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Cloud-based CRM

Cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems provide all types of organizations with powerful, flexible, and reliable CRM tools and resources. Cloud-based CRM tools are available to staff in the office and out in the field. Explore the latest news, analysis, and advice related to cloud-based CRM here.

Features

How to Advance Self-Service with the Latest Generative AI Bots

Customer self-service is better today, but it takes effort to use it successfully.

Analytics Move to the Hiring Process

Tools emerge to ensure incoming contact center agents have the right attributes.

The Best CRM Software, Solutions, and Innovators: The 2025 CRM Industry Awards

Our 24th annual awards recognize the vendors and innovators that shone the brightest in the past year.

The Best CRM Software and Solutions: The 2025 CRM Industry Leader Awards

Our top five picks in 11 categories point the way forward with the best products and capabilities hitting the market in customer service, marketing, and sales.

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The Rise of AI Twins: Why Agentic Automation Will Put the CR Back In CRM

AI will finally fulfill the 30-year-old promise that CRM is the enterprise connection to the customer.

The Connected Holiday: CRM Strategies for 2025

Craft a holistic holiday experience that meets shoppers where they are and nudges them forward at every step.

4 Ways Corporate Call Centers Are Using AI Today

Executives experiencing AI FOMO should take heed to the AI projects that are succeeding.

Agentic AI Is Revolutionizing How Companies Interact With Customers

Agentic AI is redefining customer experience by enabling autonomous, real-time, and personalized interactions at scale.

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If the Fast Lane Is Self-Service Bots, Then the Slow Lane Is Stewardship

Will customer support in which human agents take ownership of issues become a luxury good?

Quiet CX Upgrades You’re Skipping While Chasing AI Fireworks

There are simple fixes that are surprisingly effective.

AI ‘Exponentials’ Will Rule the World

Highly effective tiny teams will be nimbler than the legacy behemoths.

Pickles, Profit, and a World Where Opportunity Can Be Manufactured

Content needs its own supply chain.

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