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Last year’s deregulation of the financial services industry changed the competitive pressures on banks, brokerages, and insurance
companies. Firms in this industry have been forced to expand and reorganize their offerings around the customer rather than
around products. This makes a perfect case for (...)
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Last year’s deregulation of the financial services industry changed the competitive pressures on banks, brokerages, and insurance
companies. Firm...
Published:
2000-11-02
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When selecting a CRM vendor 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? This article compares the (...)
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When selecting a CRM vendor should you go with a one-source solution, reducing the need for integration with other corporate
data sources, or go w...
Published:
2001-09-05
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Choosing the right customer resource management (CRM) application involves looking at its ability to solve many business
challenges—both expected and unexpected. Analyzing CRM applications for their problem-solving acumen can help your business
successfully select a platform that improves the way you d (...)
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7 Questions Most CRM Vendors Are Afraid You’ll Ask: Success Secrets for Managing Customer
Management Software. Source: Consona. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
When selecting a CRM vendor 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? This article compares the (...)
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When selecting a CRM vendor should you go with a one-source solution, reducing the need for integration with other corporate
data sources, or go w...
Published:
2001-09-05
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Vendors must make fundamental changes to sales and support processes to accommodate on-demand, transaction-based pricing.
Software vendors must rethink the kinds of functions they provide, how best to deliver those capabilities, and what approaches
to take through the channel. (...)
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Vendors must make fundamental changes to sales and support processes to accommodate on-demand, transaction-based pricing.
Software vendors must re...
Published:
2005-04-01
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As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded mid-market-large
enterprise vendors tend to step on mid-market vendor's toes. The real concern is to determine whether the mid-market cultural
and functional differences are well understood and (...)
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As the market shifts from sophisticated enterprise CRM implementations to the more competitive and overcrowded
mid-market-large enterprise vendors...
Published:
2003-06-26
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Microsoft’s ambition will be its greatest challenge, as the company is concurrently experiencing an almost disruptive technology
transition from Windows to .NET, using Internet rather than PCs. Microsoft Business Solutions is now up to its gills with
soul-searching dilemmas, possibly with more issues t (...)
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Microsoft’s ambition will be its greatest challenge, as the company is concurrently experiencing an almost disruptive technology
transition from W...
Published:
2002-08-16
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Application vendors find themselves in a precarious situation where, concurrently with dismal revenue inflow, there is a
need for bigger investment in the development of their products. Vendors unable to keep abreast of technology demands of a
vertically focused solution that provides tangible returns in (...)
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Application vendors find themselves in a precarious situation where, concurrently with dismal revenue inflow, there is a need
for bigger investmen...
Published:
2002-08-29
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Why has it been so difficult for CRM point solution providers to even find a white knight, which has not generally been the
case with even ancient ERP products? Could it be that while the traditional introspective mind-set of ERP becomes history,
its functionality remains critical and CRM is being absorb (...)
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Why has it been so difficult for CRM point solution providers to even find a white knight, which has not generally been the
case with even ancient...
Published:
2003-03-28
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The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are
seeking a more specialized and industry specific tool. From the larger organization to the smallest customers, CRM buyers
are expecting their applications to follow their business mode (...)
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The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are seeking
a more specialize...
Published:
2003-05-28
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Will the long awaited Siebel 7 product release help the until recently undisputed CRM leader withstand the pressure from
ERP giants – SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft? (...)
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Will the long awaited Siebel 7 product release help the until recently undisputed CRM leader withstand the pressure from ERP
giants – SAP, Oracle ...
Published:
2001-12-28
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The new metrics of customer profitability, lifetime value, and wallet share are needed to supplement the traditional metrics
of market share and penetration. Typical functional components of marketing automation include customer data cleansing and
analysis tools, and campaign management systems. (...)
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The new metrics of customer profitability, lifetime value, and wallet share are needed to supplement the traditional metrics
of market share and p...
Published:
2005-08-16
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Today's enterprise applications are required as a matter of course to address more than the processes taking place within
the walls of an enterprise. Almost all traditional ERP vendors (small and big alike) had to experience a wake-up call and
have long been trying to expand their product offering in tu (...)
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Today's enterprise applications are required as a matter of course to address more than the processes taking place within
the walls of an enterpri...
Published:
2004-01-31
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Siebel and Great Plains recently announced plans to expand their partnership allowing Great Plains' VARs to sell Siebel's
eBusiness Applications. This agreement will allow Great Plains partners to sell a wide range of enterprise applications to
upper-midmarket organizations (...)
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Siebel and Great Plains recently announced plans to expand their partnership allowing Great Plains' VARs to sell Siebel's
eBusiness Applications. ...
Published:
2000-10-03
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Onyx Software is one of the few direct competitors of Siebel Systems with a solid chance at long-term success in the CRM
market. A strong customer focus and a commitment to a 100% web-based architecture are just two of its critical success factors.
Find out how Onyx is staking its claim. (...)
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Onyx Software is one of the few direct competitors of Siebel Systems with a solid chance at long-term success in the CRM market.
A strong custome...
Published:
2000-12-04
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Lipstream, the company that provides voice enabled chat to Excite, also supplies Voice over IP software to eCRM vendors.
Kana is the most recently announced CRM customer. Kana has voice enabled their RealTime offering to provide ecommerce sites
a way to talk to their customers. (...)
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Lipstream, the company that provides voice enabled chat to Excite, also supplies Voice over IP software to eCRM vendors. Kana
is the most recentl...
Published:
2000-09-06
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Abstract:
Broadbase continues its string of alliances and acquisitions by purchasing Servicesoft. The $645M purchase is a response
to the increasing demand for single vendor solutions for operational and analytical CRM applications. This news comes less
than four months after E.piphany bought Octane Software to (...)
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Broadbase continues its string of alliances and acquisitions by purchasing Servicesoft. The $645M purchase is a response to
the increasing demand...
Published:
2000-10-05
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Abstract:
Siebel is making a big push into the mid-market with the introduction of eBusiness 2000 MidMarket Edition. This product
promises mid-size businesses a more affordable, scaled down version of Siebel’s top tier application suite. (...)
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Siebel is making a big push into the mid-market with the introduction of eBusiness 2000 MidMarket Edition. This product promises
mid-size busines...
Published:
2000-08-21
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Abstract:
Microsoft’s ambition will be its greatest challenge, as the company is concurrently experiencing an almost disruptive technology
transition from Windows to .NET, using Internet rather than PCs. Microsoft Business Solutions is now up to its gills with
soul-searching dilemmas, possibly with more issues t (...)
Excerpt related to
crm vendors:
Microsoft’s ambition will be its greatest challenge, as the company is concurrently experiencing an almost disruptive technology
transition from W...
Published:
2002-08-16
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Abstract:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are
seeking a more specialized and industry specific tool. From the larger organization to the smallest customers, CRM buyers
are expecting their applications to follow their business mode (...)
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crm vendors:
The CRM market is shifting. Instead of looking for an all-purpose and horizontal oriented CRM application, customers are seeking
a more specialize...
Published:
2003-05-28