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Microsoft Cuts Prices on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Aggressively Courts Salesforce.com's And Oracle's CRM Customers
Posted Nov 03 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Microsoft has been aggressively courting CRM users this week. First, they announced price cuts to their online productivity suite, and yesterday they lowered prices on their Dynamics CRM Online product. In addition to slashing prices, ... Read More
Tips for Small Businesses Adopting CRM Systems
Posted Nov 02 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Small businesses tend to manage customer relationships through a number of different applications—documents, contact managers, spreadsheets, etc.—and it is those companies that have the most to gain from implementing a unified CRM system. To help ... Read More
iPhone CRM Apps Abound, Other Smartphones Work to Keep Up
Posted Oct 30 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
When it was launched two and a half years ago, the iPhone was in many ways the positioned as the non-enterprise smartphone. BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices were the phones for businessmen, and the iPhone ... Read More
Sales Force Automation to Soar After The Recession
Posted Oct 30 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Sales force automation (SFA) has been growing steadily over the past few years, and the folks at CRM Buyer predict that when the economy leaves its slump, SFA will surge. Most apparently, SFA is making inroads ... Read More
The Hybrid SaaS Model Gains More Ground: CDC Moves toward The Future with A New Acquisition
Posted Oct 28 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Not long ago, CDC Software announced plans to acquire on-demand companies in order to create one SaaS software solutions provider to complement its on-premise products for various verticals. Last week, CDC announced they have signed ... Read More
SaaS Exploding in Hybrid Form
Posted Oct 26 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Recently, global IT consultancy Avanade commissioned Kelton Research for a global study about cloud computing and the adoption of SaaS, and the findings were pretty remarkable. The prominent thread in the study was that SaaS ... Read More
Was Marc Benioff at Oracle OpenWorld As A Nod to Oracle's Move toward The Cloud?
Posted Oct 22 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Cloud computing is here to stay, which is a certainty that even Larry Ellison embraces, even for all his posturing with Salesforce.com founder—and self-proclaimed “cloud-computing evangelist”—Marc Benioff. Last week at Oracle OpenWorld in San ... Read More
More and More Mobile: Oracle Siebel and Samsung SDS Take CRM to Smartphones
Posted Oct 21 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
The outpouring of Oracle OpenWorld news continues: Samsung SDS and Oracle have co-developed a native mobile CRM application. Last week, demonstrations of the new application were held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, ... Read More
Global Success: SugarCRM Customer Awarded Best Practices Award
Posted Oct 19 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Two weeks ago, the annual CRM Expo was held in Nuremberg, Germany, and SugarCRM client 3Dconnexion was awarded the 2009 CRM Best Practice Award. The award is most certainly a testament to the value and ... Read More
Oracle Announcements Forecast Coming Changes in CRM Development
Posted Oct 16 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Keynote speeches at Oracle OpenWorld (which wrapped up yesterday), didn’t necessarily announce radically new concepts, but that certain strategies were promoted at this well-attended event speaks to the certainty of future changes in Oracle’s CRM ... Read More