In this week’s segment IT in Plain English, the question is “what criteria should I use in choosing a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system?
Examples I often see in Australia are vendors like Salesforce, iMIS, Razors Edge, Hubspot and Microsoft Dynamics.
There are a number of criteria you might use to choose a new system, but let’s just start with one which I think is pretty important and often overlooked for any software that is core to your operations. That one criterion is local country support.
If you live in North America, this isn’t usually an issue. However, if you live in another country like Australia, it really does reduce your options if you want to have help locally or at least in the same time zone. Otherwise, you’ll be making a lot of early morning calls.
So, there you have it in plain English.
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Tammy Ven Dange is a former charity CEO, Not for Profit Board Member and IT Executive. Today she helps NFPs with strategic IT decisions, especially around investments.