The single biggest challenge with any customer relationship management (CRM) application is getting salespeople to use it. Most CRM applications are selected by sales and finance managers in ...

Customer relationship management (CRM) solutions have become a must-have for businesses of all kinds. It’s not enough to just deploy a CRM solution—you need to deploy the right one. But with multiple ...

The future of customer relationships depends more on context than transactions. And this trend is accelerating, driven by the integration of social media into customer relationship management (CRM), ...

[Editors' Note: At CRM magazine's recent CRM Evolution 2010 conference in New York, Milletti participated in a panel discussion on the topic of application development for CRM. CRM Evolution attendees ...

One of the more difficult challenges that many organizations still face when deploying customer relationship management (CRM) software is actually getting salespeople to use it. Salespeople are still ...

In most organizations, associating the CRM application with the business intelligence (BI) system can provide all the magical spells required to enchant customers and ensure their continued loyalty.

The tipping point of on-premise versus SaaS-based CRM deployments is arriving next year, and Gartner anticipates “that SaaS deployments of CRM will reach a maximum 80% to 85% by 2025”. These and other ...

These and many other fascinating insights are from Gartner’s What’s Hot in CRM Applications in 2018 by Ed Thompson, Adam Sarner, Tad Travis, Guneet Bharaj, Sandy Shen and Olive Huang, published on ...

Many CRM users find that their investments in CRM systems are not providing the benefits originally promised by their service providers. While service providers are quick to advertise the ...

The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market is heating up, with most of the major software vendors touting their own solutions. Most businesses face a similar challenge -- how do you manage the ...

Just a few short years ago, the effectiveness of pushing back-end business applications onto small mobile devices was mediocre, at best. The devices weren’t that powerful. Mobile networks were orders ...

Business users get customisation help in the next version of the open source firm's customer relationship management software The next version of SugarCRM's open source CRM application, due for ...