CRM software: Microsoft Dynamics CRM for marketing

Plan more proactively. Transform customer information into clear, actionable knowledge that enables your company to respond quickly to changing customer preferences and emerging market opportunities.

Create a clear customer view. Provide your marketing organization with instant access to complete customer information.

Understand what customers tell you. Reporting and analysis tools built on Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services give you the precise customer knowledge you need to make sound decisions quickly.

Manage work more easily. Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivers CRM functionality as a natural extension of Microsoft Outlook. Manage customer e-mail, appointments, tasks, and contacts from a single business application.

Execute smarter campaigns. Use intelligent list and segmentation tools to reach prospective customers quickly and effectively, and transform successful campaigns into templates that can easily be reused in the future.

Get real-time visibility. Comprehensive reporting and analysis tools help you track response rates, measure interest levels, and monitor costs for every campaign and activity in real-time.

Build deeper customer relationships. Use a closed-loop view of each customer’s preferences, relationships, and buying history to anticipate their future needs.

Launch campaigns quickly. Transform successful campaigns into templates that make it easy to quickly launch future campaigns.

List creation. Automatically create lists based on accounts, contacts, or leads. Generate new lists through individual lookups, or use Advanced Find to identify potential customers based on a wide range of user-specified criteria.

List import. Easily import information on contacts and leads. Integrate leads from sources such as databases, text files, and Microsoft Excel.

List maintenance. Quickly add or remove members from lists. Define dynamic lists where the membership changes in real time or static lists with fixed membership groups.

Plan campaigns. Use predefined system templates, save campaigns as templates to re-use for future campaigns, or create new campaigns from scratch. Define tasks, activities, and marketing materials for the entire campaign life cycle, create budgets, and define follow up activities for respondents and non-respondents.

Execute campaigns. Schedule campaign activities to be performed immediately or at specific times in the future.

Track responses. Drive closed-loop campaign execution by tracking responses to every campaign activity.

Monitor results. Generate detailed real-time performance reports that track key performance factors including ROI, response rates, and cost per response.

Create a list. Use an existing list or identify high-potential prospects using Advanced Find against contacts, accounts, or leads.

Define an activity. Choose a specific activity for a Quick Campaign, such as e-mail, phone calls, faxes, or meetings, and assign to appropriate people.

Choose a timeline. Define start and completion dates for all Quick Campaign tasks.

Track responses and monitor results: Get detailed Quick Campaign performance reports in real time.

Improve lead handling. Easily distinguish new prospects from existing customers and promote qualified leads to new opportunities with a single click.

Automatically route leads. Deliver the right lead to the right person based on product, territory, dollar amount, or any other workflow rules that you define.

Identify sales trends. Introduce new products and services efficiently, and improve up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.

Forecast future sales performance. Allocate marketing resources based on a clearer understanding of trends and opportunities.

Build customer loyalty. Take advantage of service knowledge to proactively suggest replacements or renewals, or even to reward frequent customers.