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Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

48.01 7899.52 1492.49 984.32

3.97
167.61
73.37
24.88

8.27% 2.17%
5.17%
2.59%

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 

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

19 7/8
6
11 3/8
33 7/8
1 3/16
2 1/8
1 1/8
5 1/16
8
4
4
2 1/16
15 3/8
8
2 1/2
31 1/2
7 15/16
1 13/32
8 3/16
2 1/8
13 5/8
7 3/8
3 1/2

3 5/16
1
1 7/8
5 7/16
1/8
3/16
3/32
13/32
5/8
1/4
1/8
1/16
1/8
0
0
- 1/16
- 1/16
- 1/32
- 3/16
- 1/16
- 1/2
- 5/8
- 3/8

20.00%
20.00%
19.74%
19.12%
11.76%
9.68%
9.09%
8.72%
8.47%
6.67%
3.23%
3.13%
0.82%
0.00%
0.00%
-0.20%
-0.78%
-2.17%
-2.24%
-2.86%
-3.54%
-7.81%
-9.68%



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What Did You Do For National Customer Service Week?

National Customer Service Week is an annual event, officially proclaimed by the U.S. Congress in 1992, devoted to recognizing the importance of customers and customer service and honoring the people on the customer service frontlines. This week, October 5-9, we want to take this occasion to restate to you our commitment to customer service. Any comments or suggestions about our news service can be directed to info@realmarket.com.

Companies Seek Solutions to E-Mail Floods

Many companies are unprepared for the deluge of messages from customers who bypass 800 numbers in favor of e-mails. Read what Internet Week has to say about how people hand e-mail customer interactions at http://www.iw.com/print/current/webdev/19981005-companies.html

KPI Technologies Inc. Announces KPI Manager with Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services

KPI Technologies Inc. announced today the successful port of their KPI Manager 2.0 product to Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0 Beta 3 OLAP Services. The KPI ManagerTM version for Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services will be delivered by December 31, 1998, leveraging the OLAP functionality to be included with SQL Server 7.0.

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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