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CRM Evaluation Center

Nov 23, 2009
Today's usage of Decision Support Systems (DSS), combined with vetted CRM knowledge bases, allows organizations to save time and money, achieving better and more reliable/fully-documented decisions, a quantum improvement over the widely-used subjective process of selecting complex enterprise software...
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CRM: The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth(For A Change) (7 Pages)
by Dick Lee/Caribou Lake
Feb 15, 2003 Abstract : Finding out the true facts about what makes CRM tick and how fast it circles the ROI clock—if it indeed reaches ROI-has long frustrated potential CRM implementers looking for answers. And getting good answers really matters, because their only alternative to being forewarned may be leaping into enterprise-wide, mega-bucks, change management-laden CRM implementations—and testing the depth of the water with both feet. For the first time, there are statistically-based, substantive answers to many questions about CRM.
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Scala and Microsoft Become (Not So) Strange CRM Bedfellows Part Two: Market Impact Continued (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Aug 29, 2003 Abstract : Microsoft's foray into the CRM arena has not been a bed of roses, despite its indisputably large marketing muscle and R&D investment, its strong channel, traditionally attractive pricing policies, and the aura and experience within the market segment. Microsoft CRM remains both a threat and an opportunity for the most nimble mid-market CRM vendors. Microsoft’s entry with CRM evangelism through an array of seminars nationwide has bolstered the market’s awareness of the need for CRM applications.
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Applying the Power of Social Networks to Customer Relationship Management (3 Pages)
by Wayne Thompson
Sep 19, 2007 Abstract : Customer relationship management (CRM) is rapidly morphing from a customer management model to one of customer engagement. Social networks, podcasts, blogs, and wikis are enabling customers to become advocates, and not simply the targets they were in the traditional CRM process. The same techniques are also being used within the CRM industry itself to create a content-rich, social media environment for CRM professionals. Find out what these sweeping changes mean to businesses and CRM professionals alike, as TEC's director of research Wayne Thompson sits down with Paul Greenberg and Bruce Culbert of BPT Partners, a leading CRM consulting firm.
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Why CRM Is So Hard and What To Do About It: Data is key to making CRM work (3 Pages)
by Barry Briggs
Dec 25, 2002 Abstract : Making a CRM investment work is a two-step process that begins with unifying disparate systems by creating and managing standardized, reusable business definitions mapped to the different CRM system schemas throughout the organization.
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Why CRM Is So Hard and What To Do About It: Data is key to making CRM work (3 Pages)
by Barry Briggs
Apr 30, 2002 Abstract : Making a CRM investment work is a two-step process that begins with unifying disparate systems by creating and managing standardized, reusable business definitions mapped to the different CRM system schemas throughout the organization.
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CRM is Busting Out Of Its Britches: Operational, Analytical, and Collaborative CRM Are Born (3 Pages)
by Randy Garland
Aug 27, 2001 Abstract : Back in the early 90’s, ‘CRM’ wasn’t even a trendy acronym. You had a few players thinking beyond 'stovepipe' enterprise applications, but not much beyond. Fast forward to 2001. CRM has gotten fat, and the fatter it gets, it becomes more difficult to understand, more expensive to buy, more difficult to implement, and less likely to satisfy - either buyers of the software or their customers. Keep your eye on the ball: your customers, and your business.
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CRM, Success, and Best Practices: A Wake Up Call Part One: Searching and Establishing the Business Parameters of CRM (7 Pages)
by Glen S. Petersen
Oct 21, 2004 Abstract : Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the management strategy used to implement it. Moreover, murky definitions and objectives have caused varying degrees of success and failure to emerge from the same initiative. Clearly defining the objective, implementing holistic best practices, and ensuring that senior management understands CRM as a business strategy can help maximize a CRM investment.
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Will A Big Fish's Splash Cause Minnows' Flush Out Of The CRM Pond? (5 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Mar 10, 2003 Abstract : While Microsoft’s zeal to deliver a market-ready CRM product may speak to the CRM market’s attractiveness, Applix’ exit may, on the other hand, indicate that the niche CRM vendors without a clear differentiating value proposition have not much to look for there in the long run.
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The Lexicon of CRM - Part 3: From R to Z (4 Pages)
by Randy Garland
Nov 2, 2001 Abstract : CRM. C.R.M. itself is an acronym, standing for Customer Relationship Management. This is part three of a three-part article to provide explanation and meaning for most of the common CRM phraseology. Here, in alphabetical order, we continue the Lexicon of CRM
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