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Liquid Kintera
Representatives of Kintera Inc. today announced the firm is incorporating LiquidScore (now that sounds like some serious stuff there) into Kintera Sphere CRM as an included service for all users. Kintera’s social CRM platform Kintera Sphere CRM, promises to “provide a novel wealth score based on supporters’ liquid financial assets.” The score (and the ‘Score) […]
Jum Jum!
Jum Jum! Jumsoft has announced the release of its customer relationship management application for small businesses, Relationship Version 1.0. (If you ask CRMchump, that sounds like a robot-in-love film.) Relationship helps users organize and manage their contact information, titles, campaigns, and resources.The interface allows users to create groups for company contacts, customers, friends, business partners […]
SAP’s new numbers and strategy
With its annual conference to report full-year fiscal results, SAP AG unveiled its “new game changing approach to the mid-market.” First and foremost has SAP developing a hosted suite of business applications for the midmarket, in hopes of “attract[ing] an untapped segment of customers with the promise of faster implementation and lower ownership costs.” Seeking […]
How to use a Compass
Independent software vendor Compass Technology has launched a channel partner program to distribute its end-to-end fundraising software suite for nonprofits. This suite comprises Compass CRM for Fundraisers; Compass Analytics for Fundraisers; and Compass Personalized Marketing for Fundraisers. Compass is specifically recruiting current Microsoft partners. Compass channel partner program manager Susan Turner, formerly of Sage Software’s […]
Next comes “Jumps for Chumps”
iCentera, a provider of on-demand CRM portals for sales, partner and customer communications, today announced the release of iCentera 4.1. iCentera’s amazingly named “Portals for Mortals” seek to enable the creation of customized and branded portals for any internal or external audience “in minutes.” Customization of iCentera portals with a variety of internet applications such […]
Ascendix ascending at Microsoft
Ascendix Technologies today announced the certification of its Real Estate Advantage software for “Microsoft Dynamics CRM V3.0 Test for ISV Solutions.” The certification milestone was administered by VeriTest. The program identifies applications that successfully integrate with Microsoft Dynamics CRM V3.0. The testing and verification program ensures that applications integrate with CRM V3.0 in a supported […]
The stock exchange and the AppExchange
Dow Jones today announced details of plans to enhance Factiva SalesWorks for salesforce.com’s AppExchange in order to use features now available in Salesforce Winter ‘07. The updated version of Factiva SalesWorks for AppExchange will be available in March 2007 on the AppExchange. Factiva SalesWorks enhancements for salesforce.com’s AppExchange allow users to generate lists of company […]
Finally, an Oracle acquisition!
Perhaps its first in 2007, Oracle announced a “strengthening of position in the embedded database market” with the acquisition of open-source database vendor Sleepycat Software. Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB is part of open-source products including the Linux operating system, the BSD Unix OS, Apache Web server, OpenLDAP directory and the OpenOffice productivity suite. With the addition […]
It’s Oracle for Kimpton
It wouldn’t be Monday without Oracle news… The Big Company today announced that Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, the leading chain of boutique hotels and chef-driven restaurants throughout North America, has selected Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Kimpton currently operates 43 hotels and 44 restaurants, and will rely on Oracle product to manage growth, consolidate business processes […]
Amdocs in Indonesia
Amdocs today announced the signing of a five-year contract with Indonesian mobile communications service provider PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk for the modernization of its real-time business support systems. Under terms of the contract, Amdocs will also act as systems integrator for the deployment of Amdocs Billing 7, Amdocs CRM 7 and Amdocs Partner Manager 7 […]