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"Our Take"

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About "Our Take" 
"Our Take" is a collection of daily vignettes covering a wide range of CRM topics. It's an attempt to add our own spin to the world of CRM. We will use the column to share our perspectives, opinions, epiphanies, web nuggets, or quite frankly anything that moves us. Get ready to expect the unexpected. And, don't be shy about sharing your thoughts.
 
 
9/21/06 - New Suites - Not So Fast
Yesterday, I suggested that while suite solutions may be a bit out of favor in light of best-of-breed solutions because in part due to better integration tools, new multi-vendor ecosystems could become next generation suites - Suites 2.0, if you will.
 
I made the statement as a forward looking trend rather than today's reality. A few readers wanted to make sure that was the case. One wrote, "There is definitely a place for best of breed products and I whole-heartedly agree that standards like XML and web services have definitely made integration of best-of breed solutions much easier and ultimately less expensive. However, these integration standards are not a panacea."
 
He went on to write, "What they don’t resolve is how to share configuration data between applications. For example, most contact center agent profiles are historically configured in multiple applications making it difficult to gather real-time or historical reporting across those multiple applications." Good points. Recognizing these real life limitations today will hopefully provide industrial strength integrations solutions in the future.
 
Gary Lemke, Publisher
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