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Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

60.92 8108.84 1739.22 1048.69

0.28
80.07
-4.37
3.94

0.47% 1.00%
-0.25%
0.38%

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 

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

2 1/2
3 3/8
2 1/8
26
9 15/16
10 13/32
10 1/8
26 7/8
31 1/2
10 1/8
9 1/16
3 3/16
6 3/4
40
16 11/16
4 5/16
16
2 1/16
5 1/16
2 7/8
5 7/8
1 3/8
6 1/2

3/16
1/8
1/16
3/4
3/16
5/32
1/8
5/16
1/16
0
0
0
0
- 1/16
- 1/8
- 1/16
- 1/4
- 1/16
- 3/16
- 1/8
- 15/32
- 1/8
-1 5/32

8.11%
3.85%
3.03%
2.97%
1.92%
1.52%
1.25%
1.18%
0.20%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
-0.16%
-0.74%
-1.43%
-1.54%
-2.94%
-3.57%
-4.17%
-7.39%
-8.33%
-15.10%



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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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  General News    

ServiceWare Awarded U.S. Patent for Knowledge-Pak Format

ServiceWare Inc., a provider of online solutions that help companies answer questions from customers and from customers and employees, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a broad patent (U.S. Patent No. 5,797,135) for "Software Structure for Data Delivery On Multiple Engines." The patent relates to ServiceWare's Knowledge-Pak Format software code, which enables knowledge bases to be developed in a single data structure that can be ported to multiple delivery engines. Full Story - http://www.realmarket.com/news/serviceware092898.html

  Product News    

Vantive Ships New Release of Front-Office Enterprise Application Suite

The Vantive Corp. today announced the general availability of Vantive Enterprise Version 8, a major release of its integrated suite of applications that support call center, field service, sales, marketing and help desk functions. Vantive Enterprise Version 8 delivers enhancements to all of the Vantive solutions and includes two new web applications for customer self-service and channel management.

Acuity Broadens Web-based Customer Interaction Options With WebCenter Express

Acuity, a provider of Web-based customer relationship management solutions, today announced WebCenter Express(TM), an application that enables Web-centric businesses to improve ecommerce results and reduce customer service costs. The software integrates self-help with real-time interaction capabilities to offer customer service via the Web.

ActiveTouch Introduces Collaboration Application Server

ActiveTouch Inc. today introduced the ActiveTouch Server, a collaboration application server for Web-based commerce, customer care and conferencing applications. Enterprise application providers utilizing the ActiveTouch Server can blend in spontaneous, live data collaboration, telephony and managed messaging with their applications.

  Customer and Partner News    

Pegasystems and HP Deliver Highly Scalable Customer Relationship Management Solution

Pegasystems Inc., a provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, today announced the results of a recent benchmarking test on the midrange HP 9000 K570 Enterprise Server. The test resulted in a benchmark of 1.3 million transactions per hour, with an average transaction response time of less than 150 milliseconds.

Bell Advanced Communications Inc., Launches Silknet Software's eService

Silknet Software, Inc., today announced at ISPCON Fall `98 that Bell Advanced Communications, Inc., will use Silknet's eService 98(TM) customer service software solution to provide support to Bell Canada and BCTEL Interactive for the Sympatico Internet Service, a large Internet Service in Canada with over 300,000 customers.

Silknet Selected by HP to Provide Web-Centric Customer Service Solutions for ISP Program

Silknet Software, Inc., today announced that it has been selected by the Hewlett-Packard Company to provide customer service solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies as part of HP's ISP program. Silknet's eService 98(tm), a customer service solution, will be offered with HP hardware and software solutions.

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