As social networking sites explode in popularity, the hype and interest continue to build. But sorting the fact from the hype can be a challenge. This paper discusses tangible ways that organizations can extract measurable business value from social networking by leveraging it in conjunction with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. 

There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession. 

The main focus of this white paper is about revealing key factors in sales rep productivity, including what helps improve their efficiency (increasing selling time) and effectiveness (getting better results from the available selling time). Both are important and require strong leadership and teamwork between the sales and IT departments. 

Learn how you can how you can hook customers with fresh, unusual and relevant shopping experiences. Drive customer loyalty by training, empowering and providing employees with the technical tools to capture the nuances of customer behavior. 

This knowledge paper examines and explores the rapid rise of the mobile consumer, and provides strategies for integrating mobile customer service into the multi-channel service strategy. The paper details how your mobile customer service solution must be channel-specific to mobile, and deliver upon the need for efficiency, accuracy and simplicity. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Selling in today's economy is tough. And simply doing more of the same is not the way to survive, much less thrive, in today's economy. There are important dos and don'ts in times like these. This eBook is your industry-specific roadmap out of the economic slump. 

Join Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology evangelist Phillip Haase in this webcast to learn about the Microsoft strategy and investments in enterprise CRM solutions and to understand how these solutions address the requirements for users, management, and IT. 

In this three-minute video, two Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online customers discuss how this new software service is not only helping them be more effective in their sales and marketing groups, but is also being adapted and customized to offer solutions well beyond what CRM is typically used for. 

The SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application maximizes the value from each customer by keeping profitable customers loyal, decreasing service costs by increasing efficiency, and increasing service revenue. 

View this webcast to learn how the federated model can help business units operate customized CRM systems while synchronizing to a central application. We explore how the server stores enterprise-pertinent information from all CRM systems, thus supporting executives responsible for achieving overall sales goals. 

Facing rapid growth, U.S. Dynamics Field Sales needed a sales force automation tool that would map to the team's unique solution-selling process and drive adoption among sales staff. Working with Microsoft® IT, U.S. Dynamics Field Sales deployed Microsoft Dynamics® CRM and integrated it with its legacy CRM system, providing the team with...