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- Pricing and Revenue Optimization: A Manufacturing Perspective
- Pricing and revenue optimization is the process of intelligently using a combination of market, customer, product, promotion, and supply-and-demand data to improve business margins by either increasing unit prices or increasing gross revenues. This process seeks intelligent tradeoffs among various competing objectives consistent with an organization's business strategy. ...
- Tags: Optimization, Manufacturing, Pricing Strategy, Revenue Optimization, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
- White papers 2005-10-10
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- Workforce Optimization: A Business Process
- Over the past few years, WorkForce Optimization WFO has evolved from an abstract concept into a viable reality, with the market projected to account for more than $1 billion in revenue from contact center investments by 2008. The cold, hard reality of today's economy is that nearly every organization must...
- Tags: Business Process, Optimization, Contact Center, Workforce, Call Centers, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-06-08
- Workforce Optimization: People, Processes & Technology Working Together
- The pressure to improve revenue and profitability while maintaining customer and employee satisfaction persists. To maintain growth, and avoid falling behind, contact center leaders must now take the components of operational excellence they have assembled and find a way to build upon that success. In short, they must optimize. This...
- Tags: Optimization, NICE Systems Ltd., Workforce, Call Centers, It Operations
- White papers 2006-04-20
- Optimization With SAS/OR: What It Is, What's New, and How It Adds Value
- SAS/OR 9.1.3, Release 3.1 continues the initial release of a completely new suite of powerful, accessible optimization procedures. This roster of new procedures includes production versions of OPTMODEL for powerful and accessible building and solution of optimization models, OPTLP for linear optimization, and OPTQP for nonlinear optimization. New experimental features...
- Tags: Optimization
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Admission Control Algorithms for Revenue Optimization With QoS Guarantees in Mobile Wireless Networks
- This paper proposes and analyzes call admission control algorithms integrated with pricing for revenue optimization with Quality of Service QoS guarantees to serve multiple service classes in mobile wireless networks. Traditional admission control algorithms make acceptance decisions for new and handoff calls to satisfy certain QoS constraints such as the...
- Tags: Algorithm, QoS, Admission, Mobile, Optimization, Network, Wireless Network, Engineering
- White papers 2006-07-21
- Microsoft Webcast: Infrastructure Optimization (Part 01 of 11): Realize the Value of IT Investments
- As an IT manager, one can use infrastructure optimization to realize the value of the company's IT infrastructure investments and make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset. Ultimately, infrastructure optimization helps organizations connect with people, information, and business processes to increase market responsiveness and helps eliminate inefficiencies. To that end,...
- Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- 1-Hour Search Engine Optimization Crash Course (exe)
- Free 1-hour search engine optimization crash course on the basics of search engine optimization and how to submit to search engines. The course is designed for complete search engine optimization beginners. Suitable for all ages. No experience whatsoever is required. The course is written by Michael Wong, a search engine...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2003-11-21
- The Next Step Forward in Campaign Optimization
- Marketing Optimization is the key to maximizing one's profitability - helping he or she reach the right customer through the best channel, given the available resources. This webcast discusses the significance of marketing optimization in today's marketplace.
- Tags: Optimization, SAS Institute, Marketing Optimization, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Webcasts
- How to Ensure Reliable WAN Optimization
- The benefits of using WAN optimization are straight forward. Application acceleration, branch IT consolidation, and WAN bandwidth expense reduction. However, selecting the best WAN optimization solution can be a daunting challenge, given the fact that vendors use different architectures and implementations. This webcast will help to make a well-informed decision,...
- Tags: Optimization, WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- Marketing Optimization - An Introduction
- Companies today have to make difficult decisions about targeting the right customers with the right offers while staying within budget and channel capacities, and without cannibalizing future sales or saturating customers with too many messages. Optimization is a process that resolves these complex issues by balancing the constraints of an...
- Tags: Optimization, SAS Institute, Marketing Research, Marketing
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Identified Customer and Pricing Initiatives to Drive Growth and Drive Business Results
- A food wholesaler conducted a study to identify pricing, account management and revenue optimization strategies to improve profit and growth. This national food wholesaler wanted a thorough, strategic examination of customer pricing, account management and revenue optimization to drive growth and profitability. IBM combined industry experts from IBM Global Business...
- Tags: Food, Pricing Strategy, IBM Corp., Pricing, Marketing Research, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- A New Approach to Contact Center Optimization
- Contact center managers are hearing a great deal from vendors and analysts about optimization. The definition of optimization varies depending on who is discussing it, but most approaches tend to focus on improving agent performance. An alternative approach is to take a holistic view of optimization that not only considers...
- Tags: Optimization, Contact Center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-03-11
- Key Considerations for WAN Optimization
- The presenters of this webcast help to understand why WAN optimization must interoperate with application and network performance management. They will also provide an action plan for getting the most value from WAN optimization and provide recommendations for avoiding common pitfalls.
- Tags: Optimization, WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- Transforming the Contact Center With Performance Optimization
- Contact centers have a position of great strategic importance in many organizations. They are a critical contact channel with the customer, and have their finger on the pulse of the customer in ways no other part of the enterprise does. Call centers play a critical role in controlling costs, developing...
- Tags: Performance, Optimization, Contact Center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Performance Management, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Utilizing Spreadsheet Solver Methods to Determine Optimal Beam Geometry
- The spreadsheet solver method has proven very successful as students at both upper and lower division are experiencing meaningful single-criterion optimization in addition to finding optimization applications in their other coursework. This paper will describe optimization implementation and present some sample optimization results at both levels using spreadsheet solver method...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet Solver Method, Productivity
- White papers 2005-10-26
- An Introduction to Telco Revenue Assurance
- Telco Revenue Assurance is quickly becoming the new "Buzzword" in the industry, but how many people really understand what it is, how it works, and how it can be used to effectively solve problems? The presenter of this webcast will give a practical overview of Revenue Assurance and why it...
- Tags: Telecommunications Company, SAS Institute, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications
- Webcasts
- J2ME Game Optimization Secrets
- This paper describes the role that code optimization plays in writing fast games for mobile devices. It discusses why optimization is necessary and why it is often best NOT to optimize. The paper explains the difference between high-level and low-level optimization and shows how to use the Profiler utility that...
- Tags: Optimization, J2ME, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-09-01
- The VPN Conjecture Is True
- Robustness has become one of several paradigms used to address data uncertainty in optimization. While the input data may not be known perfectly, it assumes that each input comes from some known bounded region or universe of legal inputs. Robust optimization then seeks an optimal solution that is valid for...
- Tags: VPN, McGill University, Optimization, VPN Conjecture, Robustness, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-14
- CIO insights from IBM: IT optimization to meet business goals
- The need for IT optimization is nothing new. But as CIOs are increasingly called upon to drive business strategy, they need to take a new look at their IT optimization goals. They still need to boost efficiency and cut costs—but those efforts must be balanced with the organization's need for...
- Tags: CIO, IBM Corp., information technology
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Gartner Report: Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers
- This Gartner Magic Quadrant Report evaluates Blue Coat WAN Optimization solutions against competing products based on each company's Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Available here as a free download, "Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, 2007" explores what you need to know about acquiring WAN optimization capabilities.
- Tags: Quadrant, Gartner Inc., Blue Coat Systems Inc., WANs, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-12-14
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