A lot of businesses have some form of telephone-based sales and marketing function, and most will make use of CRM technology to support their activities. In this post I wanted to highlight a number of ways that companies can potentially use their CRM systems, beyond the basics of logging conversations Continue Reading
Last quarter’s CRM software news in 60 seconds…
In case you missed them, here’s my 60 second bullet point round-up of the main CRM software stories last quarter: December Oracle announces it will buy Responsys for $1.5 billion to fill out Oracle Marketing Cloud January Microsoft acquires Parature for $100 million to extend its Dynamics CRM customer service Continue Reading
The hidden dangers of replacing vertical CRM software with generic offerings
One of the big shifts we’ve seen in the CRM market in recent years is the progress that generic CRM software such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, or SugarCRM has made in markets that were once dominated by vertical specific CRM solutions. As I touched on in my last post, generic Continue Reading