Wednesday's salesforce.com IPO offered a rare opportunity for smaller CRM companies to elbow their way into the media spotlight. Many of these competitors claimed that they were taking customers away from the now-public company's customer entourage. Although a salesforce.com spokesperson said that the company couldn't provide a comment to CRM Buyer, Yankee Group analyst Sheryl Kingstone told CRM Buyer: "Th...
About three weeks ago, Oracle issued a security alert describing multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in its E-Business Suite 11i and Applications 11.0. The alert carried the company's highest severity rating, which it associates with a flaw that is "high risk and requires little specialized knowl...
As more consumers and businesses turn to the Internet not just for information, but as a way to run their daily errands, the need for more sophisticated customer service grows unabated. The old one-two punch of call-center representatives and an online Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page does not ...
It's an age-old slogan for companies: "We value your business." Thanks to customer relationship management (CRM) systems, many enterprises now can place a highly specific value on the worth of each customer's business. Like it or not, CRM systems allow companies to identify customer segments, or "ti...
CRM software revenues are expected to reach $30 billion in the next several years, according to research firm Cahners In-Stat. Even so, CRM implementation projects are often cited for high failure rates. To avoid losing customers, these projects need to succeed in more dimensions than just company m...
In creating a supply chain that serves a company's specific needs, it may seem as if hundreds of details must be examined to formulate an effective strategy. But in looking at nuances like transportation costs or the price of warehousing software, companies may be missing the big picture. There is n...
As part of cost-cutting measures, more companies are offshoring their tech-support divisions. Customers of companies like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, AOL and Dell regularly route their calls to overseas help desks, often located in India. Although training is available for these offshore personnel, ...
No matter how impressively a CRM or ERP application performs within a company, if it flunks with customers, it can become a staggeringly expensive piece of shelfware. To avoid this outcome, companies increasingly are purchasing software or services that monitor end-user interactions with application...
As e-commerce companies hammer out ways to fulfill customer orders with greater speed and accuracy, more and more of them are offering same-day shipping. For a small e-tailer that processes only a few orders per day, taking this step is usually not difficult. But at a large company that receives sc...
In late 2002, Microsoft rolled out the first version of its CRM software. In the intervening year, the company reports, more than 1,000 companies have purchased the product and praised its ease of use and painless integration. Not all companies are so enthusiastic, however. Some report software glit...
A CIO or IT manager who is trying to decide which CRM path his or her company should take faces an extremely tough decision. In the first installment of this two-part article, analysts and CRM vendors weighed in on whether a company should purchase an in-house CRM system or outsource the project by ...
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