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Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Kubernetes Monitoring

Software Repositories

WebOps

Development

Academic Advising

Classroom Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

File Sharing

Workspace Planning

Enterprise

Accounting

Invoicing

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Background Check

Corporate Learning Management

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Business Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Cloud Storage

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

Configuration Management Databases

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Data Collaboration

Data Observability

Database Load Balancing

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Enterprise Architecture Management

Fraud Detection

IT Operations Analytics

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

MLOps

Network Monitoring

Network Performance Monitoring

Release Management

SOA Application Gateways

Secret Managers

Technology Scouting Software

Threat Intelligence

WiFi Hotspot

Workload Automation

Information Technology

A/B Testing

AI Writing Assistant Software

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Digital Asset Management

Digital Content Creation

Email Marketing

Landing Page

Marketing Automation

Online Proofing

Retail Media Advertising

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Swag Management

Video Collaboration

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Social Commerce

Sales

Video Surveillance

Security

Oil and Gas

Real Estate

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CRM software centralizes customer data to support every stage of the customer journey—from outreach to retention. These platforms help sales, marketing, and support teams manage contacts, automate workflows, and track interactions. Advanced CRMs include pipeline management, marketing automation, and analytics. Compare top CRM tools based on user reviews, features, and fit for your business needs.

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Sales Force Automation

This is the technique of using software to automate certain sales-related tasks.

Customer data management / contact management

The software acts as a single source for all customer data and enables users to access that data efficiently.

Workflow management

The software helps automate parts of the sales process, such as sending emails, updating contact records, and following approval processes.

Territory management

Users can defines salesperson territories based on customer or market characteristics.

Opportunity management

Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)

Users can perform tasks within their inbox, such as logging emails, creating contacts, and creating events.

Contract management

Users can manage contracts, with features such as digital signatures, automated alerts, invoicing, and automated workflow for contract review and approvals.

Quote & order management

Users can create, process and fulfill price quotations and sales transactions.

Interaction tracking

Users can log and track all customer interactions through any channel, including social, email, phone and in-person.

Channel / partner relationship management

The software allows for sales, territory, lead, order and account management for partners or OEM relationships.

Customer Service & Support

This component of CRM software automates help desk, call center and field service management.

Case management

This includes incident/ticket creation, routing, escalation, and resolution.

Call center management

This includes features such as call routing, recording and monitoring; call list management; autodialing; and scripting.

Help desk management

This includes trouble ticketing, knowledge base, self-service, and service level agreement (SLA) management.

This component of CRM software helps to automate and scale marketing tasks and the subsequent analysis of those efforts.

Lead management

This includes lead generation, scoring, qualification, routing, and nurturing.

Email marketing

This involves the ability to send mass email to groups of people based on particular qualifications.

CRM Project Management

This component of CRM software helps users initiate, plan, collaborate on, execute, track, and close projects.

Task management

This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

Billing and invoicing management

This includes automated invoice creation and billing.

Reporting

Software provides a broad range of standard and the ability to build custom reports.

CRM Reporting & Analytics

Reporting and analytics in CRM software includes sales forecasting, pipeline analysis, and automated dashboards.

Forecasting

The software helps users accurately forecast sales based on volume and conversion metrics.

Pipeline visualization

Users can visualize the entire sales pipeline to identify trends, determine the effectiveness of the sales funnel, and optimize.

Customizable reports

Users can create reports and dashboards unique to their needs.

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

Custom fields

Users can create custom fields to store additional information on standard and custom objects.

Custom objects

Users can create custom record types that allow them to store information unique to their organization, and link them to standard and other custom objects.

Scripting environment

Technical users can write, run, and test scripts that automate common tasks or business rules via a standard or vendor custom programming language.

API for custom integration

An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

Role-based user permissions

Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

Single sign-on capability

The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.

Social CRM

This component of CRM software helps companies leverage social media in engaging with customers.

Social data

The software can integrate data and conversation histories from customers’ social profiles. This may also involve enhanced listening features such as sentiment tracking.

Social engagement

The software can facilitate and track engagement with customers via social channels.

Integrations with 3rd-party Software

This involves the CRM software’s ability to integrate with other systems, whether external or homegrown.

Marketing automation

The software can integrate with marketing automation software such as Eloqua, Marketo or Pardot.

Compensation management

The software can integrate with compensation management software or sales commission software such as Xactly Incent or IBM’s Varicent.

Platform

Mobile access

Users can access the CRM system via mobile or tablet device, and potentially leverage the unique capabilities of mobile devices, such as GPS and voice.

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