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		<title>GoldMine Data Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contact Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an overview of CRM Switch&#8217;s GoldMine Data Analysis.  Whether an organization is staying with GoldMine, or switching to a new CRM system, this analysis will provide an array of useful insights into the current state of GoldMine data.  The analysis can be used to obtain greater benefit from GoldMine, or for implementing strategies around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GoldMine Lookups vs. Salesforce Lookups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a legacy contact manager such as GoldMine®, referencing another contact from within a contact record can sometimes require a very large (and ever expanding) pick list.

In this example, the business use is that contacts are members of a medical plan or HMO.  There is a need to select each member&#8217;s Primary Care Physician.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating CRM Data Isn’t Always as Easy as Point and Click</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/data-migration/data-migration-not-easy-point-click/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Migration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Data migration software vendors sometimes portray their CRM migration software as a simple, point and click, drag and drop solution.

While a packaged software approach may be fairly smooth for more straightforward cases of CRM data and database structure, the reality is that many data migration situations have complexities that make them difficult to manage using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synchronizing CRM vs. Direct Browser Access</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-access/crm-synch-vs-crm-web-access/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-access/crm-synch-vs-crm-web-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CRM Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contact managers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Synchronization]]></category>

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A Brief History of CRM Data Synching
The need for remote users to regularly sync their contact manager or CRM data from a locally installed database back to a central database dates back to a time when the Internet was far less ubiquitous than it is today and a time when Web technologies and interfaces were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contact-Centric Contact Managers vs. Account-Centric CRM</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/contact-centric-vs-account-centric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/contact-centric-vs-account-centric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 14:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contact Management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Legacy contact managers, by definition, are contact-centric in their design.  Each contact is a separate record and does not contain a unifying, company ID.  While a contact-centric structure is well suited for B2C sales and service, it can create some limitations in a B2B selling or service environment.
In a B2B selling environment, users often need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flat Contact Manager Fields vs. Related CRM Objects</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/flat-contact-manager-fields-vs-relational-crm-structure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/flat-contact-manager-fields-vs-relational-crm-structure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[relational]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Relational Data in a Flat File Database
Certain legacy contact managers do not allow for the creation of custom tables (objects).  As a workaround, when there are multiple occurrences of the same type of data, a series of flat fields are created.  For example, a set of Properties that relate to a Contact might be tracked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Switch to a New CRM?</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/why-change-new-crm-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new crm]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s business environment is more of a moving target than ever.  Employees are demanding increasingly more from the business productivity tools that they use in order to be more efficient, to keep up sales levels in a competitive environment and to do a better job of retaining existing customers.  As such, many business managers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRM Data Migration Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/data-migration/strategy-data-migration-crm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crmswitch.com/data-migration/strategy-data-migration-crm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad data]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations, your company has decided to make the switch to a new CRM application.  Now comes the work effort &#8212; determining how best to configure the application to your company&#8217;s needs and migrating legacy data into the new CRM system.  There are two general approaches to data migration.
CRM Data Migration Approaches
Option #1
Migrate all existing data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Migration and CRM Requirements Definition</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/data-migration/data-migration-crm-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crmswitch.com/data-migration/data-migration-crm-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crm requirements]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Legacy data can sometimes be very messy.  Spending the time to analyze legacy data allows companies to understand the results of a wide variety of users having logged customer interactions within a legacy CRM system over the course of many years.

A CRM requirements analysis should always include a review of legacy data sources.  This analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SageCRM Switch and Save Program</title>
		<link>http://www.crmswitch.com/promotions/sage-crm-switch-save-promo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crmswitch.com/promotions/sage-crm-switch-save-promo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Waters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discount]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[switch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sage is currently offering an aggressive incentive to companies that are using any one of a number of defined, competitive products. This promotion is effective through March 31, 2010.

Companies that switch to Sage CRM from one of the products listed below will receive a substantial discount for all SageCRM user licenses that match the existing [...]]]></description>
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