On-demand CRM allows  to focus on customers and not on the technology while relieving from the risk and overhead of an onpremise approach. But is on-demand really this attractive? What’s the catch? As always, the devil is in the details – what constitutes an advantage can also pose a threat.

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Operators do what they can to secure themselves from revenue and customer leakages, but they still make simple errors. “Let’s manage our customers, so they wouldn’t want to leave us and would want to buy more from us – let’s buy a CRM system” this is an idea most of them already brought to life long ago. The idea that a CRM system alone is not enough to manage customer relationships well, we have known for a couple of years.

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In accordance with a company’s marketing strategy, an operator should be able to flexibly define tariffs and spe­cific rewards of the loyalty  program. Tariff definition is performed within the context of dedicated applications and modification does not involve the intervention of com­puter programmers. At the same time, the construction of complicated tariffs may require the diversification of tariff definitions within the billing and loyalty systems. While such a scenario can optimize the billing of tariffs and mini­mize the data sent through the internet, it requires the inte­gration of both systems.

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