Pipeline Publishing, Volume 6, Issue 5
This Month's Issue:
Managing the End-User Experience
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Rationalizing Sales Management to
Improve Front-End Customer Experience

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channel agnostic.  The ConceptWave solution uses a common order model across several source channels, which means that orders can be viewed in a common format.

ConceptWave's solution has also helped in the handling and minimization of downstream issues by handling front end validations.  In addition ConceptWave's platform is the record keeper of the client's installed base, proving the MSO with a 360 degree view and the ability to up-sell for the first time.

Conclusion

Compared to tangible measures like revenue and cost, “customer experience” is difficult to measure.  Nonetheless, as service providers enter a more competitive market, and seek to act more like retailers, they are—as other industries have done in the past—beginning to understand its critical value in maximizing profits.  Given its importance, service providers ignore customer experience at their peril: first impressions matter.  Despite this fact, however, the “front end” of the customer experience process has often been neglected, partly due to its large—and increasing—complexity.

Finally, the profitability of new products, services, special offers, and customized bundles to enterprise customers has often been overlooked by service providers, simply

Service Providers ignore customer experience at their peril.


because of the sheer complexity of effectively measuring their costs.  By automating the tracking of cost and other critical information, a unified service management strategy allows CSPs to move beyond simple ARPU or other revenue measures towards a crisper understanding of profitability.  By making smart decisions based on profitability, CSPs can provide greater shareholder and customer value alike.

In this article, we have described how ConceptWave technology provides a highly versatile solution to the dual problems of inconsistent user experience and inability for product managers to launch products quickly and easily and with a view to profitability, slowing down time to revenue.  ConceptWave’s Unified Sales Management solution sets a new bar in the ability to solve these problems in a rapid-deployment model with low incremental cost.

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About ConceptWave
ConceptWaveŽ, a leading provider of telecom product catalog and order automation solutions, improves operations and facilitates multi-service product offering delivery. By working with communications service providers (CSPs) to leverage existing OSS investments, ConceptWave Order CareŽ suite of order management solutions delivers business transformation to seamlessly integrate offers and order fulfillment. For more information, visit www.conceptwave.com.

ConceptWaveŽ and ConceptWave Order CareŽ are registered trademarks of ConceptWave Software Inc.

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