with the emergence of newer service channels like web and mobile: “The rapid uptake of web-based collaboration tools such as social media make understanding customer behavior across all channels a crucial part of the effort to provide stellar customer experiences.” Ovum analyst, Aphrodite Brinsmead, also notes that “A greater number of customer…

ClickFox today announced that it will host an industry webinar featuring Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Principal Analyst, Elizabeth Herrell on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 1:00 pm Eastern. The complimentary webinar, “What Consumers Really Want”, will present the findings from recent online surveys where consumers answered questions about their interaction preferences and most frustrating customer service issues. Herrell will draw on her recent report, “ Real-Time Analytics for Contact Centers …

ClickFox is one of several vendors featured in a recent Forrester Research report titled "Real Time Analytics for Contact Centers" which points at a lack of meaningful customer data as a major challenge for contact centers. According to the report:

"Most metrics that report on an agent's call handling do not report on the customer's experience while navigating multiple contact center channels, such as IVRs, email, and the Web. Although typical reporting practices segment data…

We've added a few links on the right hand side of the blog and wanted to point them out to our readers. They are in alphabetical order and here's a short description of each one: Customer Experience Matrix - Written by David Raab, a consultant specializing in marketing technology and analysis, this blog presents information about technologies and business issues that help your organization make the most of every customer interaction. Customer Experience Matters…

Consumers and enterprises are expected to increase interactions with their financial service providers in response to the current economic climate as they strive to re-evaluate finances and shift around assets. Each of these interactions represents the potential to keep or lose important customers, according to Forrester Research, which two years ago defined customer experience as "one of the key skills for survival in the financial services industry." That prediction seems even more relevant today as financial…

We recently announced another event in the ClickFox Webinar Series. Here are the details: Today's customers have a variety of preferences and expectations that make managing customer experience data complex. The comprehensive customer experience is defined by the collective interactions they have with the enterprise, and the ability to analyze these interactions enables a company to proactively provide an optimal experience at every touch point. Register today! Join ClickFox and featured guest…

A few days ago Gartner issued a press release where they discussed recent analyst feedback stating that BPM (business process management) solutions have helped companies reduce costs by as much as 20% in the first year of use. The article says:

As companies try to find cost optimization opportunities during the economic downturn, business process management (BPM) investments can provide a cost savings of as much as 20 percent within the first…

Over the past month several top industry analysts have been writing about their focus for 2009. Here are a couple of examples: Bruce Temkin of Forrester Research , who writes the excellent Customer Experience Matters blog , says his core focus is to dramatically improve the customer experiences that large organizations deliver. This encompasses three core components:

1. Insights into what drives consumers.
2. Best practices…