
CRM Consolidation: Do We Really Still Need Ten Different Tools for Customer Management?
Over the years, many companies have built up a large number of tools around the customer: CRM, marketing automation, newsletters, service desk, BI. The result is duplicate data maintenance, many interfaces and inconsistent processes. This article shows which functions belong in the central CRM, where best-of-breed still makes sense and how consolidation can be implemented economically and in phases.
