Do you know a WizKid?

(The sound of The Chump hammering this message to the virtual space that is CRMchump.org…)

ATTENTION:

Beagle Research is accepting nominations for its 2007 CRM WizKids Awards, an awards program recognizing CRM users and their vendors. Qualifications for nomination include “front office software vendors offering applications and solutions that extend the reach of CRM, including those not currently considered as within the mainstream of CRM. Solutions should involve business processes that directly touch the customer.”

Deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (geez, they’re serious about this) on November 30.

Beagle Research Group analysts and executives will evaluate the entries and score them according to standard metrics. The top rated solutions vendors will be contacted and asked for permission to interview their referenced customers. Beagle Research analysts will interview the customers and write case studies that will reflect their findings. The case studies will be collected into a Beagle Research Group report to be published in the first quarter of 2007.

Previous WizKids winners include Communispace and Charles Schwab; BlueRoads and Avaya; Rearden Commerce and Borland Software; Knowlagent and Coca-Cola; Five9 and XACTtelesolutions; ShareMethods and JMJ Associates; RightNow and NCsoft; Eloqua and Endeca Technologies; and Salesforce.com and BackBone Software.

To nominate, click here. Beagle Research Group is an advisory firm founded by Denis Prombriant, once named one of the most influential people in CRM by CRM magazine. The mission statement of Beagle reads, “We like to identify emerging companies that promise to change the way enterprise computing will be done and help them get the attention the deserve.”

Beagle Research Group is named for the HMS Beagle, “the ship that carried Charles Darwin around the world on a research mission that lead to the theory of biological evolution.” Nice.