A. 求英语翻译。。。。市场营销是一门应用非常广泛的学科，尤其是在商业...
Marketing is an applied science which widely used in commercial areas. In the learning process, I've a deeper understanding of how to make the proper decision based on the movement of markets. And it also laid the basis for my in-depth study of tourism management.
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B. 华为和苹果的营销策略对比
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产品上 苹果的系统、流畅度、使用年限等 有一定优势回 而华为产品种类多答 涵盖高中低端各个消费层次的需求
价格上 苹果价格比华为高端机略高 但差别在逐渐减少 但华为掉价比苹果快
渠道的话 差不太多
C. 营销中的4P和4S各代表什么,谢谢
4P：产品（Proct）；价格（Price）；地点（Place）;促销（Promotion）4P营销组合是从卖方的观点，对销售进行的分析；
产品的组合（Proct）,主要包括产品的实体、服务、品牌、包装。是企业提供给目标市场的货物、服务的集合,如我们澳际公司，作为留学为主营业务的教育集团，资源是分布在全世界的国外院校，目前与上千所院校建立起长期、稳定的合作关系。公司所提供的服务就是专业、高效的留学咨询服务工作，当然服务还有很多延伸服务工作，如海外服务、安排移民的工作。我公司非常注重公司的品牌和包装，因为服务公司很大程度上是要建立品牌，才能够吸引更多的消费者。每年公司在品牌宣传和包装工作，投入大量的广告费用。
定价的组合（Price）,主要包括基本价格、折扣价格、付款时间。从企业营销分析，可以从企业的购买原材料的成本价格、销售产品的买出价格、竞争对手的市场价格分析。作为我公司的原材料的成本价格，就是广告宣传费用、活动公关费用等等，销售产品的买出价格就是我们所收取的“留学服务费用”，竞争对手的服务费平均价格就是市场价格；
地点（Place）通常称为分销的组合,它主要包括分销渠道、储存设施、运输设施、存货控制,它代表企业为使其产品进入和达到目标市场所组织,实施的各种活动,包括途径、环节、场所、仓储和运输等。我们作为留学公司，不存在以上很复杂货物管管理流程。但目前在国内已经建立的6个办事处，人员往来的也是一个很大的成本。
促销组合（Promotion）是企业利用各种信息载体与目标市场进行沟通的传播活动,包括广告、人员推销、营业推广与公共关系等等。这向工作，使我们一直在进行中，我公司每年春天和秋天，组织世界上百所大学在我公司，进行“留学教育展”，这就需要前期的大量广告宣传，咨询人员的工作咨询等很多促销组合工作。
以上4P(产品、价格、地点、促销)是市场营销过程中可以控制的因素,也是企业进行市场营销活动的主要手段,对它们的具体运用,形成了企业的市场营销战略。但现代营销活动，已经不能局限在4P营销的模式，需要推出4S运营模式。
4S 分别是: 满意( satisfaction) , 服务（service）, 速度( speed) , 诚意( sincerity) 。
4S 的行销战略强调从消费者需求出发, 打破企业传统的市场占有率推销模式, 建立起一种全新的“消费者占有”的行销导向。要求企业对产品、服务、品牌不断进行定期定量以及综合性消费者满意指数和消费者满意级度的测评与改进, 以服务品质最优化, 使消费者满意度最大化, 进而达到消费者忠诚的“指名度”, 同时强化了企业的抵御市场风险,经营管理创新和持续稳定增效的“三大能力”。
4S 的行销战略意义是:
1. 满意( satisfaction) 。指顾客满意强调企业以顾客需求为导向, 以顾客满意为中心, 企业要站在顾客立场上考虑和解决问题, 要把顾客的需要和满意放在一切考虑因素之首,要以他人利益为重的真诚, 古人云: “感人心者, 莫先乎情”。要想赢得顾客的人, 必先投之以情, 用真情服务感化顾客, 以有情服务赢得无情的竞争。
2. 服务( service) 。指随时以笑脸相迎客人, 因为微笑是诚意最好的象征, 服务包括以下几个内容:
E—即精通业务上的工作, 企业营销人员, 为顾客提供更多的商品信息, 经常与顾客联络, 询问他们是否需要次日送货或更紧急的要求, 此举会使顾客感谢你的提醒所带来的便利; R—即对顾客态度亲切友善, 实行“温馨人情”的用户管理策略, 用体贴入微的服务来感动用户; V—将每位顾客都视为特殊和重要的人物, 顾客是我们的主人, 不是我们的佣人, 顾客是上帝, 我们只有与之友好相处, 才能生存发展; I —即要邀请每一位顾客下次再度光临, 企业要以最好的服务、优质的产品、适中的价格来吸引顾客多次光临;C—要为顾客营造一个温馨的服务环境, 要求企业文化建设加大力度, 从厂容厂貌以及大型商场的环境氛围更要建成现代化的超一流的环保市场, 舒适、温馨、超时代水平; E—行销人员用眼神表达对顾客的关心, 用眼睛去观察, 用头脑去分析, 真正做到对顾客体贴入微关怀的服务。
3. 速度( speed) , 指不让顾客久等, 而能迅速的接待、办理。
4. 诚意( sincerity) , 指以具体化的微笑与速度行动来服务客人。
D. 寻找英语翻译高手！请问哪个英语高手可帮忙翻译下这篇文章呢关于市场营销方面的，谢绝GOOGLE翻译，谢谢
殇K才是真正的翻译者，一楼那个数字名字是修改时间的，我鄙视你。
E. 市场营销英文文献翻译成中文3000字
一、服务营销。
现代经济发展的一个显著特征是服务业的蓬勃发展，其在国民经济中的地位愈来愈重要，服务营销的重要性日益突出，中国已经加入WTO ,外资企业纷纷抢滩中国，中外服务市场营销大战将出现白热化的态势。现实经济生活中的服务可以区分为两大类。一种是服务产品，产品为顾客创造和提供的核心利益主要来自无形的服务。另一种是功能服务，产品的核心利益主要来自形成的成分，无形的服务只是满足顾客的非主要需求。贝瑞认为，在产品的核心利益来源中，有形的成分比无形的成分要多，那么这个产品就可以看作是一种“商品”（有形产品） ;如果无形的成分比有形的成分要多，那么这个产品就可以看作是一种“服务”。与服务的这种区分相一致，服务营销的研究形成了两大领域，即服务产品的营销和顾客服务营销。服务产品营销的本质是研究如何促进作为产品的服务的交换；顾客服务营销的本质则是研究如何利用服务作为一种营销工具促进有形产品的交换。但是，无论是服务产品营销，还是顾客服务营销，服务营销的核心理念都是顾客满意和顾客忠诚，通过取得顾客的满意和忠诚来促进相互有利的交换，最终实现营销绩效的改进和企业的长期成长。
First, services marketing.
Modern economic development is characterized by a significant service instry booming national economy, the status of its growing importance of services marketing highlights the growing importance of China has joined WTO, foreign companies have to seize the Chinese, and foreign services, marketing war will appear white-hot trend. Economic life of service can be divided into two categories. One is service procts, proct creation and delivery for customers mainly from the core interests of intangible services. The other is the function of services, procts, mainly from the formation of the core interests of the ingredients, invisible only to meet customer service needs of non-major. Berry think that the source of the proct's core interests, the tangible and intangible elements of composition to be more than that, then the proct can be seen as a "commodity" (tangible procts); if intangible components of tangible elements to more than that, then the proct can be seen as a "service." And services consistent with this distinction, service marketing research formed the two major areas, namely services, procts, marketing and customer service marketing. Service is the essence of proct marketing, how to promote the exchange of proct services; customer service is of the essence of marketing, how to use the services as a marketing tool to promote the exchange of tangible procts. However, both services proct marketing, or customer service, marketing, service marketing is the core concept of customer satisfaction and loyalty, and by obtaining customer satisfaction and loyalty to the promotion of mutually beneficial exchange, and ultimately sales performance improvement and long-term business growth.
二、网络营销。
互联网络是一种利用通讯线路，将全球电脑纳入国际联网的信息传送系统必将是未来市场营销最重要的渠道。网络营销的特性包括；可24 小时随时随地地提供全球性营销服务；电脑可储存大量的信息，代消费者查询，可传送的信息数量与精确度，远超过其他媒体；能因应市场需求，及时更新产品或调整价格；减少印刷与邮递成本；且无店面租金，节约水电与人工成本；可避免推销员强势推销的干扰；可经由信息提供与互动交谈，与消费者建立长期良好的关系。互联网络是一种功能最强大的营销工具，它同时兼具渠道、促销、电子交易、互动顾客服务以及市场信息分析与提供的多种功能。
它以声光互动沟通的特质，作为跨越时空的媒体，已深深吸引年青一代人的眼光。此外，它所具备的一对一营销能力，正是符合[ 分众营销]与[ 直效营销]的未来趋势。 网络营销可视为一种新兴的营销渠道，它并非一定要取代传统的渠道，而是经由信息科技发展，来创新与重组营销渠道。但不可否认的是，网络营销必然会给传统营销造成冲击，因此商业界必须要注意这种趋势，并与软件产业作密切的联系与合作。以广告业为例，在最新媒体时代，销售是从开始到完成的一贯作业，就是说由吸引注意、引发兴趣、造成购买欲、进行采购，一气而成，而广告公司将参与营销的全程。商业企业也有必要改变传统的组织形态，提升新媒体部门的功能，引进兼具营销素养与电脑科技的人才，未来才能具备市场的竞争优势。
Second, network marketing.
Use of the Internet is a communication line, into the international network of global computer information delivery system will be the next most important channel for marketing. Internet Marketing features include; can provide anytime, anywhere 24 hours of global marketing services; computer can store large amounts of information, on behalf of consumer inquiries, the amount of information transmitted and accuracy, far more than other media; to meet market demands in a timely manner Update proct or price adjustments; rece printing and mailing costs; and no store rent, saving water and labor costs; can avoid the interference of a salesman selling strong; can talk through the provision of information and interaction with consumers long-term good relations. Internet is the most powerful marketing tool, it also combines Qu, marketing, electronic transactions, interactive customer service and market information analysis and delivery of a variety of functions.
It features sound and light interactive communication, as of time, the media, who have been attracted to the eyes of the younger generation. In addition, it has a one to one marketing capabilities, it is consistent with [Focus marketing] and [direct marketing] future trend.
Internet marketing can be considered as an emerging marketing channels, it is not necessarily to replace the traditional channels, but through the development of information technology to innovation and re-marketing channels. But it is undeniable that online marketing is bound to impact traditional marketing, so the business community must pay attention to this trend, and with the software instry for close contact and cooperation. Advertising instry as an example, in the latest media age, sales are consistent from start to finish operation, that is attracting attention from the triggered interest, resulting in purchases, procurement, these cities become, and advertising companies will participate in the marketing of the whole. Commercial enterprises also need to change the traditional organizational forms, to enhance the functions of the new media sector, the introction of both quality and marketing personnel in computer technology, the future can have the market's competitive advantage.
三、绿色营销。
所谓“绿色营销”，是指社会和企业在充分意识到消费者日益提高的环保意识和由此产生的对清洁型无公害产品需要的基础上，发现、创造并选择市场机会，通过一系列理性化的营销手段来满足消费者以及社会生态环境发展的需要，实现可持续发展的过程。绿色营销的核心是按照环保与生态原则来选择和确定营销组合的策略，是建立在绿色技术、绿色市场和绿色经济基础上的、对人类的生态关注给予回应的一种经营方式。目前，西方发达国家对于绿色产品的需求非常广泛，而发展中国家由于资金和消费导向上和消费质量等原因，还无法真正实现对所有消费需求的绿化。以我国为例，目前只能对部分食品、家电产品、通讯产品等进行部分绿化；而发达国家已经通过各种途径和手段，包括立法等，来推行和实现全部产品的绿色消费。从而培养了极为广泛的市场需求基础，为绿色营销活动的开展打下了坚实的根基。以绿色食品为例，英国、德国绿色食品的需求完全不能自给，英国每年要进口该食品消费总量的80% ,德国则高达98%。这表明，绿色产品的市场潜力非常巨大，市场需求非常广泛。
绿色营销只是适应二十一世纪的消费需求而产生的一种新型营销理念，也就是说，绿色营销还不可能脱离原有的营销理论基础。因此，绿色营销模式的制定和方案的选择及相关资源的整合还无法也不能脱离原有的营销理论基础，可以说绿色营销是在人们追求健康、安全、环保的意识形态下所发展起来的新的营销方式和方法。现代企业只有树立起一种全新的可持续发展营销的经营理念，努力开展绿色营销，开发绿色产品，进行绿色生产，才能和可持续发展潮流相适应。同时，企业还可进一步“导向消费者”，促成可持续消费模式的全面建立和实现，承担起促进社会发展和生态环境发展的责任和义务，使企业的经济效益、社会效益和环境效益相统一。
Third, green marketing.
The so-called "green marketing" refers to the social and enterprises are fully aware of the increasing environmental awareness of consumers and the resulting need for clean-based pollution-free procts based on the discovery, creation and select market opportunities, through a series of rational means of marketing to meet consumer and community development needs of the ecological environment and realize sustainable development process. Green Marketing is the core ecological principles in accordance with environmental protection and to select and determine the marketing mix strategy is based on green technology, green markets and green based on economic, ecological concerns for the human response to a mode of operation. Some developed countries the demand for green procts is very extensive, but developing countries as capital and consumer orientation, quality and consumer reasons, it can not really achieve the greening of all consumer demand. Taiwan for instance, currently only some food, home appliances, communication procts, part-green; while developed countries have adopted a variety of ways and means, including legislation, etc., Lai Tuixing and the achievement of all procts Di green consumption. Thus having a very broad basis of market demand for green marketing activities have laid a solid foundation. To green, for example, the United Kingdom, Germany, the demand for green food can not self-sufficient, the United Kingdom every year, the import of 80% of the total food consumption in Germany is as high as 98%. This indicates that the market potential for green procts is very large, very wide market demand.
Green marketing is the twenty-first century consumer demand resulting from a novel marketing idea, that is, green marketing, marketing is also not out of the original theory. Therefore, the development of green marketing model and program selection and integration of related resources can not can not be severed from the original basis of marketing theory can be said that green marketing is the pursuit of health, safety, environmental protection, developed under the ideology of the new ways and means of marketing. Establish a modern enterprise is only a new marketing philosophy of sustainable development, make efforts to green marketing, the development of green procts for green proction, and sustainable development to adapt to the trend. At the same time, enterprises can further "consumer oriented", to promote sustainable consumption patterns of the full development and realization of their obligation to promote social development and ecological development of the responsibilities and obligations, so that their economic, social and environmental benefits .
F. 急求2万字符的营销方面的英文译文
服务营销 Service Marketing
服务质量管理 service quality management
http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&id=DE2Pbd_qmgkC&dq=Customer+Relationship+Management&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=6-EwTMiydF&sig=PQLcoxGqlWgF7INfmKFpsYg9Bno
http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&id=ZcCiO0UG5VwC&dq=Service+Marketing&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=GNjG_hrpBq&sig=PV6WzLFltr7kYWJlf7kUqvE6wbE
http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&id=T_nzJR6v_zUC&dq=Customer+Relationship+Management&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ZdpWBlzrha&sig=kQHJ8evm-MCEhBbgGbgIQY8yjF8
http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&id=VsESmNFS__IC&dq=Customer+Relationship+Management&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=x7jhHTEhZ8&sig=O0apWa4sfLfpRxN0IwJPoXzOdeM
http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&id=qBXliZ6-CBcC&dq=service+quality+&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=AeMnivMaDr&sig=ys64gjwJNQDZsN56id56LW0uWlk
http://books.google.com.sg/books?hl=en&id=mYrrUHgAgOgC&dq=service+quality+&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=CT2fh07xIp&sig=_Sqy36B49_rUNrQYLYTTjvM6YDk
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Customer relationship management (CRM) is a multifaceted process, mediated by a set of information technologies, that focuses on creating two-way exchanges with customers so that firms have an intimate knowledge of their needs, wants, and buying patterns. In this way, CRM helps companies understand, as well as anticipate, the needs of current and potential customers.[1] Functions that support this business purpose include sales, marketing, customer service, training, professional development, performance management, human resource development, and compensation. Many CRM initiatives have failed because implementation was limited to software installation without alignment to a customer-centric strategy.
There are many aspects of CRM which were mistakenly thought to be capable of being implemented in isolation from each other. [3]
From the outside of the organization, a customer experiences the business as one entity operating over extended periods of time. Thus piecemeal CRM implementation can come across to the customer as unsynchronized where employees and web sites and services are acting independently of one another, yet together represent a common entity.
CRM is the philosophy, policy and coordinating strategy connecting different players within an organization so as to coordinate their efforts in creating an overall valuable series of experiences, procts and services for the customer.
The different players within the organization are in identifiable groups:
Customer Facing Operations - The people and the technology support of processes that affect a customer's experience at the frontline interface between the customer and the organization. This can include face to face, phone, IM, chat, email, web and combinations of all media. Self-service kiosk and web self-service are doing the job of vocals and they belong here.
Internal Collaborative Functional Operations - The people and technology support of processes at the policy and back office which ultimately affect the activities of the Customer Facing Operations concerning the building and maintaining of customer relationships. This can include IT, billing, invoicing, maintenance, planning, marketing, advertising, finance, services planning and manufacturing.
External Collaboration functions - The people and technology support of processes supporting an organization and its cultivation of customer relationships that are affected by the organization's own relationship with suppliers/vendors and retail outlets/distributors. Some would also include instry cooperative networks, e.g. lobbying groups, trade associations. This is the external network foundation which supports the internal Operations and Customer facing Operations.
Customer Advocates and Experience Designers - Creative designers of customer experience that meet customer relationship goals of delivering value to the customer and profit to the organization (or desired outcomes and achievement of goals for non-profit and government organizations)
Performance Managers and Marketing Analysts - Designers of Key Performance Indicators and collectors of metrics and data so as to execute/implement marketing campaigns, call campaigns, Web strategy and keep the customer relationship activities on track. This would be the milestones and data that allow activities to be coordinated, that determine if the CRM strategy is working in delivering ultimate outcomes of CRM activities: market share, numbers and types of customers, revenue, profitability, intellectual property concerning customers preferences.
Customer and Employee Surveyors and Analysts - Customer Relationships are both fact driven and impression driven - the quality of an interaction is as important as the information and outcome achieved, in determining whether the relationship is growing or shrinking in value to the participants.
[edit] Technology considerations
The basic building blocks:
A database for customer lifecycle (time series) information about each customer and prospect and their interactions with the organization, including order information, support information, requests, complaints, interviews and survey responses.
Customer Intelligence - Translating customer needs and profitability projection into game plans for different segments or groups of customers, captured by customer interactions (Human, automated or combinations of both) into software that tracks whether that game plan is followed or not, and whether the desired outcomes are obtained.
Business Modeling Customer Relationship Strategy, Goals and outcomes: Numbers and description of whether goals were met and models of customer segments and game plans worked as hypothesized.
Learning and Competency Management Systems - Customer Capacity and Competency Development - Training and improving processes and technology that enable the organization to get closer to achieving the desired results. Complex systems require practice in order to achieve desired outcomes, especially when humans and technology are interacting. Iteration is the key to refining, improving and innovating to stay ahead of the competition in Customer Relationship Management. (Successful tools, technology and practices will be copied by the competition as soon as they are proven successful.)
The building blocks can be implemented over time separately, but eventually need to be dynamically coordinated. The ongoing alignment of the basic building blocks distinguishes an elegant seamless CRM implementation which successfully builds mutually valuable relationships.
[edit] Types/Variations of CRM
There are several different approaches to CRM, and at present there is no one software package that allows all of these approaches to be applied. When companies consider implementing a CRM strategy, they usually talk about either Campaign Management or Sales Force Automation. Although CRM is much more than either of those parts, software packages are usually based around one or the other idea (with SFA being the most popular).
Operational CRM
Operational CRM provides support to "front office" business processes, including sales, marketing and service. Each interaction with a customer is generally added to a customer's contact history, and staff can retrieve information on customers from the database when necessary.
One of the main benefits of this contact history is that customers can interact with different people or different contact channels in a company over time without having to describe the history of their interaction each time.
Consequently, many call centers use some kind of CRM software to support their call center agents.
Operational CRM processes customer data for a variety of purposes:
Managing Campaigns
Enterprise Marketing Automation
Sales Force Automation
Sales Force Automation (SFA)
Sales Force Automation is a type of Operational CRM that is designed to automate sales-force-related activities, such as lead tracking. Software procts perform such tasks as:
Keeping lists of leads
Assigning list segments to salespeople
Allowing list contacts to be called or e-mailed
Tracking responses
Generating reports
Analytical CRM
Analytical CRM analyzes customer data for a variety of purposes:
Design and execution of targeted marketing campaigns to optimize marketing effectiveness
Design and execution of specific customer campaigns, including customer acquisition, cross-selling, up-selling, retention
Analysis of customer behavior to aid proct and service decision making (e.g. pricing, new proct development etc.)
Management decisions, e.g. financial forecasting and customer profitability analysis
Prediction of the probability of customer defection (churn analysis)
Analytical CRM generally makes heavy use of data mining.
Sales Intelligence CRM
Sales Intelligence CRM is very similar to Analytical CRM, but it is intended as a more direct sales tool. Features include the delivery of "alerts" to sales people based on analysis of such factors as:
Cross-sell/Up-sell/Switch-sell opportunities.
Customer Drift.
Sales performance, good and bad.
Customer trends
Customer margins
Campaign Management
Campaign management software is marketing-oriented CRM software that combines elements of Operational and Analytical CRM and allows campaigns to be run on an existing client base. Campaign Management is used when you need to create personalized offers when it is prohibitively expensive to personally contact each client. Campaign management software functions include:
Choosing campaign recipients from the client base according to selected criteria
Development of a campaign offer (this is often done "out-of-the-system" and is not automated)
Assigning specific campaign offers to selected recipients
Automatically sending offers to the selected clients via selected channels (either directly, via channels such as e-mail, or indirectly, by creating lists for use in channels such as direct mail)
Gathering, storing, and analyzing campaign results (including tracking responses and analyzing propensities)
Collaborative CRM
The function of the Customer Interaction System or Collaborative Customer Relationship Management is to coordinate the multi-channel service and support given to the customer by providing the infrastructure for responsive and effective support to customer issues, questions, complaints, etc.
Collaborative CRM aims to get various departments within a business, such as sales, technical support and marketing, to share the useful information that they collect from interactions with customers. Feedback from a technical support center, for example, could be used to inform marketing staffers about specific services and features requested by customers. Collaborative CRM's ultimate goal is to use information collected from all departments to improve the quality of customer service.[4]
Geographic CRM
Geographic CRM (GCRM) is a customer relation management information system which collaborates geographic information system and traditional CRM.
gCRM combines data collected from route of movement, types of residence, ambient trading areas and other customer and marketing information which are matched with relevant road conditions, building formations, and a floating population. Such data are conformed with a map and is regionally analyzed with OLAP(On-Line Analytical Processing) for visualization. This enables a company to examine potential customers and manage existing customers in the region.
Strategy
Several commercial CRM software packages are available which vary in their approach to CRM. However, as mentioned above, CRM is not just a technology but rather a comprehensive customer-centric approach to an organization's philosophy in dealing with its customers. This includes policies and processes, front-of-house customer service, employee training, marketing, systems and information management. Hence, it is important that any CRM implementation considerations stretch beyond technology, towards the broader organizational requirements.
The objectives of a CRM strategy must consider a company’s specific situation and its customers' needs and expectations. Information gained through CRM initiatives can support the development of marketing strategy by developing the organization's knowledge in areas such as identifying customer segments, improving customer retention, improving proct offerings (by better understanding customer needs), and by identifying the organization's most profitable customers.[5]
CRM strategies can vary in size, complexity and scope. Some companies consider a CRM strategy to only focus on the management of a team of salespeople. However, other CRM strategies can cover customer interaction across the entire organization. Many commercial CRM software packages that are available provide features that serve sales, marketing, event management, project management and finance.
Successes
While there are numerous reports of "failed" implementations of various types of CRM projects,[6] these are often the result of unrealistic high expectations and exaggerated claims by CRM vendors.
Many of these "failures" are also related to data quality and availability. Data cleaning is a major issue. If the company CRM strategy is to track life-cycle revenues, costs, margins and interactions between indivial customers, this must be reflected in all business processes. Data must be extracted from multiple sources (e.g., departmental/divisional databases, including sales, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, finance, service, etc.), requiring an integrated, comprehensive business processing system to be in place with defined structures and data quality. If not, interfaces must be developed and implemented to extract data from different systems. This creates a demand far beyond customer satisfaction to understand the full business-to-business relationship. For this reason, CRM is more than a sales or customer interaction system.
The experience from many companies[who?] is that a clear CRM requirement with regard to reports (e.g., input and output requirements) is of vital importance before starting any implementation.[citation needed] With a proper demand specification, a great deal of time and money can be saved based on realistic expectations of systems capability.[citation needed] A well operating CRM system can be an extremely powerful tool for management and customer strategies.
Privacy and data security
One of the primary functions of CRM software is to collect information about customers. When gathering data as part of a CRM solution, a company must consider customer privacy and data security with respect to legal and cultural environments. Some customers prefer assurance that their data is not shared with third parties without their consent and that it cannot be illicitly accessed by third parties.