U.S. jewelry and watch sales across all channels fell 1.7 percent year on year to $5.386 billion in March, as estimated from preliminary government figures. According to Rapaport News calculations, jewelry sales dropped 1.5 percent to ...
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CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation has launched its new website and CRM software called 'DiseaseTrak'. Apart from implementing DiseaseTrak, CancerCare will now offer same-day determination and conditional approval for cancer ...
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The sales process in Freight Transportation has undergone major changes over the last decade. The economics of having a street sales team is being called into question when you consider the compensation, incentives, office space, car ...
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SAP is buying privately held Hybris in a bid to build out an e-commerce software offering that connects with customers across multiple "channels, devices and touch points." Terms of the deal, which was announced Wednesday, were not ...
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Salesforce.com plans to ship in the second half of the year a hosted application for companies to create intranets that are accessible via mobile devices and that offer enterprise social networking (ESN) capabilities to employees. Called ...
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Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Microsoft recently implemented a feature in Office 365 called Connect ...
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LinkedIn has revamped the contacts management feature of its professional networking website and packaged the functionality into a new iOS application. The company will begin on Thursday a limited trial of the new LinkedIn Contacts with ...
Salesforce.com will upgrade its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application for iOS and release one for the first time for Android on Tuesday, delivering in both new capabilities to integrate them with its main CRM software. ...
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Microsoft's AX ERP application will be receiving a set of mobile applications that mix connectivity to back-end systems and processes with a social milieu. The applications, which will be available as part of the next update to AX 2012, ...
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Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM software market by linking its own Dynamics CRM application with new capabilities for marketing automation and social media analysis. Microsoft's ...
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Pegasystems has partnered with Vormetric to boost its cloud security following a number of hacking attacks on high profile websites. There have been no attacks on Pegasystems, which is a provider of business process management (BPM) and ...
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Customer relationship management software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications around the world this year and next, according to newly released data from analyst firm Gartner. The category edged out ...
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CRM (customer relationship management) software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications around the world this year and next, according to newly released data from analyst firm Gartner. The category ...
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Research reveals that almost half of European businesses plan to increase their budgets for CRM initiatives in 2013. A recent survey by Gartner found that only 5% of companies in Europe plan to decrease their CRM this year, down from 9% ...
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Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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