The document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) including definitions of CRM, its goals, main components, and what financial institutions want from CRM systems. Specifically, it provides 6 common definitions of CRM focusing on managing customer interactions and relationships. It then discusses CRM's goals of optimizing profitability, revenue and customer satisfaction. The main parts of CRM are described as analytical CRM to gain customer insights and operational CRM to manage interactions through various channels. Finally, the benefits financial institutions want from CRM are increasing profits through better targeting, segmentation, and customer retention while reducing costs.