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Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

58.13 7632.53 1612.33 986.39

-2.86
-210.09
-81.51
-30.66

-4.92% -2.68%
-4.81%
-3.01%

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   

   Close    

 Change 

 Percent 

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

6 5/8
2 5/8
31 9/16
24
3 7/8
10
3
1 7/8
9 7/32
2 3/8
9 17/32
16
37 3/4
1 7/8
9 3/8
8 3/8
26 1/2
4 5/8
3 1/4
14
6 11/16
1 3/16
5 1/16

5/8
1/8
1/16
0
0
- 1/8
- 1/16
- 1/16
- 13/32
- 1/8
- 19/32
-1
-2 1/2
- 1/8
- 11/16
- 5/8
-2 3/16
- 7/16
- 5/16
-1 3/8
- 11/16
- 3/16
- 15/16

10.42%
5.00%
0.20%
0.00%
0.00%
-1.23%
-2.04%
-3.23%
-4.22%
-5.00%
-5.86%
-5.88%
-6.21%
-6.25%
-6.83%
-6.94%
-7.63%
-8.64%
-8.77%
-8.94%
-9.32%
-13.64%
-15.63%



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HDI Tip of the Day
External metrics do not have the exactness that can be attributed to a computer or an accounting system, but instead are the ?soft? numbers of caller perception that express opinions or emotions which means qualitative measures. CallCenter Management by the Numbers by Jon Anton


      

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IBM and Orcom Solutions Launch Marketing Program For Outsourced Billing and Customer Service Solution

Orcom Solutions and IBM announced today that they would jointly market and deliver Orcom's outsourced billing and customer service solutions known as Total Customer Care (TCC) to the utility and energy service industry. The outsourced TCC solution is an offering combining marketing, billing, call center services, print mail operations, and remittance processing with managed operations, all under a single solution set.

Molloy Group Co-Sponsors Annual Meeting of the Customer Support Consortium

Molloy Group, Inc. will co-sponsor the annual meeting of the Customer Support Consortium (CSC). The conference, to be held October 7-9 in Palm Desert, CA, coincides with the general release of Version 1.2 of Molloy Group's Knowledge Bridge(TM) enterprise Knowledge Management software The CSC conference will provide an interactive forum for support executives from companies such as Intel, Microsoft and Oracle to discuss new strategies for the delivery of single- and multi-vendor customer support.

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0928/28onyx.html

PCWeek: A Lab's-eye view of Onyx

In PC Week Labs' exclusive review, Onyx Software Corp.'s recently released Customer Center 4.0 proved customizable and easy to use. It is also less expensive than its competitors and will provide a faster return on investment, but at the expense of some flexibility. For the complete review, visit http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0928/28onyx.html.

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