Business applications include Customer Relationship Management, Regulatory Compliance, Contact Centers, Help Desks, Web Self-Service and Business Intelligence.

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It dis-intermediated manuals, help desks and frustration to enable consumers to plug and play their new equipment.

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Corporate help desks need to adapt to the post-PC age.

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While we have seen many forward-thinking companies alter their policies to allow outside devices into their organizations, most help desks are not able to offer support for the use of Microsoft applications on these devices.

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Creating new standards of performance, based on how long it takes staffers to resolve a problem over the phone, Kunze in 2001 extended the California and U.K. help desks to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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The UN has had to provide basic desks and computers to help the government function again.

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Try co-working and use a site like Loosecubes to help you locate spaces or offices with extra desks that are often available by the day.

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