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RightNow Helps Sony Online Entertainment Provide Exceptional Gaming Experience with In-Game Support PDF E-mail
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
RightNow® Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) today announced that worldwide gaming leader Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is using the company’s on demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to handle global customer support issues across its web self-service, email, chat and call center channels.  RightNow helps SOE provide customers worldwide with consistently accurate information regardless of how they contact the company.  Additionally, RightNow’s solution has helped SOE support a diversified customer base and expanding product line, while minimising contact centre costs. 


RightNow provides SOE with a complete global view of customer activities.  With interfaces in French, German, Japanese, and Russian, SOE delivers consistent and relevant knowledge to customers, regardless of location or time zone.  The solution also provides SOE customer service personnel worldwide full visibility into all of the customer data captured in a central knowledge foundation.  This information allows them to conveniently and effectively answer questions and resolve issues.

SOE has also integrated RightNow with its custom in-game support tools, allowing gamers to ask questions from within active gaming sessions.  The RightNow technology automatically captures a variety of information about the gamer, including character’s attributes and location, so SOE staff can efficiently answer incoming questions without interrupting the player’s gaming experience.  In fact, SOE is now able to respond to in-game help requests 40% faster since implementing RightNow.

“The online gaming market by its very nature requires us to be much more highly engaged with our online customers than is needed for the typical offline game customer,” says Brad Wilcox, SOE executive director of global customer service.  “RightNow enables us to cost-efficiently deliver the premium-quality customer experience that differentiates our brand.”

SOE takes advantage of RightNow’s powerful analytics technology, which enables the company to quickly ascertain the current top support issues and cost effectively drive smarter, more market-driven development decisions.

“As a customer service manager, it’s great to be able to present our game development teams with the hard numbers they need to make the best possible business decision,” explains Wilcox. “Our customers and our company both win when we are acting on real information, instead of just anecdotal feedback.”

About RightNow Technologies
RightNow (NASDAQ: RNOW) delivers the high-impact technology solutions and services organisations need to cost-efficiently deliver a consistently superior customer experience across their frontline service, sales and marketing touch-points. Approximately 1,800 corporations and government agencies worldwide depend on RightNow to achieve their strategic objectives and better meet the needs of those they serve. RightNow is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. For more information, please visit www.rightnow.com.

RightNow is a registered trademark of RightNow Technologies, Inc. NASDAQ is a registered trademark of the NASDAQ Stock Market.

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