Onyx Software: CRM Vendor Battling For Viability
L. Talarico - December 4, 2000

Vendor Genesis

Onyx Software Corp. (NASDAQ: ONXS) is one of the larger CRM vendors focusing on such operational CRM (Customer Relationship Management) functions as sales force automation and call center management. Onyx was founded in 1994 by three Microsoft employees who had developed front office software used internally at Microsoft. The founders saw a demand for packaged software that could consolidate customer data from disparate systems into one data repository. Their original product, Onyx Customer Center, was a client-server application that collected customer data from various internal data stores and loaded a single data repository. This product forms the core function of the Onyx 2000 suite. The suite has four components:..