Products

Salesforce.com has rolled out a service for its customers that allows them to share data, sources and leads in a social network. The service, which the company is not making available commercially, is a cross between a partner relationship management portal -- which Salesforce.com offers commerciall...

SAP rolled out a new version of its SAP CRM application -- its first major release in a year. Significant changes to the platform include a new user interface that allows business managers to make changes that previously would have required more extensive customization and new functionality in a num...

Oncontact Software released version 6.1 of its CRM application, which caters to the growing demand among users for software delivered through the Internet. For the first time, with this release the vendor is providing users with Web extensibility along with its traditional client server access. What...

It happens all the time: Customers with complaints pick up the phone to call centers about a service problem. However, what if the service provider can pinpoint network problems before they occur? That way, customer service reps can resolve issues before disgruntled callers reach for the phone. That...

RightNow is leveraging two of its competitive strengths -- self-service and knowledge management -- to deliver a syndication widget in its November 07 release. The feature allows companies to syndicate and then distribute content, such as pricing or warranty information, across several Web sites tha...

OpenSpan, a Microsoft partner, rolled out an application integration platform that allows users of Microsoft's Customer Care Framework 2008 -- which was also introduced Wednesday -- to link together older applications and custom-built systems with the front-end agent desktop. Built on the Microsoft ...

SAS added a new application to its lineup of customer service analytical offerings. SAS Real Time Decision Manager embeds analytically driven decision logic at every customer interaction. The Decision Manager tool was introduced during Gartner's CRM conference this week, along with an updated versio...

Genius.com has released Genius Team -- a new edition of SalesGenius, the marketing and sales application it debuted last year. The new team application automates many of the tasks in SalesGenius and provides a venue for greater administrative control, according to Felicity Wohltman, vice president o...

Oracle has released its latest semiannual upgrade of its Siebel CRM On Demand product. Unlike previous releases that focused on smaller changes and tweaks, Release 14 incorporates substantial improvements to its architecture and integration capabilities. In fact, it is the product's most significant...

NetSuite is the first of the Software as a Service vendors to introduce support for Apple's vaunted iPhone. Called "SuitePhone," it provides native support for Safari, the iPhone's browser, as well as NetSuite's own product line and its role-based dashboards. Using SuitePhone, users can remotely acc...

Oracle has released Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, an application that builds on its acquisition of Telephony@Work, an on-demand provider of IP-based software infrastructure for hosted contact center services, made exactly a year ago. Oracle Contact Center Anywhere 8.1, is a multimedia IP-based contac...

Oncontact Software has released a new version of its CRM suite that is fully interoperable with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. This is the first release in a two-part rollout: Oncontact will release an enhancement to its Web offering in August. Designed to be installed with little integ...

Ending weeks of speculation, Salesforce.com has unveiled an expanded partnership with Google that will start by combining the on-demand software firm's Web-based CRM product with Google AdWords. The two companies, which have been linked in rumors for weeks, launched the product Tuesday in 43 countri...

Oracle has taken what it deemed to be the best CRM features from Siebel 8 and PeopleSoft 9, as well as some of its own native functionality, and incorporated them into its latest E-Business Suite release, version 12. "There have been improvements made across all three applications," Mike Betzer, vic...

Interactive Intelligence has introduced a mobile offering that duplicates many of the IP telephony functions available to workers on their desktop phones. Interaction Client, Mobile Edition provides users with presence management; company directory look-up; Microsoft Outlook contact access; call con...