Sheryl Kingstone
Sheryl Kingstone
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The wireless Web technology, like all great Internet breakthroughs, is surrounded by hype. However, the reality is that the United States has a growing mobile work force that could turn the hype into solving real business issues, inasmuch as wireless creates a new paradigm that no longer restricts workers by physical boundaries or a tethered desktop PC system.
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The contact center--the single most important point of contact for responding to customer needs--must become more agile, provide a consistent customer experience, and be optimized for improved performance. The Microsoft Customer Care Framework helps break down the current barriers that exist.
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CRM applications now can be so customized that it doesn't matter what the size of the customer is versus the size of the vendor.
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You can leverage the best of each application pretty easily. That creates a strong CRM strategy that would give a small business a good start.
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And the networking complexities of five years ago are gone.
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Premise-based equipment providers had no idea how to sell business applications.
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This is how these companies are trying to take advantage of the upheaval in the industry. They are trying to motivate a company to leave their existing software.
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Realize that Sage has been in the CRM space for a long time. They are not coming to the market with new technology; it's more of a repositioning and branding effort in the U.S. and globally.
coming effort market realize sage space
Realize that Sage has been in the CRM space for a long time, ... They are not coming to the market with new technology; it's more of a repositioning and branding effort in the U.S. and globally.
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I wouldn't say this is indicative of a trend or likely to happen again. A lot of the vendors are putting very large investments in place to prevent these sorts of situations.
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Mobile CRM solutions are improving customer focus and putting field sales and service forces together at the center of corporate revenue responsibility. Mobile CRM is showing its real value by helping performance-driven organizations sell smarter, deliver highly personalized services, and enjoy higher levels of customer satisfaction by delivering time-critical information to field personnel, when they need it most.
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Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.
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You don't spend that much money just for a customer base. If they discontinue the product, they're going to lose those customers anyway, because they won't be happy. So that means they would have spent billions for nothing.
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The number-one criteria for staying with a software-as-a-service vendor is going to be customer service and support.