A guest post by David Vap, Group Vice President, 
Oracle Applications Product 
Development 
  In my previous post, I talked about taking three concrete steps to improve 
your customers' overall experiences: 1) understand your customer, 2) empower 
your ecosystem, and 3) adapt your business. 
 
  To do these effectively and efficiently, it's important to find the right 
technology that can bridge the gaps across your channels, interactions, 
departments, and repositories.
 
  
Oracle has spent the past three years and more than six billion dollars 
acquiring and developing some of the world's best-of-breed applications. The 
result is the most comprehensive customer experience (CX) portfolio offering in 
the World - bar none: 
 
   
    ATG Best in Class Selling Experiences 
    Fatwire Best in Class Marketing Experiences 
    Inquira Best in Class Support Experiences 
    Endecca Best in Class Search Experiences 
    RightNow Best in Class Service Experiences 
    Vitrue & Involver Best in Class Social Marketing 
    Collective Intellect Best In Class Social 
Listening 
   
  We don't expect organizations to eat the CX elephant in one bite, nor should 
they try to. There are key strategic initiatives within each of the four main 
pillars of our customer experience offering for which we deliver solutions: 
 
  1. Customer Experience for Marketing 
 
   
    Social Listening and Engagement 
    Social Marketing 
    Marketing Websites 
    Demand Generation and Lead Management 
    Marketing and Loyalty Management 
   
  2. Customer Experience for Commerce 
 
   
    Search, Navigation & Content Delivery  
    Cross-Channel Commerce 
    Targeting & Product Recommendations 
    Social Commerce 
    Order Management & Fulfillment 
    Retail Store Operations 
   
  3. Customer Experience for Sales
 
   
    Sales Force Automation 
    Social Selling 
    Territory & Quota Management 
    Revenue Forecasting 
    Partner Relationship Management 
    Quote to Cash 
    Incentive Compensation 
   
  4. Customer Experience for Service
 
   
    Cross-Channel Customer Service  
    Knowledge Management 
    Social Customer Service 
    Eligibility Management 
    Contracts, Assets, and Entitlements 
    Industry-Specific Solutions 
    eBilling 
   
  
Oracle's customer experience portfolio is socially infused at each layer of 
our pillars rather than simply bolted on as a side process. This combines with 
the power of the Cloud to run the parts of the solution that need the access, 
efficiency, and agility from a managed infrastructure. You can get the 
compliance control from on-premise backbone infrastructure systems that run your 
business and don't change that often. 
  Please take advantage of our teams of 
Oracle customer experience 
professionals and our key agency and technology partner ecosystem. They can help 
you develop strategic solution roadmaps that build and deliver customer 
experience and that are tailored to your business needs and objectives.
 
  No one has built a better customer service portfolio to manage the entire 
customer journey than 
Oracle. It is backed by CX thought leadership programs, a 
commitment from our executives, and a worldview that your technology decisions 
must be driven by your customer experiences to succeed. 
 
  If you’d like to follow up on this conversation, please leave a comment or 
contact me at 
[email protected]. 
You can get more information on Oracle’s complete customer experience solution 
here.