Why CRM and Social Media is More Important in a Recession
February 11, 2009 by Jimson Lee · 1 Comment
The Recession is producing a cut-throat approach to sales. In the past, SaaS companies used to go after customers using a traditional hosted or shrink-wrapped software. Now SaaS is going after it’s own kind. I’ve read so many press releases and seen so many ads on how you can switch your CRM companies at a [...]
Helpstream Announces Winter 2009 Release
February 10, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
New Release Offers Ground Breaking Community-Driven Service Functionality and Tight Integrations with Oracle® CRM On Demand and Salesforce.com Mountain View, CA — Helpstream®, the world’s first truly social customer service and relationship management system, today announced general availability of the Winter 2009 release containing over 40 powerful enhancements to help service organizations drive higher customer [...]
Salesforce.com Kicks Off the Year of Cloud Computing With Salesforce CRM Spring 09
February 10, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
28th generation release allows companies to more effectively grow their business without growing capital expense or headcount The Service Cloud transforms the quality and lowers the cost of service by leveraging expertise gained from conversations taking place in the cloud The Sales Cloud defines the next generation of collaboration, transforming the relationship between sales, marketing [...]
Confirmit Launches First Fully On-Demand, Multi-Channel Platform for Customer and Employee Feedback
February 4, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
New York, NY and Oslo, Norway –- Confirmit announces the launch of Confirmit Horizons, the first fully on-demand, multi-channel platform for Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback, and market research applications. Confirmit Horizons enables businesses to conduct multi-channel feedback programs both on and offline, using the Web, telephone, paper, IVR, mobile and other data collection methods. Businesses [...]
SugarCRM Announces Sugar Authorized Learning Program to Provide CRM Best Practices
February 3, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
Levementum, Plus Consulting, Redpill-Linpro, Bhea Knowledge Technologies and iZeno Among Certified Partner Providers in North America, Europe and Asia CUPERTINO, Calif. – SugarCRM Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced the Sugar Authorized Learning Program to accelerate the adoption of CRM best practices across its global [...]
Knowledge-as-a-Service (KaaS)
February 2, 2009 by Jimson Lee · Leave a Comment
How many types of INSERT_KEY_WORD_HERE-as-a-service exist? We all know of SaaS (Software), PaaS (Platform), IaaS (Infrastructure) & MaaS (Mobility) Now we have Knowledge as a Service (KaaS). Here is an interesting article on Knowledge as a Service (KaaS). Thei Geurts illustrates how KaaS can help support an agile enterprise in a networked knowledge economy. Thei [...]
IBM and iEnterprises Offer CRM Software as a Service to Help Smaller Companies Compete With Larger Rivals
February 1, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
ARMONK, NY – IBM and iEnterprises, are working with small and mid-sized construction companies to help them run their businesses more intelligently by reconfiguring their customer relationship management (CRM) systems via Software as a Service (SaaS). Hosted on IBM technology, iEnterprises provides CRM software — tailored to industries including construction, pharmaceutical, legal and others — [...]
Avidian Technologies Brings Hosted CRM Software to Outlook with Release of Prophet OnDemand
January 27, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
Companies Looking for the Fastest Deployment and Lowest Upfront Cost Option Can Now Close More Sales inside of Outlook Using Prophet OnDemand REDMOND, Wash.–Avidian Technologies today announced the launch of Prophet OnDemand, the newest team version of its industry-leading Outlook-based contact management and customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Prophet OnDemand is the Software as a [...]
Five9 Brings Cloud Computing to Call Centers
January 24, 2009 by CRM Helpdesk Software · Leave a Comment
Five9 Announces the New Release of Virtual Call Center Suite 7.1 On-Demand Call Center Software PLEASANTON, Calif. — Five9, the leader in on-demand call center software announced today the general availability of its Virtual Call Center Suite 7.1. The new release includes a new workforce management offering, and a wealth of additional features focused on [...]
Gartner 2009 Forecast: IT Spending Flat, but Outsourcing will Grow
January 22, 2009 by Jimson Lee · Leave a Comment
There were two interesting press releases from Gartner last week that caused mixed emotions in the IT world. The news was good or bad, depending on how you looked at it. 1. Gartner Says Outsourcing Will Continue to Grow in 2009 Despite Economic Slowdown (press release here) 2. Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of More than [...]
