Lithium’s flexible Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution maximizes the benefits and minimizes the risks of enterprise communities by providing a winning combination of on-demand forums, blogs, chat, tribal knowledge bases, and other social networking tools, coupled with innovative analytics and the experience and expertise gained from more than ten years of hosting communities for large enterprises.
Today, ERP software vendors have tailored their product for SMBs. Better still, there are ERP systems such as Jim2 Business Engine that are designed specifically for SMBs so they can take advantage of ERP for maximum efficiency in conducting business.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) just isn’t what it used to be. Conceived as automated tools to help sales personnel maintain records of contacts, sales-related activities, and individual and team’s progress toward goals and quotas, today’s scope has become much more far reaching.
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Until recently there has been no solution to help manage the complex tasks involved with multi-step, multi-media follow up. People have been forced to come up with “creative” ways to get the follow up done… and believe me, I’ve seen some amazing creativity.
Now more than ever, organizations of all sizes and descriptions are struggling to comply with regulations and manage the risks and penalties of failing to operate within the rules. Establishing, maintaining and proving compliance requires both money and time that executives and shareholders would rather invest in top-line growth.
Emulating the model of the private sector, local governments are stretching to improve the quality and convenience of services provided to their citizenry and other constituents. The standard for service has been changing rapidly, with a dramatic raise of the bar of expectations for the availability and responsiveness of service resources. Customers in the for-profit world have come to expect seamless and convenient self-service options as well as integrated and accurate information from their service providers.
With an economic downturn still being touted just about everywhere, it’s an ideal time to recap on “getting back to the basics” of good business management practice. Cuts in discretionary spending are not the only measure to keep your business running strong.
When adopting a new CRM solution into your company, it’s important to follow these CRM best practices.
See why the Yankee Group says that the TCO for on-demand solutions is much better than that of traditional on-premises solutions – even when evaluated over a 3 to 5 year period. On-premises solutions require significant investments in IT infrastructure and application deployment, support and update resources.