Newsletter
September 2007

Gartner predicts that hosted systems will dominate by 2010

In their latest report on the CRM industry, "Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation, 2007" the US firm of IT analyst Gartner Group predicts that "within three years the majority of new SFA (Sales Force Automation) deployments will be based on SaaS (Software as a Service)".

There are many advantages of web based CRM systems, but the main ones are:

Nothing to install, quick to set up
Easy access from multiple locations: multiple offices, home, on the road
No data replication or synchronisation problems
IT support (backup, maintenance, upgrades, hosting) outsourced to application provider
Pay as you use it, not all up front

Gartner goes on to say that "we see a focus on simplicity as a theme to improve adoption among salespeople", something that is very close to our hearts here at Really Simple Systems.

You can read the full report on the Gartner site.

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Press Coverage for Really Simple Systems

Really Simple Systems has received a lot of press coverage recently, including a case study of the Royal Academy's CRM implementation in Computing.

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More About Really Simple Systems

With over 500 users, Really Simple Systems is now the UK's leading online CRM system. Really Simple Systems offers straightforward, easy to use hosted CRM systems to companies of all sizes. To find out more about how simple CRM can be, please visit our home page.