The Basics Of CRM

The Basics Of CRM A brief introduction to Customer Relationship Management

What is CRM ?

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) are the concepts used by organizations to manage their relationships with customers. This includes

Capturing Leads

Storage and analysis of the customers, vendors and partners

Internal information (organizational)

CRM Ecosystem

Coined in by META group CRM has 3 aspects

Operational

Collaborative

Analytical

Operational Aspect Operational aspect of CRM is automation to Customer’s processes including front office sales / service and marketing representative. Any customer interaction is recorded by CRM, so that any one can retrieve the customer information at anytime without having to interfere about interaction history

Collaborative Aspect Direct interaction with customers without interference of sales representative. Cost reduction and better customer services through automated voice response, email feedbacks, SMS, IVR etc.

Analytical Aspect Analysis of Customer Data for purposes like optimizing marketing effectiveness, customer retention, behavioral analysis, decision making

Key Features of CRM

A Typical CRM consists of 3 Sub Modules:

Marketing

Sales

Services

Key Features of CRM A Typical CRM consists of 3 Sub Modules: Marketing, Sales And Services

Main Share in Market

According to Gartner a 2005 study shows earnings like

SAP – 1475 million US$

Siebel – 966 million US$

Oracle – 368 million US$

Salesforce – 281 million US$

amdocs – 276 million US$

Others – 2,333 million US$

CRM Now

With increasing popularity of Open Source vendors have started openly marketing CRM. Some Open source CRM’s to note are:

Sugar CRM http://www. sugarcrm .com/ crm /

XRMS http:// xrms . sourceforge .net/ pagebuilder . php ?s1=18

Vtiger http://www. vtiger .com

OpenCRX http://www. opencrx .org/

Top CRM Companies Siebel, Amdocs, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, EDS, Avaya, Baan, Aspect, E.piphany, Pivotal, Kana, eGain, Primus, Quintus, Trilogy, Motive, Brightware, Annuncio

At The End Choosing the right CRM helps Client interaction and understanding efficient initiating process of better service and customer retention. Thanks Amal Krishna Biswas All Logos are Copyrighted and registered by respective Companies. Used as in basis for a CRM Presentation and Company awareness.