Tag: "crm"

Another One On CRM’s Comeback

CRM is supposedly on a comeback trail with a vengeance, hot on the heels of the last post I made regarding CRM’s comeback, here’s another one. This time it is from the UK and it says that faced with recession, companies are caught between trying to conserve finances and trying to get the best out […]

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CRM – making its umpteenth comeback

An article on the website Customer Strategy titled CRM: The comeback kid has an element of humor for me. I mean it’s becoming so regularly monotonous to hear that CRM is going strong/will make a comeback inspite of so many deployment failures. I guess if there is one technology that is making its vendors and […]

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Gartner Guidelines For CRM Success

Gartner has issued some sage advice for CIOs who wish to target, attract, and retain new customers. It is the outcome of a worldwide survey of 1,500 CIOs by Gartner. The research firm has outlined seven initiatives that organizations should focus on to build customer loyalty and satisfaction.  The suggestions stress those aspects that are […]

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Oracle Gains Ground In Asia Pacific

Oracle has stated that the growth prospects for its CRM and on-demand CRM solutions are looking good in the Asia Pacific region. The company’s partner base in the Asia Pacific, consisting of Siebel CRM On Demand resellers and implementation experts, has increased to more than 48 in the short span of 12 months. A little […]

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CRM And Call-Center Telephony

An interesting interview of David Peterson — CEO of PowerHouse Consulting at VoIP-News throws light on the process of integrating CRM with call-center telephony. David talks about the issues that crop up when integrating a CRM solution with a call-center. These include selecting the right intermediary server for converting the proprietary language of the telephony […]

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CRM Gets Social

CRM is becoming an increasingly collaborative phenomenon in which businesses are being forced to take increased cognizance of their customer’s wishes. This turnaround has been orchestrated to a large extent by the Internet which has enabled customers to have a say in the designing and developing of services and products. Customers are even choosing the […]

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Yet Another Research on CRM

A new report, this time from Forrester Research, has found that companies that companies that have implemented CRM need to do a rethink on their strategy processes if they are to realize more benefits from the solution implemented. Factors necessitating a change in strategy include the growth of SaaS and a consolidation of vendors. Basically, […]

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Aligning CRM Objectives With Manufacturing Agenda

This is an aspect of CRM that is indeed worth a thought by industry worthies – how to align CRM and manufacturing. CRM focuses on the customers and aims to make the entire process customer-centric whereas most manufacturers belong to the school of thought that extols lean manufacturing where emphasis is placed on productivity and […]

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Customer Data Used For Application Testing

 An interesting study conducted by the Ponemon Institute has thrown up some interesting facts regarding the (mis)use of customer data. Sixty two percent of the companies that were questioned by Ponemon stated that they used real and sensitive customer data while testing and developing applications. Given the fact that the data includes employee, vendor and […]

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Integration of SaaS CRM to your Enterprise Processes

Apparently the jury is still out on the merits of SaaS as a vehicle of distributing software. In an excellent piece Galen Grumen considers actual industry examples where SaaS deployments met with varying degree of success with respect to their integration with core company apps. One aspect that hinders SaaS integration is that SaaS providers […]

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