For example, more companies are using it for marketing, finance and customer service.

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What's more, many jobs in the insurance industry use skills that are prevalent in fields like corporate finance, law and customer service, making a switch more feasible.

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Every Oracle CloudWorld event features tracks for the cloud can be used in Sales, Customer Service and Support, Finance and Operations, HR, and Applications Development.

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The corporate labs, offices, factories, warehouses, distribution centers, retail outlets, customer service, repairing outlets, and finance and accounting departments exist because of me, to serve and accommodate my needs and desires.

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Maybe someone in customer service went to school with someone in the finance department of a prospect you really want to close.

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The Flight Plan depicts five functional columns: Customer Service, Operations, People, Network, and Finance.

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Loan servicing is about transaction-processing, not customer service, points out Guy Cecala of Inside Mortgage Finance, a newsletter.

ECONOMIST: Mortgage restructuring

Customer service managers chat through a tin can phone and finance staffers smile at one another through a ticket window.

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Throughout that first week, we continued to provide critical services such as customer service, help desk, technology operations, and finance support for our global enterprise.

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