| Pure-Play CRM Vendors: Choose an Integrated or Best-of-Breed Solution? Randy Garland - September 5, 2001 Introduction There are a LOT of CRM vendors. If you count the pure-play Integrated CRM vendors and niche, or, fill-the-cracks vendors, there at least fifty from which to choose. Should you go with a one-source solution, reducing the need for integration with other corporate data sources, or go with a best-of-breed approach, getting the best in each category but being left with standalone applications that must be integrated? Every vendor, of course, has their own opinion. And, of course, we have ours... |