Cloud based Applications – Seven Compelling Benefits

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Cloud based Applications – Seven Compelling Benefits

Existing in-house applications are being shifted to the cloud environment. Among the new applications built – most of them are cloud based. Overall, there is an unprecedented demand of cloud-based applications.

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Benefits of Ecommerce for Small Business

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Benefits of Ecommerce for Small Business

Electronic Commerce, also known as ecommerce defines purchasing and selling of products or services over the Internet. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of ecommerce websites with many small businesses developing their online stores.

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The rise of Cloud technology and its compelling benefits

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The rise of Cloud technology and its compelling benefits

Customers are now hyper-connected across mobile, social and traditional channels. They’re more informed about products and services and are empowered to make choices. They expect instant gratification and fast
response times.

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Easy marketing strategy: invest on your present customers to get new ones

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Easy marketing strategy: invest on your present customers to get new ones

The rise of cut-throat competition in the corporate sphere has compelled organizations to brainstorm business marketing strategies. Prolonged discussions; endless cups of coffee and analysis of the competitors’ marketing schemes – have become common in every company.

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CRM – tackling your sales challenges

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CRM – tackling your sales challenges

The fact that CRM offers comprehensive customer management solution to businesses across all verticals, has been said ad infinitum; It’s time we move over it!

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Few Criteria for Evaluating Service Providers for CRM Customization and Development

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Few Criteria for Evaluating Service Providers for CRM Customization and Development

An enterprise CRM system is capable of tracking down all sorts of interaction with the client through various means like email, online conversation, direct mails or through POS interaction. CRM customization also is highly desirable. So evaluating a CRM service provider is one of the important decisions to be undertaken by the entrepreneur for getting desirable results.

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Combating cloud related uncertainty for a smooth migration

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Combating cloud related uncertainty for a smooth migration

Are emotions such as uncertainty and fear preventing you from moving to the much in demand virtualized environment? If yes, then perhaps you are not the only one to feel so. Surprisingly, a section of IT executives have pointed out that doubt and uncertainty about different aspects of cloud computing and cloud vendors is troubling potential buyers.

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Is your CRM delivering the SIX basic Benefits?

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Is your CRM delivering the SIX basic Benefits?

CRM is essential for every business. Now while most implement it, very few take the pain of evaluating its performance.

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Five key lessons to create customers for life

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Five key lessons to create customers for life

‘’Please hold as we direct your call to the customer executive…All our customer executives are attending other customer calls…Please stay on the line as your call is important to us’’ – An oxymoronic statement!

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This Valentine, hold your customers for life through a lovable customer experience

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This Valentine, hold your customers for life through a lovable customer experience

Any business that aims to achieve long-term success must first understand the importance/value of having a lifetime relationship with a customer.

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Why CRM initiative fails and what should be the right CRM strategy – straight from the experts

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Why CRM initiative fails and what should be the right CRM strategy – straight from the experts

CRM implementations have been patchy and enterprises’ concern about the same has amplified. What is the reason?

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Are you buying CRM right way?

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Are you buying CRM right way?

Wading into the waters of buying CRM? If yes, by all likelihood you will require a fail-safe plan to evade the tones of buzzwords about to come your way.

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Gartner CRM Guide, 2014: More Than 50% of CRM Will Be Deployed As SaaS by 2015

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Gartner CRM Guide, 2014: More Than 50% of CRM Will Be Deployed As SaaS by 2015

Gartner CRM Guide, 2014: More Than 50% of CRM Will Be Deployed As SaaS.

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Use the magic wand called CRM to improve your business

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Use the magic wand called CRM to improve your business

Learn how cloud CRM solution works like a magic wand to improve your entire business operations.

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No matter how good your cloud CRM is it’s your employees who will make it work for you

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No matter how good your cloud CRM is it’s your employees who will make it work for you

Investing in a high end cloud CRM solution will not benefit your business. Learn the 4 easy ways on how you can involve your employees to gain the highest return from your cloud CRM investment

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Are your Marketing efforts getting into the right direction?

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Are your Marketing efforts getting into the right direction?

This blog provides exclusive excerpts from SMB Market Research 2014 report to showcase how the small businesses are investing their hard-earned dollars in wrong marketing areas.

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Is your Business failing because of these three reasons? (Correct them before you enter 2015)

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Is your Business failing because of these three reasons? (Correct them before you enter 2015)

Learn the three crucial mistakes that make the small businesses lag behind in the corporate world.

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What makes a Great Manager? (5 attributes)

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What makes a Great Manager? (5 attributes)

Learn the best five attributes that you need to look into an individual when hiring him as the manager of your team.

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December 2014: A 4-step checklist for Small Businesses

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December 2014: A 4-step checklist for Small Businesses

The blog talks about the four main things that every small business should do during December to ensure a smooth roadmap for the coming year.

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Why do you urgently need to build a Mobile App for your Customers?

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Why do you urgently need to build a Mobile App for your Customers?

Investing in mobile applications is essential and businesses who understand this are emerging to be the true winners. That is because mobile applications are empowering businesses to do their sales, marketing and service to customers – in the right fashion.

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Customer Service Trends for 2015

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Customer Service Trends for 2015

Customer service is no longer considered to be an extension but an integral part of the business process.

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Learn why your sales team needs a mobile CRM NOW

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Learn why your sales team needs a mobile CRM NOW

So, you’re sales team is growing. Good! But it is taxing. Especially in today’s time when the competition has surfaced to a new level altogether – you need to be at your toes to ensure that your sales graphs do not steep downward.

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Why online retailers need CRM more than ever

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Why online retailers need CRM more than ever

2009 Gartner study pointed out retail CRM to be one of the most crucial and in-demand software applications. Five to seven years down the line, the prediction has come true.

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Planning for your Year End holidays? First take a look at these pointers

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Planning for your Year End holidays? First take a look at these pointers

This blog talks about the steps that every business entrepreneur needs to take before heading off to their yearend vacation in December.

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Delight your customers with these 5 creative ways

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Delight your customers with these 5 creative ways

It costs ten times more to win a new customer than to keep a current one. So customer retention is the key for every small and large business.

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Suggested Business Trends for this year (2015)

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Suggested Business Trends for this year (2015)

Renowned business expert and author Ian Altman has released top 10 business trends for 2015. These trends are framed in consideration of the past, present and future business scenarios and is expected to have a significant impact on those organizations who embrace them.

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Check if your CRM system is an asset or a liability for your organization

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Check if your CRM system is an asset or a liability for your organization

You have a healthy work culture; a committed workforce; a strong pipeline of marketing campaigns, but still your organization is failing to generate the right ROI? If yes, then perhaps you need to recheck your enterprise software applications.

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Change Your CRM to A Complete Sales Tool

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Change Your CRM to A Complete Sales Tool

CRM can prove to be a powerful tool to supercharge your business when used correctly. Though it had a humble beginning as a contact manager it has matured to become an integrated part of enterprise business application suite.

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Finding the right development company for your Custom Software Project

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Finding the right development company for your Custom Software Project

The dilemma between choosing off-the shelf product or developing custom software puts many business entrepreneurs in a fix.

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How does a CRM work for small business?

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How does a CRM work for small business?

The idea of customer management is not a modern concept. Even in the past businessmen have emphasized on maintaining good and cordial business relations with customers to retain them and to earn their loyalty.

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Are you prepared for this Christmas

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Are you prepared for this Christmas

Most of you might think that talking about Christmas is quite early now. True, however, if you are a business entrepreneur or a business associate – then indeed you should start discussing points for the coming festive season. Wonder why? We’ll give you the reason.

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Cloud CRM – designed for today’s business needs

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Cloud CRM – designed for today’s business needs

Customer relationship management (CRM) software has come a long way. While today CRM experiences an unquestionable popularity, how many of us actually know about its rocky history.

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Current trends that define the future of Enterprise Applications!

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Current trends that define the future of Enterprise Applications!

A massive technological advancement has brought about a change in our ideas about business ownership and also that of enterprise applications.

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Cloud Computing trend for the next 2 years

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Cloud Computing trend for the next 2 years

Cloud computing is about to generate 14 million new jobs in the next two years, as predicted by International Data Corporation.

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And you thought multichannel customer service is not important…

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And you thought multichannel customer service is not important…

Delivering high quality customer-service isn’t easy – A sentence most of the business owners will agree with. Reason – well, gone are the days when a customer could communicate to a business through only one-to-one channels such as in person or in phone.

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6 best examples to show the benefit of public cloud services

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6 best examples to show the benefit of public cloud services

Public cloud solutions have commonly been seen in a sea of distrust because of their inability to overcome enterprise governance and reliability concerns.

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How can you make your Christmas sale better?

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How can you make your Christmas sale better?

Christmas is around the corner and so is the most important time of the year for retailers to capitalize upon. With some forecasters suggesting that 2013 could be one of the best years since the financial crisis began, retailers around the world are wishing for a plentiful Christmas this time.

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4 easy ways to shorten your sales cycle

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4 easy ways to shorten your sales cycle

Shortening the sales cycle is high on priority on any sales manager’s wish list. Wonder why? It is due to the extreme length of the sales cycle that sometimes prospects just don’t see enough value to act.

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How To Integrate Between SaaS CRM And On-Premise Software

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How To Integrate Between SaaS CRM And On-Premise Software

Software as a service has become a popular choice among businesses for enterprise applications such as customer relationship management software.

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Social CRM, a new dimension for online Marketing

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Social CRM, a new dimension for online Marketing

Social media is currently shaping the future for enterprises. An increasing number of companies are now training their employees to become social media experts so that they can promote their companies on these social channels and become brand ambassadors.

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CRM Expanding Horizon to Entertainment

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CRM Expanding Horizon to Entertainment

Who says CRM is a serious business solution only for suit clad corporate managers? CRM can be entertaining too.

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CRM-ERP Integration for Leveraging Your Full Business Potential

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CRM-ERP Integration for Leveraging Your Full Business Potential

CRM and ERP applications are essential business tools for an enterprise in organizing, managing and monitoring its operation.

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The 3 Most Popular Trends among the Small to Medium Sized Businesses

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The 3 Most Popular Trends among the Small to Medium Sized Businesses

Discover the three latest trends that small-to-medium businesses are implementing to compete with the larger enterprises.

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Why You Should Take Mobile CRM App Designing Seriously

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Why You Should Take Mobile CRM App Designing Seriously

Mobile app designing hasn’t been as important as it is now. An overall change in attitude is taking place with growing popularity of handheld, internet enabled devices.

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Demystifying Five Cloud Myths

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Demystifying Five Cloud Myths

The IT industry has been caught in the frenzy of cloud computing. As a result, there have been a lot of true and not so true statements floating around which are contributing to the already existing confusion.

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What makes Open Source Software best for any business?

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What makes Open Source Software best for any business?

Open source software has risen in popularity and is now ruling the roost. According to industry research, more than half of the software built in the last two years have been on open source platforms.

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Why should the bright future of Connected Cars matter to you?

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Why should the bright future of Connected Cars matter to you?

Connected Cars is the most significant outcome of IoT. Almost every research body and industry expert has predicted an unprecedented growth of connected cars in the next few years.

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Why Private Cloud Is Not A General Solution For All

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Why Private Cloud Is Not A General Solution For All

There is a general consensus that private cloud adoption is going to drive the trends in the coming days. This has been influenced by public cloud concerns – lack of security, limited control over data, future costs etc.

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What Applications Are Best Suited For Cloud?

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What Applications Are Best Suited For Cloud?

Currently being on cloud is on vogue. There is a rush among businesses to grab hold early advantages of being on cloud. Some are in the process of transferring their entire business to cloud environment.

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A quick overview on the growth and popularity of Enterprise Applications

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A quick overview on the growth and popularity of Enterprise Applications

Massive technological advancement and concentrated business processes have led business owners look for smarter business ownership and management solutions.

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How can you choose the right ERP software for your business?

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How can you choose the right ERP software for your business?

Are you looking for the right ERP package for your small and medium-sized business? If yes, then you have come to the right place! In what follows is a detailed discussion on how an entrepreneur/business owner can choose the right ERP package for his enterprise.

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How to beat your competitors in sales

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How to beat your competitors in sales

Let’s admit it – we all have experienced instances where we have wasted our time and resources on a lead only to derive NOTHING out of it. In spite of knowing that our product/service suits the lead, we have not been able to round up the conversation.

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Customized software: facts every company should know

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Customized software: facts every company should know

The face of the corporate world has changed and how! One of the best examples to show this is the high adoption rate in which companies are reevaluating their technological needs.

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Are you dealing with the right cloud service provider?

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Are you dealing with the right cloud service provider?

Cisco’s strategic marketing organization has stated – global spending on cloud services to grow from $72.6 billion to $181 billion in the next two years, representing a 20 percent CAGR

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Cloud Computing – what has the leaders and statistics stated

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Cloud Computing – what has the leaders and statistics stated

Till date, cloud computing has created quite a stir in the technological world. Although the benefits of cloud have been discussed ad infinitum, experts feel that solid examples of cloud-enabled transformation have not been spoken enough.

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Can Outlook Be An Alternative Of CRM For Smbs?

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Can Outlook Be An Alternative Of CRM For Smbs?

There are many opinions both in for and against of using Microsoft Outlook as an alternative for CRM software. Adoption of CRM solutions among small businesses has always been affected by the high cost of the product.

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Applications That Aren’t Meant For Cloud

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Applications That Aren’t Meant For Cloud

Will all my applications run on cloud? It is the most common question that is asked too often by enterprises looking for improved IT solution in cloud.

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4 easy strategies to boost your business

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4 easy strategies to boost your business

Small and medium-sized businesses across the globe are heavily relying on technology. The aim is to strengthen marketing, sales and customer engagement activities.

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Three ways how cloud CRM solution can take your Sales Conversation to Conversion

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Three ways how cloud CRM solution can take your Sales Conversation to Conversion

Learn how cloud CRM solution plays an important role in taking the sales conversation to the final stages of deal closure.

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Marketers vying for cloud technology – Why and How

Cloud Computing is not a new concept anymore. The past decade has seen a growing number of organizations opting for hosted e-mail, cloud based applications, and a spate of other tools that fall under the software-as-a-service (SaaS) banner.

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How to choose the right Cloud ERP software?

The pressure on every business to succeed with controlled costs and standardized process is immense. Not to forget, things have got further compounded, thanks to lack of skilled IT resources.

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Four tech-driven strategies to help SMBs expand their business

Business growth comes with a price – a statement that was true until the introduction of corporate technology. Confused? Read further-

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Customer Journey Maps – what you know about it?

Customer journey mapping is a trending idea. To explain journey mapping in layman terms – it refers to an idea/diagram that illustrates the touchpoints customer(s) go through in engaging with a company.

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Valuable tips on how to leverage mobile CRM for best results!

To keep pace with the world where mobile technology is creating a big buzz, having mobile CRM application development is the call of the season. It thus highlights your excellent business sense.

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Online retailers are failing to generate the desired ROI from their ecommerce website – What’s the reason??

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Online retailers are failing to generate the desired ROI from their ecommerce website – What’s the reason??

Ecommerce is one of the most booming fields. But surprisingly, most retailers are struggling to generate ROI from their online storefronts. Experts believe that a change of approach is required to tackle this problem.

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Cloud Database Management System – Have you opted for it?

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Cloud Database Management System – Have you opted for it?

Database Management System is a new emerging concept recently introduced in the world. And the factor that has given birth to this is Big Data. The onset of Big Data has turned out to be the goldmine for businesses.

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The Key to a Successful Custom Software Development

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The Key to a Successful Custom Software Development

From major customizations of the pre-developed platforms to full-cycle development – businesses are opting for custom software development. The objective is one – to have a software that is aligned with the business vision and increases the productivity.

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How to build a loyalty program for low customer defection?

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How to build a loyalty program for low customer defection?

According to Accenture Research Report (conducted by Janet L. Hoffman and Eric M. Lowitt), the risk of customer defection in the retail sector is about to skyrocket.

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Gartner Speaks: CRM will be the top software investment

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Gartner Speaks: CRM will be the top software investment

Gartner Newsroom has issued another press release highlighting the growing trend of CRM applications. It starts off with describing how organizations are leveraging CRM to enhance the customer experience.

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How has cloud become the SMBs’ weapon to compete with their bigger rivals?

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How has cloud become the SMBs’ weapon to compete with their bigger rivals?

It’s common knowledge – customers compare businesses based on the type and quality of service they provide. Service standard (how high or low it is) acts as the differentiating factor. Furthermore, Perception of good service crosses vertical lines i.e. the service offered by a company affects the customers’ interactions with other companies.

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Planning To Build Your Ecommerce Business – Take This Tip from the Experts

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Planning To Build Your Ecommerce Business – Take This Tip from the Experts

Learn what the industry renowned experts are recommending to increase the effectiveness of ecommerce business operations.

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Find the best custom software development company with these FIVE tricks in your sleeve

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Find the best custom software development company with these FIVE tricks in your sleeve

Hiring a custom software development company can put any business entrepreneur in a dilemma. Reason being that most of them have realized the fact that selecting a vendor solely on the parameter of low pricing can leave their company floating in a situation of plight with failed software deployment and difficult user interface.

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The hottest new thing in IT is IoT

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The hottest new thing in IT is IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) has made realize the unreal – that is a dynamic network of objects that are connected with each other. According to Cisco’s report, the IoT network has grown at an unimaginable pace which has brought the total number of connected devices to some billions today.

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Why is Cloud still Under-Hyped?

We’ve all seen technologies that have got overhyped in the past couple of years. In fact it won’t be wrong to say that whenever a new technology has come up, the debate over its over-hyped or under hyped status has come to focus.

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Why every Business needs to do proper Application Maintenance?

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Why every Business needs to do proper Application Maintenance?

Nearly every business invests big in leading software applications. However, whether they are able to get success from them or not, solely depends on how well they manage these apps.

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6 ways to make your employees love you

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6 ways to make your employees love you

Before delving into how to become a likable boss – let’s first discuss does being liked by employees even matter? Most of us (who are bosses of course) do not give much effort in making ourselves liked by our team members.

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Your cloud provider running out of business – Are you prepared for it?

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Your cloud provider running out of business – Are you prepared for it?

There are no two ways about the fact that cloud computing is one of the greatest advances in IT. Despite of the fear and uncertainty that a few experts have expressed about it, the benefits offered by cloud are simply too large to ignore.

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Are your Enterprise Software Applications integrated or siloed?

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Are your Enterprise Software Applications integrated or siloed?

Every big brand name has the best of enterprise software applications implemented. But not many are able to realize optimum benefit out of the software investment.

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How safe is your cloud?

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How safe is your cloud?

Few months back, The Washington Post released a map illustrating the places where Hurricane Sandy caused Internet connection failure.

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Let your customers do the talking!

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Let your customers do the talking!

The present state of things (I mean the economic turmoil and cut-throat competition) has compelled organizations to put their marketing and customer techniques under the scanner.

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