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Monday, October 12, 1998
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Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

48.44 8001.47 1546.08 997.71

0.43
101.95
53.59
13.39

0.88% 1.29%
3.59%
1.36%

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 

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

4
8 7/8
16 7/8
8 15/16
36 13/16
2 7/32
2 11/16
6 7/16
1 1/2
14 1/2
4 3/16
8 5/16
8 1/16
31 3/4
2 1/8
5 1/16
2 1/8
7 1/8
3 13/16
1 1/8
10 3/4
1 1/16
17 7/8

1/2
7/8
1 1/2
3/4
2 15/16
5/32
3/16
7/16
3/32
7/8
3/16
5/16
1/8
1/4
0
0
0
- 1/4
- 3/16
- 1/16
- 5/8
- 1/16
-2

14.29%
10.94%
9.76%
9.16%
8.67%
7.58%
7.50%
7.29%
6.67%
6.42%
4.69%
3.91%
1.57%
0.79%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
-3.39%
-4.69%
-5.26%
-5.49%
-5.56%
-10.06%



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  Product News    

New Oracle Application Provides Service Contracts Management

Oracle Corp. today announced Oracle(R) Enterprise Service Contracts, a service contract management application for the management of aftermarket service contract businesses. Oracle Enterprise Service Contracts automates the contract process and provides access to information contained in Oracle Front Office and ERP applications, allowing users to tailor service offerings to customer demand.

  Customer and Partner News    

Inference and Siebel Partner to Provide Knowledge-Based Customer Support and Field Service Solutions

Inference Corp. and Siebel Systems, Inc. today announced a joint development partnership to integrate Inference's CasePoint application with Siebel's customer service applications, including Siebel Service Enterprise, Siebel Call Center and Siebel Field Service. Customer service representatives using Siebel's Service Enterprise, Siebel Call Center, and Siebel Field Service products will now be able to answer customer questions and solve problems in a conversation-based manner from directly within the Siebel environment.

Aspect CTI System Integrated With Oracle Front Office Call Center and Telephony Suite

Oracle Corp. and Aspect Telecommunications today announced that Oracle has licensed the Aspect CTI System for integration with the Oracle(R) Call Center and Telephony suite. The agreement between the two companies facilitates information sharing by providing a bridge between Oracle Applications and automatic call distributors (ACDs) from vendors such as Lucent, Nortel, Rockwell and Aspect.

  General News    

Snapshot Survey Reveals Change in Customer Interaction Profiles

Based on responses to the last Real Market Snapshot Survey, readers stated they expect a very significant change in how customers will contact them 12 months from now. On average, the current customer interaction distribution profile is 80% phone, 10% email, 3% web and 7% other. When asked what profile they expected 12 months from now, respondents said they forecast 65% phone, 12% email, 17% web and 6% other.

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