The development of technology has brought much new changes and additional features to Customer Relationship Management (CRM). With the coming-up of mobile phones, laptops, e-mail and advanced networking has made available various business task at your finger tip. The advent of these facilities brought Sales Force Automation (SFA) tools to help different sales organization. These have also brought a dramatic evolution in the field of marketing when the focus was transferred from mass-dealing to one-to-one customer-focused marketing. This concept also has helped the growth of marketing to maturity.
SFA is a business application mainly used in the marketing and management of an organization. It helps in increasing the marketing responsiveness and sales productivity. A CRM architecture will offer a strategic tool for sales force automation. A well established CRM system will make the tasks much easier when dealing with the customers and other job functions. Understanding your customers and the importance of personalization and segmentation are the major factors that can lead to efficient marketing and sales.
The innovations on the technical side such as communication have started changing the different business attitudes. Various marketing tools and ideas were put forward such as market analysis, market research, pricing policies and installment credit. The advancement of mobile and e-mail technology has brought-in the concept of personalized marketing which changed the whole picture in the business realm.