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Trying to master customer relationship management (CRM) suites these days is somewhat akin to attempting to eat not-quite-solid Jell-O with a fork. In trying to do everything, some CRM packages wind up doing nothing. ZDNet evaluates three CRM vendors.
National Australia Bank this morning said it was in discussions to buy the local arm of Dutch investment bank ABN AMRO, in a move that could enlarge NAB's IT support operation, already one of the largest in Australia.
The Challenger Financial Group is replacing its core financial management software in a move bound to raise eyebrows in finance industry circles.
We have all heard the phrase "IT needs to align with the business" but what does it actually mean, and how are businesses achieving it?
As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? ZDNet Australia investigates.
One of the great challenges of implementing customer relationship management is getting CRM to work together with your existing systems. What is the best approach for connecting CRM?
Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?
After the initial hype following its introduction, has the computing world lost its addiction to Java? Not on your life.
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