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v. t. e. Customer relationship management ( CRM) is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amounts of information. [1] CRM systems compile data from a range of different communication channels, including a company's website, telephone (which ...
A service desk is a primary IT function within the discipline of IT service management (ITSM) as defined by ITIL. It is intended to provide a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to meet the communication needs of both users and IT staff, [7] and also to satisfy both Customer and IT Provider objectives. User refers to the actual user of the service ...
Customer support is a range of consumer services to assist customers in making cost-effective and correct use of a product. [ 9] It includes assistance in planning, installation, training, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrading, and disposal of a product. [ 9] These services may even be provided at the place in which the customer makes use of ...
An enterprise service bus ( ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It represents a software architecture for distributed computing, and is a special variant of the more general client-server model, wherein any application may behave as server or client.
Enterprise resource planning ( ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software —typically a suite of integrated applications —that an organization can use to collect, store, manage and interpret ...
A quality management system ( QMS) is a collection of business processes focused on consistently meeting customer requirements and enhancing their satisfaction. It is aligned with an organization's purpose and strategic direction ( ISO 9001:2015 ). [ 1] It is expressed as the organizational goals and aspirations, policies, processes, documented ...
Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the reduction of directly-employed staff. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is an alternative to the break/fix or on-demand ...
A service-level agreement is an agreement between two or more parties, where one is the customer and the others are service providers. This can be a legally binding formal or an informal "contract" (for example, internal department relationships). The agreement may involve separate organizations or different teams within one organization.