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Transforming CRM: 10 Tactics for Improving Revenue and ROI Now

Until people have intelligent marketing automation with actionable triggers to qualify leads and detect movement towards a buying decision, the CRM system is a very fancy database. In today's fast-paced marketplace where buyers are now more in control than ever, communications must support the buying process to improve top- and...

Tags: Revenue, CRM System, ROI, CRM, Engagement Systems, Marketing Automation Solution, Marketing Research, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

White papers 2009-02-10

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Interview with Microsoft’s Seth Patton

More from the Project Conference Seth Patton is the senior marketing director for Microsoft Project. I got thirty minutes alone with Seth at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 show this afternoon. We discussed several topics impacting the PSA professional services automation and PPM...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., PPM, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-16

CRMWeb 2.5 (Windows)

CRMWeb is a flexible, efficient and easy to use CRM software solution for small and medium-sized companies. CRM Web is integrating all success relevant departments of your business: sales, marketing and customer service. Flexibility, integration, adaptability, performance and reduced total costs are the key features of our web-based CRM software...

Tags: Customer Service, Customer, Microsoft Windows, CRM, Misoft Systems, CRMWeb, CRM Web, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-11

How to Choose the Best CRM Implementation Partner for Your Call Center

In the era of multi-channel communications, the Service Management and Customer Support features used in Call Centers, along with Sales Force Automation SFA, are among the most common functionalities of Customer Relationship Management CRM solution. The growing number of call centers on numerous market verticals proves that call centers have...

Tags: Call-center, CRM, OSF Global Services, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, It Operations, Software

White papers 2009-07-17

Severa â€" PSA/PPM discussion with Zaki Usman

The battle for low-cost, SaaS-based PSA/PPM is heating up Severa, a PSA/PPM (professional services automation/project portfolio management) vendor, has recently launched their newest product line: Severa 3. This is a Web 2.0, SaaS software as a service solution targeted for many professional services firms. The...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Professional Services, QuickArrow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Groupe Meeschaert Improves Customer Lifecycle Management and Marketing Effectiveness

Groupe Meeschaer wanted to implement a Customer Relationship Management CRM solution within an adaptive information system architecture and meet International Organization for Standardization parameters, including sales and campaign management. The challenge was to consolidate all company services through a single CRM solution, including market index tables trading business market, back-office...

Tags: Marketing, Oracle Corp., Lifecycle Management, Back-office, Groupe Meeschaert, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?

Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?what is CRM?After reading first two sentences i give up on articleRE: Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?Great post. I really think it doesn't matter whether one vendor is able to provide the complete "CRM 2.0 solution". Similar to closed-loop marketing, the productivity comes,...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

Everybody loves virtualization

Everybody loves virtualizationOne of my pet peevesVirtualization is useful for testing and development environments. It makes no sense whatsoever for production environments.UNIX has a very nice scheduler that is built to handle hundreds/thousands of processes at a time. It automatically doles out CPU and memory and I/O resources. It has...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, UNIX, virtualization, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

CRM & the Mac is Oranges to, Uh, Apple

I have two Macs and 2 PCs at home. I have a MacBook Pro laptop which I love and an iMac which I like. While I'm not a fanboy, I'm at least an applecore who thinks that Apple products are not only cool but actually useful and important - especially...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-02-16

Talisma Launches Next Generation Sales Force Automation Solution by Moneycontrol.com

Talisma Corporation Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management CRM solutions, announced that the availability of their next generation Sales Force Automation Solution that allows businesses to automate their sales processes with sales tools that drive company value and enhance relationships with customers. This latest release is an...

Tags: Sales Force, Talisma Corp., SFA, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

White papers 2009-01-28

Rede Paranaense de Comunicacao Improves Client Service and Decreases Wait Times by 50%

Rede Paranaense de Comunicacao RPC wanted to gain a single platform to assist the different companies in their diverse, specific business activities, such as billing for the newspaper print classifieds and managing TV station and the advertising relationships and adopt a flexible solution to reduce the number of customizations in...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Classifieds, RPC, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Networking, Software

Case studies 2009-01-01

Epicor Software Case Study: Electrolux Comercial Venezuela, C.A

With the purpose to sustain its leadership in the Venezuelan market, Electrolux Comercial Venezuela, C.A., needed an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution that would allow them to improve agility in financial and logistic processes and facilitate the analysis of the information to guide them in reaching each of their objectives....

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2009-01-01

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

How Pathetic Can Telemarketing Get?

How Pathetic Can Telemarketing Get?Just like everything else in this world...You can hang up... you can delete the email.. you can ignore it.It looks like it might be political.I looked the number up at http://whocalled.us/lookup/8668493243 and a lot of people seem to be complaining about it being political calls.RE: How...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, telemarketing, Telemarketing Get, Pathetic

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

On-Demand Marketing Automation: Buyer's Checklist for Shopping for a Marketing Automation Provider

For organizations that have limited marketing budgets, are just starting out with e-marketing, or want to inexpensively augment existing programs, on-demand marketing automation is a great solution. Of course, one should use a structured assessment process to choose the best provider for them. First, identify and quantify the goals and...

Tags: On-demand, Automation, Marketbright, Marketing Automation, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2008-10-08

Surado Small Business CRM Software 5.1.34 (Windows)

Surado Small Business CRM is the complete solution in an easy to use, integrated package. It includes Contact & Account Management, Sales Automation, Marketing Automation, Customer Service, Project Management, and optional integration to QuickBooks and Peachtree. Surado Small Business CRM offers an unprecedented level of power and flexibility for small...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Surado Solutions, Surado Small Business CRM, Sales Strategy, Modems, Product Marketing, Sales Force Management, Microsoft Excel, Sales, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Accellion Secure File Transfer

Paula Skokowski, VP of Marketing for Accellion, and I had a lovely debate, err, conversation over the need for her company's product, a file transfer "virtualization" product. In the end, she won me over and I was forced through gritted teeth to agree that Accellion's managed file transfer solution could...

Tags: File, Accellion, E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Smart Turn: blowing up inventory management cost

I recently spent time noodling around SmartTurn an on-demand inventory and warehouse management application. I also spoke at length with Jim Burleigh, CEO and Richard Yim, VP products and marketing. Inventory and warehouse management is at once complex and costly, especially for tier 2 companies that have...

Tags: Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Pricing Strategy, SmartTurn, Richard Yim, Pricing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing Research, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-22

VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization

Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...

Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-09-17