Customer Relationship Management

Operational CRM

Operational CRM provides support to "front office" business processes, e.g. to sales, marketing, and service staff. Interactions with customers are generally stored in customers' contact histories, and staff can retrieve customer information as necessary.

The contact history provides staff members with immediate access to important information on the customer (products owned, prior support calls etc.), eliminating the need to individually obtain this information directly from the customer. Consequently, many call centers use some form of CRM software.

Operational CRM processes customer data for a variety of purposes:

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