The Great Debate: Best-of-Breed versus Multi-Function CRM Suites

An interview by Carol Parenzan Smalley, Managing Editor, CRMGuru

Which CRM solution to buy? One that touts itself as best-of-breed (specific application such as sales or marketing) or one claiming to do it all? Ask any two people and you are sure to get three different answers. To begin our discussion among colleagues, let me introduce two leaders from both sides of the issue. After you read their words, be sure to share a few of your own.

What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like Its Never Going To Work

Here’s a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms, only around 20% of all IT projects are finished in a timely manner. By “timely” the researchers mean without loss of quality or being over budget. They go on to say the average project runs approximately 200 percent late, roughly 200 percent over budget, and contains only 2/3 of the original functionality.

Love Your Way to Success

One of the most important things I learned back in business school was that promotions often don`t depend on one`s job skills, but on interpersonal skills. It was impressed upon us that an employee could have the best skills in the department, but if he/she could not get work done through people, cooperate with people, then that employee could be going nowhere fast, in spite of wonderful skills.

How To Screen Your Visitors When Using Pay Per Click Advertising

If you are using pay per click advertising, I don’t need to tell you that it can get very expensive if you have a lot of unnecessary click throughs. In this article I will explain how to screen your visitors and how to apply it to your pay per click advertising campaign, so that you can screen your visitors before they click through.

Comparing database structures in MSSQL server

Many firms, developing client-server applications, have a lot of the databases, from developers DB to testers DB. Keeping DB in actual state can be automated easily only if there is centralized access to all of them and there are no developments on any of them. The last influences a lot of the DB structure because there is a possibility to break it while developing.

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