Now this may be a bit heavy on the hype, but CRMchump can’t remember the last time someone was just so flat-out cheerleader-level excited about the biz. The PR folks at Velocity Academy LLC are thrilled (!) to announce CRM Mania Month in January 2007 for “professionals and companies using, supporting, managing or selling Customer […]
Skura Corporation, software provider for closed-loop marketing purposes in the life sciences industry, has announced that Blue Diesel, an inVentiv Health company and a leading interactive healthcare agency, will be deploying SFX Viewer. SFX Viewer runs on Tablet PC technology; with the software, Blue Diesel seeks to create multimedia presentations “designed to turn a traditional […]
Initiate Systems Inc., provider of data management solutions, has announced that its advancement in Forrester’s quarter four vendor summary of the market. Previously listed as a “strong performer” in the third-quarter report, Initiate is now called a “Leader” in the “Forrester Wave: Customer Data Integration Vendor Summary, Q4 2006” report. Report authors touted Initiate Systems […]
Customer Relationship Management vendor SuperOffice Software Ltd today announced its strategic partnership with business process management specialist Orbis Software. The deal promises to give SuperOffice customers direct access to a specially designed and priced version of Orbis’ TaskCentre suite. Strategically speaking, this partnership announcement marks Orbis Software’s recent entrance in the US marketplace. Orbis Software […]
Newmerix, a provider of integrated lifecycle and compliance management solutions for the metadata architectures of enterprise applications, today announced its securing of $7 million in additional financing. Existing capital partners Mobius Venture Capital, Siemens Venture Capital and IDG Ventures Pacific participated in the round. "Newmerix grew substantially in 2006—more than doubling new customers, expanding product […]
CDC Software today announced the appointment of Heath Williams as Ross Enterprise Solutions vice president of sales for the “EMEA region” — Europe, Middle East and Africa. Williams brings more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry. His career began as an entrepreneur, later selling his small firm to Aston Group, where he […]
Insurance direct marketing firm Global Contact Services has announced plans to open a call center in Lancaster, Ohio. According to the Lancaster Economic Development Office, the call center will employ 220 full-time. Global Contact Services currently employs more than 1,500 employees in America. Among GCS clientele are Bank of America, Wachovia, AIG, Verizon, Wells Fargo […]
Teradata and client company Overstock.com have taken the 2006 platinum award for overall excellence from the National Center for Database Marketing. Teradata and Overstock.com also bagged a gold award for technology applications from the NCDM. The awards honor organizations that “have demonstrated ingenuity and creativity in leveraging their marketing databases,” and are presented annually by […]
The folks from Gartner are at it again, examining the short-term future of the CRM market. Things aren’t so bright in this corner of the crystal ball, however, and the advisory firm predicts that some 25 percent of CRM projects will be postponed or cancelled through 2008. Gartner analysts chalk up the high rate of […]
Congratulations are due the Technology Marketing Corporation’s website TMCnet.com today, as the website itself ran news of surpassing a mark of 1,000,000 unique visitors in a month for the second time in 2006. Some 1,021,559 unique visitors stopped by for a read in November 2006, according to web analytics and marketing performance management solutions WebTrends. […]