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Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

53.16 8452.29 1693.86 1070.67

-1.10
-80.85
-8.78
-7.81

-2.07% -0.95%
-0.52%
-0.72%

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 

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

13 1/4
4
6 1/2
12 7/8
5 1/2
12 5/16
18 1/8
2 13/16
3
7 5/8
11 1/8
31 15/16
1 1/32
36 1/2
2 1/32
1 1/4
12 7/8
1 11/16
7 7/16
18 1/4
2 5/16
10 1/8
9 9/16

1 5/8
3/8
3/8
9/16
3/16
3/8
7/16
1/16
1/16
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
- 1/16
- 1/16
- 5/16
-1 3/8
- 3/16
-1 1/4
-3

13.98%
10.34%
6.12%
4.57%
3.53%
3.14%
2.47%
2.27%
2.13%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
-0.48%
-3.57%
-4.03%
-7.01%
-7.50%
-10.99%
-23.88%



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  General News    

Remedy Purchases BayStone Software

Remedy(R) Corporation today announced its next step into the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market with an agreement to purchase privately held BayStone Software. Under the agreement, Remedy will pay approximately $10 million dollars cash with various performance contingencies. BayStone is already built upon the Remedy core technology and BayStone was Remedy's first ISV.

ServiceWare Wins 1998 Best Practices Awards from Arthur Andersen

ServiceWare has been named a winner in two categories of Arthur Andersen's Best Practice Awards, a local and international awards program that recognizes the best business practices that lead to great performances among emerging small and mid-sized companies.

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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10/21/98Tivoli - Project Manager
10/21/98Technical Support Analyst
10/21/98Team Leader - Technical Support
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  Product News    

Internet/Digital Celular Dispatch Comes to the Help Desk

Lavelle Engineering Technologies, Inc. (LET), has announced plans to offer On+Site Dispatch(TM) technology, a software package which uses a combination of Internet and digital cellular telephone technologies to support a variety of dispatching needs, to the "help desk" market.

royalblue launches FrontOffice

royalblue has unveiled a new suite of integrated Customer Interaction Software (CIS) products. The royalblue FrontOffice suite comprises royalblue SupportCenter for customer support management, royalblue HelpDesk for IT and infrastructure support, royalblue ChangeManager for problem management and controlling change and royalblue InterChange for intelligent data delivery.

  Partner and Customer News    

RTS Software Provides Data General Worldwide Field Engineering Management

RTS Software announced at the AFSM International Conference and Expo that Data General has chosen the company's RTS Stock application to automate and manage the global, closed-loop logistics functions for the computer manufacturer's field engineering business. Data General Field Engineering will be using the RTS Stock module to manage the company's worldwide spare parts inventory and logistics functions at locations operated by Data General, as well as at third party repair and distribution facilities.

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