Business-to-consumer companies will look at optimising marketing campaigns and call centre operations, while business-to-business companies typically focus on optimising direct sales efforts and customer service.
Ebusiness - i.e.customer interactions over the web - is actually the area where they are weakest. This is designed to cut out a lot of the hit-and-run sales tactics that dog the software industry, and CRM in particular.
Many of the big customer relationship management (CRM) players - including eWare, Onyx, Oracle, and Siebel - are hungrily bidding for contracts in the government space. Oracle recently signed a deal with Cambridge City Council, which is projected...
The first involves using technologies such as integrated voice response (IVR) systems for telephony (from the likes of CTI Labs, MagicPhone, Parity, Periphonics and Vocalis), frequently asked questions (FAQs) systems for web-based interactions...
Instead, the goal became reducing the cost of customer interactions to the minimum tolerable level or less. Some claim customer relationship management (CRM) is an important candidate for public sector spending.
This may not be the case when they are on the road, however, where interactions may currently be predominantly phone-based but may change as new mobile devices and technologies are adopted. The use of least cost routing (including basic IVR, web...