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Chordiant Software

www.chordiant.com
Chordiant Software, Inc. is an enterprise software provider of CRM software solutions that automate operational business processes to meet the needs of service-driven organizations in Retail Banking, Card Services, Lending, Insurance and Telecommunications. Chordiant automates the end-to-end operational business processes that enable the business from the initial communications with customers through to the back-office systems. Allowing companies to leverage their existing infrastructure and customer relationships.

Chordiant focuses on the automation of operational business processes. Their software is designed to address employee productivity, operating costs of end-to-end processing and work management and customer effectiveness. The Chordiant product line is designed to help improve the operational effectiveness and customer results via process-driven applications. All of this is designed to reduce the risk of deployment and increase the return on existing systems and assets and lowering TCO (total cost of ownership).

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Chordiant Marketing

According to Chordian, Chordiant Marketing software provides universal data access to assist marketers in building their operational marketing and analytical marketing databases. This means existing data sources can be consolidated without the need for a proprietary data-mart, marketers can quickly add new data to their database (e.g. upload a suppression list from Excel) without relying on support from IT.

Chordiant Decision Management

The solution enables those relationship management strategies to be quickly deployed in every customer-facing channel, ensuring that the right proposition, message and terms are communicated to the right customer reflecting your strategy and your customers likely behavior. For each customer, a suitable strategy has to be determined and implemented, steering a course for success using our Fly By Wire methodology. For each customer contact, there is a decision to be made in the light of four important dimensions: whether the customer will respond or buy, defect to a competitor, cause a loss to the company, or recommend the company to others. We refer to these dimensions as The Four Rs: Recruitment, Retention, Risk and Recommendation.

Chordiant Contact Center

The applications automate the operational business processes by integrating and managing the necessary data, applications, processes and systems. Appropriate servicing screens support the opening conversation with server-based CTI and back-end integration to core systems. Automated processes are delivered to the agent in a role-based, unified desktop. The necessary scripts, tasks, relevant product offers and other information guides the agent through the process required to complete customer servicing, make relevant offers and enable fulfillment. Intelligent, real-time offers and recommendations are provided through the capabilities of Chordiant Decision Management, to increase customer recruitment, improve retention strategies, increase up-sell and cross-sell success and reduce business risk during any customer interaction.

This unique approach significantly improves the productivity of customer representatives, lower training and processing costs by decreasing the time to competence, often from weeks to days. The solution also provides a lower cost of operation with a zero-footprint, browser-based agent interface and integrates to existing IT assets to reduce your total cost of ownership.

Chordiant Retail Channel

The Chordiant Retail Channel Solution can help transform branches, agent networks and retail outlets into customer-focused, value-added service centers. Agents, brokers, financial advisors, and customer service representatives are able to provide not only higher and more consistent levels of service, but also be more productive through the ability to receive and manage leads, provide product advisory, make appropriate offers, and undertake fulfillment.

Chordiant Enterprise Platform

The Chordiant Enterprise Platform is the core work management system that drives company specific process-centric applications for automating all service and operational processes in the retail channel, agent offices, contact center, self-service channel and back-office operations. The solution provides for the rapid deployment of process-driven business applications that automate and streamline the end-to-end process from the communications channels with customers to core back office transactional systems.

By automating, optimizing and managing the end-to-end processing of work (servicing tasks and new business requests that originate in the branch, agent offices, contact center, or over the web), organizations are able to reduce operational costs typically by 20-30%, and reduce the time to complete work by 30-40% with reduced errors and handoffs.

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ProTrak International Announces New CRM Release - Emediawire (press release)

01-11-2007

New York, NY (PRWeb) January 11, 2007 -- ProTrak International announced the release of ProTrak Advantage CRM 4.5. Scheduled for release in early 2007, version 4.5 includes new features that greatly enhance the user's experience and overall functionality of ProTrak's out-of-the-box CRM solution for investment managers, funds-of-hedge funds, hedge funds and private equity firms. As usual, many of the new features are derived from suggestions of ProTrak's growing global user community. A major emphasis of ProTrak's development effort is the provision of additional "tools" that give users more control over their ProTrak desktop without requiring IT support. A few of the new enhancements included in version 4.5 are: • New user customization options that allow users to set different background colors for the main profile windows and each data "pane" for better readability, to hide or view individual columns in each data pane and to select different "themes" for the main profile screens. • Users may now attach Crystal reports, Excel reports and/or other external reports directly to the ProTrak main menu for instant one-click execution. • ProTrak administrators may now specify default values and/or calculated values for individual data fields. • In addition to ProTrak's comprehensive security controls, security - more available

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Savaria Concord Implements Soffront CRM To Improve Sales, Lead ... - Emediawire (press release)

01-11-2007

Fremont, CA (PRWeb) January 11, 2007 -- Soffront® Software Inc., www.soffront.com, the leader of mid-market CRM software, today announced that Savaria Concord Lifts Inc., has implemented Soffront CRM as an on-demand application to automate sales and lead distribution to partners. Savaria Concord Lifts, one of North America's leading accessibility companies, provides home elevators, wheelchair lifts and stair chairs that facilitate mobility of people with special needs. Prior to Soffront, leads were manually downloaded from automatically generated .txt files into Microsoft Access and then distributed to the appropriate dealers. This process was highly inefficient and not feasible once the size of the company expanded. We needed a more efficient way to automatically manage leads from multiple web sites. "Savaria Corporation acquired Concord Elevator, Inc. in 2005, thereby doubling our business volume and the amount of leads we receive," explained Ian Clark, marketing manager, Savaria Concord Lift. "Prior to Soffront, leads were manually downloaded from automatically generated .txt files into Microsoft Access and then distributed to the appropriate dealers. This process was highly inefficient and not feasible once the size of the company expanded. We needed a more efficient way to automatically manage leads from multiple web sites." According to Clark, they - more available

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Microsoft widens partner access to next CRM release - Computerworld Malaysia

01-11-2007

Microsoft is giving some of its partners early access to the next major release of its CRM software, code-named “Titan”.By China MartensIDG News Service (Boston Bureau)Updated: Jan 11, 2007 04:24 PMMicrosoft Corp. is previewing the next major version of its Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management) software, code-named "Titan," with a growing number of its partners in the run-up to the mid-2007 product release. Microsoft announced the move Wednesday. "We said last summer that Titan will be out in summer 2007 and it will," said Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Titan, which will probably be officially known as Dynamics CRM 4.0 will be the first Microsoft CRM release based on a multitenant architecture and using a single code base to support three types of usage – on-premise, hosted by partners or Microsoft. The Microsoft-hosted offering will be called Dynamics Live CRM, the third member of the vendor's growing Live software-as-a-service (SAAS) product family, joining Windows Live and Office Live. Multitenancy is the ability of a SAAS vendor to host multiple customers' applications on a single server instead of dedicating servers to individual customers. Since multitenancy requires fewer servers, it's a cheaper way for vendors to run their hosting - more available

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