In one example, Get Satisfaction helped music service Rhapsody vastly decrease its customer support costs.
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For service providers this translates into the promise of reduced installation and support costs.
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These will come mainly from the aluminum and energy businesses and also central service and support costs.
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The vehicles need to be more fuel efficient than their predecessors and should require low logistical support costs.
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But the additional revenue comes with a cost of unhappy clients, high returns, and escalating customer support costs.
This includes mining, processing, and support costs as well as a review of contract services, parts and supplies, and salaries and wages.
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Since deploying a Microsoft Dynamics solution, Computer Aid has cut its billing cycle in half and reduced ERP support costs by 60 percent.
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The truth is the ISP business is characterized by wafer-thin margins, low barriers to entry, flat-rate pricing, intense national competition and high customer support costs.
The most important thing to understand about the estimated support costs for the F-35 is that they are projected over a 50-year period, through 2065.
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Indeed, Twitter will bear many of the support costs associated with any third-party paid Tweets, as Twitter receives support emails related to anything a user sees in a tweet stream.
Build a spreadsheet that quantifies the costs (loss in revenue, customer dissatisfaction, etc.) and benefits (reduced support costs, freed up engineers, happier employees) and get it in front of upper management.
And when I bump into a company that is juggling Apple or Google products, along with Microsoft applications in their workplace, I have to bump up their proposed implementation and support costs.
Based in Tokyo, Japan, OPTiM, provides solutions that reduce support costs for enterprises and is focused on evolving online experiences so that the Internet becomes something that you aren't even conscious of-like the air you breathe.
Better yet for the manufacturers, they don't have to deal with support costs on a lot of these boxes because the gamers gleefully break their warranties in pursuit of the most tricked-out, custom hot-rod-PC money can buy.
This update in earlier software has 300 new features that are said to reduce risk, slash costs by up to 50%, reduce administrative overhead by up to 80% and lower aggregate support costs by up to 35%.
With regard to the price of alternative modernization strategies, it already costs more each year to sustain the legacy fleet of tactical aircraft the F-35 will replace than the highest official projection of F-35 annual support costs.
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Three-quarters of the increases in F-35 support costs reported by the Pentagon have resulted from changes in the scope of work being analyzed or changes in the methodology for how costs should be calculated, rather than rising costs in the program.
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"Powerline networking between modems and set-top boxes is being used today by many broadband service providers to reduce capital expenses and support costs associated with delivering new triple play and IPTV services, " said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates.
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Obvious questions like how big the economy will be in 2065 or what it would cost to maintain the current air fleet through that year are left unanswered, so policymakers and legislators have little basis for comparing F-35 support costs with available resources or alternative modernization strategies.
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So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
We had bipartisan support on college costs, but we didn't have the Republican leadership's support on college costs.
Part of why the European Commission wants to finance Ireland is to support borrowing costs in Portugal, where unemployment is just about 20%.
Dealing with a larger and more intrusive government is another example where scale economies can justify a larger sized firm to support these costs.
When his colleagues contemplated project costs, they thought about development costs, hardware costs and software costs, but not about support and maintenance costs after the technology is implemented, for instance.
Germany needs to decide for itself what it wants pay: the cost of support or the costs of exit.
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Lhota has said the hikes were necessary because of inadequate state support and rising costs the agency couldn't contain, such as pensions.
Are the Quant-Pessimists right that demand for NGL cannot support the capital costs of extraction and bankruptcy for must extractors is imminent?
She said big increases in the premium offered to universities to support the additional costs of poorer students would be very welcome.
Here, CAC is cost of customer acquisition, MRR is monthly recurring revenue and software margin is the cash they keep for each customer after accounting for support and other costs.
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