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Mother knows best
Everyone, it is said, has a momma. Today, Kintera Inc. announced that one of the largest legions of mothers has taken on their CRM. La Leche League International, an international breastfeeding information and support group, has selected Kintera’s social constituent relationship management system for its core member and donor management needs. ooTao Inc., an identity […]
How difficult is implementation? Survey says…
Representatives of PMP Research have announced the release of a report entitled “Time to Talk” and commissioned by the Evaluation Centre detailing issues enterprises are facing in linking key operational systems. Some key numbers from the study show that: • 40 percent of enterprises report difficulties in integrating their legacy systems with newer applications such […]
Open up for 2.0
OpenMFG, provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced the release of version 2.0 of its Enterprise Resource Planning software. Enhancements include multi-currency capabilities, a new Customer Relationship Management module, and new functionality in the manufacturing and scheduling module. OpenMFG’s flagship product is an ERP software solution built with open […]
8.12, Pervasively yours
Pervasive Software Inc. (a decent name), a provider of embeddable data management and integration software, today announced the release of Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Business Integrator version 8.12. Features touted in release 8.12 include the “Easy Loader” function, billed as “a simple mapping GUI that ISVs can distribute to their end users for wizard-driven […]
Data in the Sand
Sand Technology, Inc., a provider of intelligent enterprise information management solutions, today announced that an unnamed “large Asian telecommunications provider” has purchased Sand/DNA for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence as a nearline solution to manage data in its SAP business information warehouse environment. The Sand/DNA solution, officially certified by SAP as an integrated ABAP add-on with […]
Cisco in twenty languages
Whilst thanking Microsoft for the support, representatives of Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that the Cisco Unified CRM Connector 3.0 is now available in twenty languages: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Now, careful counters will not that that’s only eighteen […]
Questions from Dublin
Dublin-based firm Research and Markets has released a report scintillatingly entitled “Corporate Software Purchasing Trends.” The report presents the findings of the Change Wave Alliance survey on corporate spending for software and IT security, including a look at the impending impact of the Microsoft Vista operating system. The survey was conducted in October 2006 and […]
Destination CRM pokes head out window
What do an Australian spammer, a Coca-Cola factory in Afghanistan and a British legal battle between hedgehogs (or porcupines, to us Yanks) and McDonalds have in common? They’re all news bites in a slightly odd piece over at Destination CRM today. Marshall Lager’s piece “CRM Around the World Take Two” is a funny bit of […]
O, those CRM woes in the U.K.
InsightExec.com has a piece up today reporting on the status of the massive CRM integration going on within the UK based on government directives. In a piece entitled, “Local councils continue to battle with CRM integration,” Declan Grogan takes a look at the way the process is going for some local authorities. A measure called […]
HIM happy with Satuit
Satuit Technologies, Inc. has announced that asset managers Harris Investment Management, Inc. (or HIM, an acronym that wreaks havoc with grammar to hilarious effect) has selected Satuit as its customer relationship management provider. HIM representatives stated that HIM sought CRM that provided “more efficiency, better management and stronger analytics from the marketing, sales and client […]