IBM Workplace for Customer Support has been voted one of "The Year's Ten Best Web Support Sites" for 2007 by the Association of Support Professionals!
From http://www.asponline.com/07awardsPR.html:
ASP Announces "Best Web Support" Winners for 2007
The Association of
Support Professionals (ASP) has announced the winners of its tenth annual "Ten
Best Web Support Sites" competition, a prestigious award that showcases
excellence in online service and support.
The 2007 winners include (in alphabetical order) eight Open Division entries—Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, Dell, IBM,
Juniper Networks, McAfee, Mentor Graphics, and Novell. In addition, two
companies—Articulate and Consona (formerly Made2Manage)—were named
winners in the Small Company Division.
Consona and McAfee were also named to the
ASP's Web Support Hall of Fame, which honors sites that have been named among
the "Ten Best" for at least four years. Other Hall of Fame sites include Cisco,
Cognos, Dell, Hewlett-Packard ITRC, Microsoft, Symantec, and think3.
The
award winners were selected by a panel of judges with expertise in Web support
design and implementation, using a scoring system based on 25 separate
performance criteria. The evaluation process covers the following areas:
- Overall usability, design, and navigation
- Knowledgebase and search implementation
- The major site development challenge
The ten winning sites will be profiled in a book called "The Ten Best
Web Support Sites of 2007," to be published by the ASP in June.
"During the ten-year span of this awards competition,
Web support has become dramatically more polished," says ASP executive director
Jeffrey Tarter. "It's not surprising that bigger companies are investing heavily
in self-service technology,because the return on investment is so compelling.
But much of what makes a site great is the result of good navigation, good
writing, and relentless attention to what customers want. These are qualities
that even the smallest company can build into a support site."
The
Association of Support Professionals is an international membership organization
for customer support managers and professionals. In addition to its annual "Ten
Best" awards, the ASP publishes research reports on a wide range of support
topics, including support compensation, services marketing, and fee-based
support.
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