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CRM software (CRM stand for Customer Relationship Management), is a broad term that covers concepts used by organizations to manage their relationships with customers, including collecting, storing and analyzing customer information.

This provides support to “front office” business processes / teams, including sales, marketing and service. Each interaction with a customer is generally added to a customer’s contact history, and staff can retrieve and update information on customers from the database as necessary.

Data gathered on customers can be used to determine how a customer is handled. Data may include profitability, contact history and products purchased. Staff members are able to access this data when servicing customers or making a sales pitch.

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These will boost and small business out there because covers the direct interaction with customers. This can include a variety of channels, such as the Internet, whether through a website or e-mail, or automated telephone systems. It can generally be equated with “self service”. One of the latest trends in collaborative CRM is behavioral emarketing which is focused on building an ongoing relationship with customers through online mediums (emails, RSS Feeds, XML, Vlogs, Blogs, etc.).

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Microsoft credits consumers shift to the digital lifestyle with creating the fastest selling operating system in history.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million Windows Vista licenses in the first 100 days that the latest version of the operating system has been available, Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday.

Gates said an accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles had helped make the operating system the fastest selling in history, and that premium editions have accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales.

Windows operating systems run on more than 95 percent of the world’s computers and represent the Redmond, Washington-based company’s biggest profit driver.

Vista, which Microsoft introduced on Jan. 30, also marks the first major operating system upgrade in more than five years from the world’s biggest software maker.

During a speech in Los Angeles, Gates said the company named its next-generation Windows Server software — formerly known as “Longhorn” — Windows Server 2008.

Windows Server is the server operating system equivalent to the Vista PC operating system, with an emphasis on many of the same features, such as better security.

Microsoft (up $0.17 to $31.04, Charts, Fortune 500), which controlled an estimated two-thirds of the global server software maker in 2006, has said the product is on track for a debut in the second half of 2007.

The company also said three new hardware manufacturers — Gateway (down $0.05 to $1.78, Charts), Lacie (Charts) and Medion (Charts) — plan to build products for Windows Home Server.

That software is aimed at helping families with multiple PCs easily centralize, share and protect digital content, such as pictures, music, documents and videos.

So that means there are 40M people who aware of how buggy Windows Vista is?!