With the holidays officially behind us, I thought it would be a good time to express how this season is uniquely suited to teach us about the value of CRM in the Cloud. What do these two things have to do with each other? There is a real correlation between strategies and tactics we use […]
To make a long story short, SaaS CRM is enterprise CRM software delivered through a monthly or yearly paid subscription. SaaS CRM gained popularity because it provided companies of all sizes with the software that they needed to become successful at only the fraction of the cost of of out-of-the-box software. Does SaaS CRM save […]
Recently, the judges from CRM Idol 2011 named 3 finalists from EMEA. CRM Idol 2011 is a recent contest held by Paul Greenberg, and has quickly become one of the largest CRM events, engaging more than 50 opinion leaders, Journalists, bloggers and consultants. The multi-stage competition began with 40 companies from the Americas and 20 […]
amoCRM is a brand new CRM system designed for small to medium sized businesses. But what makes this new system so exciting and effective isn’t its price, which is a bargain, but instead are its features. amoCRM hit the market knowing that there are hundreds and hundreds of other CRM systems out […]
If you missed yesterday’s blog, I addressed the question of “What’s the best CRM solution?” in the context of a classic WWF Royal Rumble match. If you missed it, for some context and to try and understand why I provided the above video, read Part 1 of the CRM Royal Rumble, where I matched up […]
Everyday, we get a ton of questions about what’s better, SAP or Salesforce.com? Microsoft Dynamics or Oracle? How does Sugar CRM fit into the whole mix? Though the questions are common, the answer is not always so easy to provide. So I thought a blog pitting the major CRM solutions against each other might […]
The market is full of information on your current and potential customers, your competition, consumer trends and so much more. Are you leveraging this key data and making it work for your company? Did you know you are in the perfect position to leverage information on your customers so you can improve sales, retain more […]
Oracle Corp has obtained clearance from the European Commission regarding its $ 5.85 billion purchase of Siebel Systems Inc. The Commission has stated that the acquisition will not have the deletrious effect of hurting healthy competition. Oracle’s acquisition of Siebel is partly to overtake SAP in the field of business applications software. According to the […]
SAP has rebutted a claim by Oracle that the latter is now the foremost CRM applications provider in America. SAP buttressed its claim by mentioning a recent report by Merril Lynch according to which SAP earned $ 968 million from tle sale of application licenses in the US for the year 2005, Oracle’s earnings for […]
Dynamics CRM 3.0 released by Microsoft is a CRM software package that introduces new marketing-management and service-scheduling features. The software is easy to customize and integrate. The software has initially been released as a stand alone offering. However, it will be available as a hosted service from January 2006.