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A tremendous amount has changed in the enterprise applications market over the last10 years of development that has had a direct impact on mid market organizations today. As is the case with many technology advancements, what was once costly and difficult becomes more refined and accessible over time. Evolutions in open standards, Web technologies, and development environments are now benefiting the mid market segment. A new wave of CRM solutions has recently arrived on the market that should be of significant interest to mid market managers because these systems have been designed to bring greater affordability to companies that are mandated to keep a close watch on their monetary resources at all times. These new solutions for managing customer relationships offer a codeless development environment in which the customization process for modifying an application is considerably simplified and consistency can be achieved for easier IT management.

A CRM solution that has been custom-tailored to fit a company’s exact business needs and goals can enable the company to increase its sales as well as its product distribution. A customized solution that affords innovative features and deep

Functionality for further increasing user productivity can allow a company to deliver superior business results. Moreover, when a company embeds its own best practices into its CRM applications and this is extended outward, it can realize far greater consistencies in its business processes throughout its own operation as well as in its interactions with external constituencies.

Using CRM as a Management tool

When analytic tools are integrated into CRM as now can be found in the new, modern solutions, the bottom-line benefits can be substantial. Analytic applications help guide strategy formulation and operational improvement. Using these tools, a company (and its partners) can conduct analytic activities such as market segmentation and forecasting, budgeting and planning, and sales analysis and optimization. Analytics provide the foundation for understanding the way that customers interact with the company. They have the ability to track customers’ every move, track campaign effectiveness, and identify the most valuable customers. While large and enterprise class organizations have the luxury of being able to employ business analysts internally for this insight, this capability has been far outside the resources of the mid market organization. However, with analytics built into these new CRM solutions, mid market customers not only have access to the capability, but it is delivered within the context of the business process. When companies can more accurately forecast outcomes of customer behavior and analyze alternative actions, they are better enabled to increase revenue and profits as well as contain costs. Analytic applications are of tremendous benefit to mid market companies because they can identify more ways for companies to save money. Since mid market companies have fewer resources available to them compared with larger rival corporations, business intelligence tools can help them gain an added competitive edge.

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