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CRM April 2004 Martin Schneider |
Breaking From Tradition No longer is the midmarket the dominion solely of regional systems integrators. Enterprise vendors and hosted CRM services are changing the way midmarket customers implement their CRM systems.  |
CRM April 2004 Lisa Picarille |
The Art of War Enterprise CRM vendors and hosted service providers are in a heated battle against traditional midmarket CRM vendors for market share. In the end it is the customers who will win.  |
CRM September 1, 2004 Jason Compton |
The Siren Call of the Midmarket With so many choices and so many CRM vendors beating down the door to win midmarket business, customers need to be choosy without being paralyzed.  |
CRM March 1, 2004 |
Hot Seat: The Demand for On-Demand CRM CRM magazine posed the question, "Will hosted CRM ever eclipse on-site CRM in terms of popularity?"  |
CRM June 30, 2010 Lauren McKay |
7 Named Leaders in Forrester Wave of CRM Suites for Midsize Organizations The Forrester Wave: CRM Suites for Midsized Organizations '10: In his annual evaluation, analyst Bill Band identifies the top-performing options for midmarket CRM.  |
CIO March 1, 2003 |
Microsoft Joins Another Fray - Midmarket CRM Redmond is aiming its first business software built on the .Net platform at the small to midsize market. SalesForce.com, SalesLogix and others are the likely rivals in that segment.  |
CRM April 13, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
People Are the Most Important Part of the CRM Equation Customer focus starts at the very top of the organization.  |
CRM May 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Love Is in the Air I recently attended customer events hosted by Onyx and Salesforce.com, during which these vendors were spreading the love. The love of their products, that is. Going to these events gave me the opportunity to speak to customers face-to-face about the results they're seeing from CRM.  |
CRM June 2, 2003 Martin Schneider |
Hosts With the Most (Partners, That Is) ASP partnerships are aimed at giving customers robust CRM at a low price point. But are two vendors better than one?  |
CRM December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc.  |
CRM March 1, 2004 |
Just 1 Question Should companies expect their CRM vendors to help them use CRM to determine who their most profitable customers are?  |
CRM December 2003 Martin Schneider |
The Year in Preview How the major trends in 2003 will alter the CRM landscape over the coming year.  |
CFO March 15, 2004 Anne Stuart |
Stuck on the Middle Enterprise software companies try to lure smaller customers with tailored products and lower prices.  |
CRM August 27, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Don't Initiate CRM Until You Ask These Questions I had the opportunity recently to meet with executives at five of the largest CRM vendor companies. They discussed vendor accountability and the one question companies must ask their prospective CRM vendors.  |
CRM August 2011 |
The 2011 CRM Market Leaders Spending on CRM software is expected to see the largest increase of all the application software markets worldwide. Here's a look at the market leaders.  |
CRM August 2010 William Band |
Navigating the Vendor Landscape A leading analyst firm assesses the CRM marketplace.  |
CRM October 2005 Bailor et al. |
The 2005 CRM Market Leaders, Part 1 The CRM industry's impact -- especially in the small and medium business markets -- is growing more pervasive across industries and within organizations. Here's how the CRM leaders are driving the market and how they stack up against the competition.  |
CRM March 1, 2004 David Myron |
Vertical Focus: Integrators: Necessary Evil or Indispensible Resource? North American companies shelled out $16.8 billion for CRM services last year. Large enterprise customers find professional services firms often add complexity to CRM implementations, but most are likely to use at least one services firm.  |
CRM August 2, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at two executives from Microsoft.  |
CRM September 2003 Guglielmo et al. |
The 2003 Market Leaders (Part 1) Which vendors are leading the industry? CRM magazine scrutinized CRM suite vendors and related categories to uncover the top-five leaders in each category: enterprise CRM, mid-market CRM, analytics, contact center outsourcers, and consulting firms.  |
CRM January 2006 Barton Goldenberg |
CRM: The Past and the Future Born of contact management applications 25 years ago, enterprise software systems have come a long way.  |
CRM February 2, 2004 Martin Schneider |
Merging for Midmarket Dominance Acquisitions increase in popularity as CRM vendors look to capture share in the midmarket.  |
CRM September 2007 |
The 2007 Market Awards: Midmarket Suite CRM The landscape among midmarket suite vendors is loaded with firms vying for increasingly limited technology-budget dollars.  |
CRM June 30, 2010 Lauren McKay |
7 Surf Atop the Forrester Wave of CRM Suites for Large Organizations For large organizations, there are myriad product choices in the CRM suite arena to choose from, 18 of which Bill Band sifts through in his annual "Forrester Wave: CRM Suites for Large Organizations" report.  |
CRM November 19, 2004 |
The Pulse: What Was the Most Critical Factor in Your Choice of CRM Vendor? Here's a chart showing what the deciding factor was in choosing a CRM vendor.  |
CRM October 2013 Barton Goldenberg |
Software Advances Are Propelling CRM to New Heights Seven trends businesses cannot afford to ignore.  |
CRM October 2006 |
The 2006 Market Leaders, Part 1 The need for data quality continues to influence every CRM niche. Some of this year's positional shifts will surprise you, and so will some companies that didn't move as much as they might have hoped. Amdocs... SSA Global Technologies... etc.  |
CRM December 2004 Jason Compton |
It's Not Business As Usual As the CRM industry reinvents itself, 2005 promises both new opportunities and new challenges. Here are seven trends driving the transformation.  |
CRM March 1, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
CRM Strategy Is Taking Center Stage Organizations are increasingly adopting CRM as a business strategy rather than as simply a technology  |
CRM September 1, 2009 |
The 2009 CRM Market Awards: The 2009 Elite The following organizations comprise this year's CRM Elite.  |
CRM November 3, 2003 |
Insuring CRM Success A recent Aberdeen Group study found that CRM investment is on the rise in the insurance industry.  |
CRM May 1, 2003 Martin Schneider |
News in Brief Forty-two percent of the total number of CRM software licenses bought by businesses goes unused, a recent Gartner survey reveals... Lending more credence to the hosted CRM model, Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff announced the company's profitability... etc.  |
CRM October 18, 2004 |
The Pulse: In 2005 we Plan to... A chart summarizing in what direction companies plan to move regarding CRM spending.  |
CRM December 2003 Ginger Conlon |
CRM Success Is Your Responsibility You can't just purchase CRM software, load it up, and expect it to work.  |
CRM August 2010 |
Market Leaders: Midmarket Suite CRM A hefty score in company direction helped Salesforce.com repeat its win here, with much of the buzz from its Chatter and Service Cloud announcements.  |
CRM September 24, 2004 |
Hot Seat: Can a Single Vendor Satisfy an Organization's Complete CRM Needs? Professionals weigh in on this topic: Laura Preslan, research director, AMR Research: "It depends"... Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of research, Nucleus Research: "...a combination of tools that meet clear, specific needs may be a better strategy"... etc.  |
CRM March 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Stand by Me One of the main reasons companies implement CRM is to foster customer loyalty. But as a customer of CRM vendors, how loyal should you be?  |
InternetNews July 11, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Becomes a Service Microsoft has to gives its customer relationship management software an upgrade that will make it viable as a service.  |
CRM July 1, 2004 |
The Pulse: Does Your CEO Use the CRM Tools Your Company Has in Place? Graph shows that 53% of CEOs don't use CRM tools.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Siebel Updates Hosted CRM Software The CRM vendor is tackling the verticals with OnDemand software catering to industry-specific markets.  |
CRM June 2, 2011 Brittany Farb |
SaaS CRM Deployments Fuel Competition Researchers rate Microsoft and Salesforce.com as leaders within the Value Matrix, while Sage and SAP are ones to watch.  |
CRM March 1, 2005 David Myron |
What Is CRM? Defining CRM as merely a technology solution only distorts its purpose and value. It is better to view CRM as a business process.  |
CRM July 1, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
CRM: Alive and Kicking Instead of complaining about the confusion with CRM, we should educate people interested in implementing CRM--the strategy--in their companies.  |
InternetNews December 28, 2010 |
Software Year in Review: Top CRM Stories of 2010 When it comes to the popular topic of CRM, Salesforce Chatter, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and data privacy issues were among the year's most popular articles.  |
InternetNews May 20, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Siebel, Vignette Answer PeopleSoft The enterprise software makers refresh their CRM offerings a day after rival Peoplesoft made its own announcement in the space.  |
InternetNews January 20, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Siebel Takes Telephones Out of the Call Center With the announced purchase of Ineto Services, the CRM On Demand provider gives small businesses the choice between a hosted or in-house service.  |
CRM April 1, 2008 |
The Pulse How Does Your Company Handle its CRM Solution?  |
CRM October 1, 2005 David Myron |
Back to Double-Digit Growth There will likely come a time when not one, but all CRM application vendors in the large enterprise category offer a hosted solution.  |
CRM January 1, 2008 Joshua Weinberger |
CRM Market Set to Double Recent studies predict the global CRM market will double within six years, and suggest explosive growth in CRM adoption across every segment - especially on-demand CRM.  |
CRM November 6, 2012 Leonard Klie |
Social Adds to CRM's Appeal Nucleus Research's Value Matrix highlights new functionality and integration capabilities.  |