Company Profile


Answers.com, Inc.

Answers.com offers products that allow companies to have meaningful web enabled interactions with their customers. Companies like GE Plastics, CareerBuilder, and Florist.com have turned to Answers.com to power their online customer support tools. Answers.com's products allow companies to manage online inquiry volume while minimizing support costs. Answers.com specializes in offering companies self-service Q&A tools that answer their web site visitors' questions in at the lowest possible costs.  
 
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234 E. Colorado Blvd.
Suite 450
Pasadena   CA 91101
USA
(800)505-7155
(626)817-9889
www.answers.com
Sales@answers.com
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1999
Private
$5M - $10M
61
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Windows 95 Windows 98 Mac OS
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Core Products and Services

Self-Service Q&A Answers.com self-service Q&A allows customers to type their questions on a company's web site and automatically receive relevant responses. In the rare instances where an answer is not returned, the customer can send their question as an email to a company representative within seconds. Also, if a company uses Answers.com's Integrated Chat solution (which seamlessly combines the power of self-service Q&A with chat), customers have the ability to populate their question into a chat session for immediate live assistance. Through the blending of Answers.com's Answer Retrieval Technology (ART) and AnswerBase support, Answers.com's self-service Q&A delivers meaningful results to customer inquiries. Plus, as new questions are received and answered, the company's AnswerBase continues to grow.
 
Integrated Chat Through an agreement with !hey inc., Answers.com has blended their Self-service Q&A product with Chat. Now companies can offer their customers the benefits of live assistance while minimizing support costs through self-service Q&A.
 
Expert Answering System (EAS) Answers.com's Expert Answering System (EAS) comes standard with Answers.com's self-service Q&A. EAS allows companies to administer their Answers.com product. When questions are not answered through Answers.com's self-service Q&A, they can be sent to a company via email. These emails are sent to an EAS administrator who can route the questions to agents based on their areas of expertise. From this point, agents can provide responses and send them back to the customer. Administrators can also assign managers who can approve or reject the agent's responses.
 
AnswerBase Management System (AMS) Answers.com's AnswerBase Management System (AMS) is a standard feature that comes with their products. AMS allows clients to easily control their content by having the ability to add, modify, or delete Q&A pairs within seconds.
 

 

 

Representative Customers
Florist.com    Florist.com uses Answers.com's self-service Q&A to effectively respond to their Web site's visitor's questions.  
GE Plastics    Answers.com developed the functionality that allows visitors to GE Plastics Web sites (www.geplastics.com/resins and www.askEdison.com) to ask questions about GE Plastics in "plain English."  
PE Care    PE Care Answers their visitors' questions by using Answers.com's self-service Q&A.  
    
    
    

 

Major Partners
!hey inc.    hey inc., offers a specialized communications suite that enables businesses in a range of industries to communicate with their customers via the Web, phone and e-mail, delivering instant online conversations—proactive and personalized—with customer service representatives. !hey powers a live chat escalation option when combined with Answers.com's powerful Q&A tools gives companies the ability to make the most of every customer interaction.  
Talavara    Talavara is a leading developer of e-business solutions focused on data management, particularly in the areas of e-mail management, customer relationship management (CRM), search and retrieval of critical data; and other e-commerce solutions. Talavara's core competency is the ability to extract meaning from content using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, and apply it to the searching and analysis of e-mail, real-time transactions, documents, and catalogues. Talavara owns key broad technology patents in the area of understanding questions and extracting information from content.  
    
    
    
    

 

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