The advent of cloud-based CRM applications has eliminated the significant initial budgetary barriers to entry for many businesses, and the proliferation of products geared toward smaller businesses has presented small business with options that allow them to choose based on specific features. Learn more about how CRM can help your small business. 

Enterprise resource leader, SAP founded in 1972, is facing the slow death of traditional on-premise ERP. Customers with shrinking IT budgets are opting to outsource more of their core business systems. 

This paper details 6 examples of leading global companies' HR departments that are at the forefront of workforce management strategies. Read this and learn how Four Seasons enables its employees to assist guests anytime, anywhere, or how Zappos.com aligns its organization around the company's 10 core values to offer exceptional customer service. 

How to have a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

The following analysis provides a comparative price analysis of four leading CRM solutions for midmarketorganizations. Forrester Research defines midmarket organizations as any organization with revenues of lessthan $1 billion and/or fewer than 1,000 employees. 

The most effective sales are face-to-face sales, yet sales representative only spend 26% of their time selling face-to-face. The rest of their time is taken up with administrative tasks, prep and travel. Learn how Sybase Mobile Solutions for SAP can increase sales productivity and bring the advantages of business mobility to your organization. 

This white paper discusses the ways in which organizations are striving to maintain excellent customer service for all types of clients while at the same time controlling support costs. Read this white paper to learn more. 

By exploiting the disruptive forces and trends discussed in this resource, you will be able to transform the customer experience, improve the customer’s sentiment about your organization, and turn customers into advocates. 

This paper outlines some of the best methods for deploying social intelligence to support your CRM strategies. Read this and learn how the right social intelligence can help you win new customers, retain existing customers, reduce the cost of customer management and more. Also, discover specific use cases of social intelligence. 

This expert e-guide discusses mobile sales strategies and sales performance management software and provides best practices in both areas. 

Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why. 

This IDC case study featuring Comcast explores the challenges the rapidly growing company faced, as well as the HR solutions which met and exceeded their needs.