|
The
primary goal of CRM is to improve long-term growth and profitability
through a better understanding of customer behavior. CRM aims to provide
more effective feedback and improved integration.
The generally accepted
purpose of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is to enable
organizations to better serve their customers through the introduction
of reliable processes and procedures for interacting with those
customers.
The term CRM is
used to describe either the software or the whole business strategy (or
lack of one) oriented on customer needs.
There are three
parts of application architecture of CRM:
a) Operational
- Automation to the basic business processes (marketing, sales, service)
b) Analytical
- Support to analyze customer behavior, implements business intelligence
alike technology
c) Co-operational
- Ensures the contact with customers (phone, email, fax, web...)
A CRM solution is
characterized by the following functionality:
-
Scalability
- the ability to be used on a large scale, and to be reliably expanded
to whatever scale is necessary.
-
Multiple
communication channels
- the ability to interface with users via many different devices
(phone, WAP, internet, etc)
-
Workflow
- the ability to automatically route work through the system to
different people based on a set of rules.
-
Database
- the centralized storage (in a data warehouse) of all information
relevant to customer interaction
-
Customer privacy
considerations,
e.g. data encryption and the destruction of records to ensure that
they are not stolen or abuse
Please feel free to contact us to develop
your own customized CRM Systems
|