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Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

60.64 8028.77 1743.59 1044.75

-0.17
26.78
23.25
2.03

-0.28% 0.33%
1.35%
0.19%

Support Stock Index (SSDEX) is the support industry's health barometer. It is a measure of the stock performance for companies that sell products and services to the support / customer interaction industry. On 12/31/96, SSDEX's value was set at 100, making it easy to see how the industry is performing as a group.


Today's Gainers and Losers

   Company   

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 Change 

 Percent 

Applix
Melita
Precision
Inference
Datawatch
Aegis Comm
ICT Group
Teletech
Clarify
Sykes
Remedy
SPS Pay
Aspect
Vantive
Peregrine
APAC Tel.
Pegasystems
Astea
SITEL
Firstwave
West Tel
IMA
Siebel

3 1/4
10 1/8
6 11/32
4 3/8
1 1/2
2 1/8
2 5/16
9 3/4
10 1/4
16 13/16
9 1/16
31 7/16
26 9/16
7 21/32
40 1/16
5 1/4
16 1/4
2 1/16
3 3/16
3
10
6 3/4
25 1/4

3/4
19/32
11/32
7/32
1/16
1/16
1/16
1/4
3/16
1/4
1/16
- 3/16
- 5/16
- 5/32
- 15/16
- 1/8
- 7/16
- 1/16
- 1/8
- 1/8
- 1/2
- 3/8
-1 9/16

30.00%
6.23%
5.73%
5.26%
4.35%
3.03%
2.78%
2.63%
1.86%
1.51%
0.69%
-0.59%
-1.16%
-2.00%
-2.29%
-2.33%
-2.62%
-2.94%
-3.77%
-4.00%
-4.76%
-5.26%
-5.83%



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HDI Tip of the Day
Very short abandon times suggest customer impatience either due to the availability of other competitive options or due to disgust from repeated unsuccessful attempts to reach your callcenter. Either are cause for concern and action. CallCenter Management by the Numbers by Jon Anton


      

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Knowledge-Track '98 Scheduled for October 11-13

Knowledge-Trak '98, ServiceWare's annual User Group event is scheduled for October 11-13, at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pa. The agenda includes general sessions on knowledge-based support, providing customer support online via the Web, and improving help desk productivity. Topics include customer applications, how to use ServiceWare products for maximum effect, and preparing for future technological advances. Register today at http://www.serviceware.com/knowledgetrak98/main.htm

Help Desks Get Helping Hand

Despite the fact that businesses are relying more than ever on Internet- and intranet-based applications, many help desks and customer service operations remain fractured and disconnected from the rest of the IT department. Suppliers of help desk software and services are attacking the problem with products designed to consolidate or even "out-task" help desk and customer service functions across a large enterprise. For the rest of this Internet Week article go to http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19980921S0043

Career Corner Update

The Career Corner is the industry's most comprehensive site for service / support jobs. Search for the latest service / support job postings at http://www.realmarket.com/jobs/career_search.html. We also provide links to other service / support job listings so you only have one place to go to find all the listed jobs on the Internet. Want to list a job? (http://www.realmarket.com/jobs/job_submit.html) Go ahead. . . it's free and we randomly highlight new posting right here to over 10,000 support professionals.

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Job Title
09/21/98Application Support Specialist
09/21/98Systems Consultant
09/21/98Support and Systems Integration
09/21/98Team Leader - Technical Support
09/21/98Solution Engineer


  Product News    

J.D. Edwards Announces Customer Service Management System to Extend Supply Chain Solution

J.D. Edwards(R) announced its Customer Service Management System (CSMS), the newest suite of J.D. Edwards' SCOREX (Supply Chain Optimization and Real-Time Extended Execution) solution. J.D. Edwards has integrated its customer service management applications with its OneWorld(TM) ERP solution, enabling organizations to deliver post-sales service and support offerings.

  Partner and Customer News    

Peregrine Systems Acquires Remote Control Technology From International Software Solutions

Peregrine Systems(R), Inc. today announced the acquisition of International Software Solutions's remote control technology. This technology enables support desk control of a user's desktop PC. PSI intends to integrate the technology in a new Remote Management offering bringing remote control capabilities to PSI's Infrastructure Management product line.

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