Telicia Hill Hope Iglehart Nickie Shore: Customer Relationship Management
Telicia Hill Hope Iglehart Nickie Shore: Customer Relationship Management
Telicia Hill Hope Iglehart Nickie Shore: Customer Relationship Management
Telicia Hill
Hope Iglehart
Nickie Shore
• What is CRM?
• Benefits of CRM
• Who Uses CRM?
• Possible Pitfalls
• Cost of CRM
• Market Leaders
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• Customer Relationship Management
• Business strategy - puts the customer at
the heart of the business
• Helps manage more customer interactions
faster
• Consolidates customer information for
analysis and viewing
• Tracks:
– customers
– sales prospects
– people interaction management needs
• Turns large amounts of data into useful
information
• Captures customer information converts it to
actionable processes
• Sales, Marketing, Customer Service
Partners Marketing
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• Manages Customer Interactions
Faster
• Increases Revenue
• Increases Profitability
• Improves Customer Loyalty
• Gains Competitive Advantages
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• Difficult to estimate cost
• Most companies underestimate cost
• Price ranges depend upon complexity
• $1,000 to $50,000
• Positive return on investment
• High Complexity:
– Siebel Systems
– SAP
– Amdocs
• Medium Complexity
– Siebel Systems
– MicroSoft
– PeopleSoft
• Low Complexity
– Sales Logix
– MicroSoft
– NetSuite
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• Challenge is to open all barriers for
customers
• Trend of the future
• Price ranges & packages for most
• Success requires planning
• Miller, Ian (2005). What Exactly is CRM? Retrieved June 15,2005 From:
http://www.customerservicemanager.com/what_exactly_is_crm.htm
• Morphy, Erika (2001). The Real Cost of CRM. Retrieved June 26,2005,
from http://www.crm-daily.com/perl/story/14447.html
• Vreede Van Sheree (2003). CRM Call Center Software Market Trends.
Faulkners Advisory for IT Studies. Retrieved on July 6, 2005
from:http://www.faulkner.com.ezproxy.piedmont.edu products/faulkner
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