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                  CRMAdvocate Today - March 21, 2008


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Services Industry Summit
eServices Strategies and Challenges
 
April 21-23, 2008   -   Charleston, South Carolina

Industry luminaries from leading organizations will share insights into the hottest topic around - eService Strategies and Challenges!
 
The summit, which includes a pre-conference executive roundtable and workshop sessions, will feature presentations from industry leaders such as IBM Information Management Software, Nokia Enterprise Solutions, Vignette Corporation, Novell, Inc., McAfee, Inc., Consortium for Service Innovation, and more.
 
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  3/21/08 - Buy Versus Build - Is There a Third Option?
Every time I broach the question of build versus buy, I get a flood of comments. This is obvious a question many organizations continually wrestle. I have recently had some discussions with advocates offering a third option - open source CRM.
 
Companies like SugarCRM boast more than 3,000 installations. They claim to be offering similar functionality to SAP and Siebel with a higher degree of flexibility. They consider open source an alternative to on-demand and observe migrations away from the hosted model.
 
No doubt we are seeing open source momentum especially with market movements like Sun's billion dollar acquisition of MySQL. The open source movement is moving up the software chain from operating system, communications, tools, databases, etc. to applications. Is open source ready for CRM? Is CRM ready for open source?
 
Gary Lemke, Publisher
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  TODAY'S NEWS (more)

Aspect Software announced a corporate strategy to educate the market on the critical role the contact center must play in the development of an organization's overall unified communications strategy. A series of upcoming product enhancements designed to ensure seamless interoperability between Aspect Software solutions and unified communications applications will further support this initiative.

B2B marketing software firm Marketo announced the launch of the company and its product, Marketo Lead Management. Over the last year, Marketo has built a loyal base with its beta products.

Convergys Corporation has renewed a multi-year contract that will provide Cox Communications with expanded relationship management functionality to streamline order entry workflows, provide customer alerts, and manage campaigns in its markets. With over six-million customers, Cox is the United States' third-largest cable operator.

A new Harris Interactive study finds that mobile phone users are increasingly comfortable making banking and purchase transactions while on-the-go - a virtual taboo until now. The survey finds 16 percent of mobile phone subscribers already use mobile banking services, with 60 percent of these people using the services at least once a week.

Skywire Software, a provider of software and services to key vertical industries, has launched Documaker 11.3, the newest version of the customer communications management (CCM) suite.

To mark the introduction of its first eBook, Infusion Software launched a contest to find the most inspired small business. The contest is based on the eBook authored by Infusion Software's CEO, Clate Mask, "The Edge of Success: 9 Building Blocks to Double Your Sales."

Noble Amcat plans to demonstrate best-practices and new technologies for contact centres at the Contact Centre Evolution 2008 seminars in London and Manchester next month. Noble Amcat invites contact centre professionals to join them at these events to see how to increase their productivity and reduce their costs.

GMT announced a 35% leap in revenue growth over 2006. For the second year in a row, GMT's revenue growth greatly outpaced analyst growth projections, including Datamonitor's March 2007 "Contact Center Optimization" report which projected approximately 9% overall market growth in 2007.

Calabrio, Inc., a provider of workforce optimization and unified desktop software for IP-based contact centers, announced that it has added ABS Technology Architects to its list of resellers of the Calabrio One suite.

eOn Communications reported a net loss for the quarter was $999,000, or ($0.07) per common share, compared to a net loss of $1,015,000, or $(0.07) per common share in the quarter ended January 31, 2007.

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"Secrets of On-Demand Reporting"

Travis Huch, Vice President, DreamFactory

On-demand reporting and analytics is changing the way companies execute and manage their business due to flexibility in customization and configurability, cost and standardization of data. Making sure that your CRM investment is providing you with reporting visibility and real-time accuracy is essential to helping you grow your market and customer base. Join DreamFactory, a pioneer in providing the next generation business applications on SaaS platforms with customer, Salesforce.com on this informative webinar.

  

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