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Up Norway way
ePages Software GmbH, a provider of online shop software, announced its conquering of Norway. Norway-based e-business software and consulting firm BITS has been named exclusive distributor of ePages solutions to the SAP Business One market in good old Norge. Seriously, this deal looks to corner a huge slice of the market there. ePages has chosen […]
Maximer goes to war with Sage
In what at least one press release is calling a “war,” CRM solutions provider Maximizer has announced a “number of product enhancements and special offers,” company officials say, aimed at “providing small businesses with a superior alternative to Sage Software’s popular contact management product ACT! 2007.” Flagship product Maximizer 9 now includes MaxMobile for the […]
More on the Vista release date(s)
A slight addendum to an earlier entry here at CRMChump. The “long-awaited” Microsoft Windows Vista operating system will actually be available on November 30 to larger business clients at an event at the Nasdaq Stock Market on that day (the first step in the accompanying media blitz). Those buying Windows licenses in bulk will get […]
Thirteen hundred TalkTalkin’ NetSuite
NetSuite, Inc., the leader in on-demand business software suites, has announced that TalkTalk Direct, communications and free broadband provider owned by The Carphone Warehouse Group, has deployed NetSuite CRM+. TalkTalk has licensed more than 1,300 seats. TalkTalk is reporting that the move has resulted in “exponential growth in TalkTalk’s customer base and call centre traffic.” […]
Putting the CRM in sCRuM
Representatives of the Castleford Tigers rugby league club have announced the installation of a customer relationship management and ticketing system to tailor special offers to fans. Despite an eleventh-place finish in the twelve-team division in 2006, the West Yorkshire club has definite plans to improve their lot in life soon. In addition to the CRM […]
CRM Bloing all over England
The East of England Development Agency (a.k.a. Eeda) announced their adoption of a £1.8 million (approximately US $3.44 million) customer relationship management system to tie together its Business Link Organisations (a.k.a. “Blo”). The agency will employ the CRM system in “holding information for all of the Blo’s allowing information to be shared across the region.” […]
Sages speak
Enterprise software company Sage Software released Sage MAS 90 and Sage MAS 200 ACT! Link this week, a solution designed to assist small- and mid-sized businesses in more tightly integrating front and back office operations by linking Sage’s enterprise resource planning programs with the ACT! contact and customer management system. Sage MAS 90 and Sage […]
Just say Noe to seminars
Once your firm is sold on the CRM philosophy, how can it get the maximum results out of the product you deploy? A new duo may be able to help. “In an effort to bring CRM solutions to businesses that desire improvement with their customer relationships,” runs the weekend announcement, “Steve Noe, CEO of Biz […]
Don’t feed the Vtigers
Last week saw the release of open source CRM provider Vtiger’s CRM 5.0. The Vtiger business model is designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. Vtiger has reportedly been downloaded almost 500,000, and is built over LAMP/WAMP stack and other third-party open source packages. Vtiger CRM software can be installed in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and Unix/Linux-based distributions […]
iRM CRM for ISU
Representatives of Intelliworks Inc., a CRM provider for the higher education sphere, announced that the College of Business at Iowa State University has selected Intelliworks CRM software for their MBA program. Established in 1984, the Iowa State College of Business has a fall 2006 enrollment of 3399 students. In the first phase of the CRM […]