What can you do with a customer relationship management solution?
These scenarios, features, and benefits help demonstrate how a customer relationship management system can create efficiency and impact.
Use a CRM system to…
Track leads
Feature
Monitor each opportunity through the sales funnel.
CRM solutions help sales and marketing teams stay organised, understand where each lead is in the sales process, and know who has worked on each opportunity.
Benefit
Accurately understand where everything is in your pipeline.
Tracking lead-related data gives you seller insights, guidance, and provides an instant view of current status.
Monitor sales
Feature
Get real-time performance data.
Sales data can be linked into your CRM solution, providing an immediate, accurate picture of sales.
Benefit
Keep a pulse on progress.
With a real-time view of your pipeline, you’ll be aware of any slowdowns, bottlenecks—or if your team won a major deal.
Get insights
Feature
Receive prescriptive guidance.
Focus on what matters most with AI and built-in intelligence, helping identify which leads are ready to hand off, or which customers need follow-up.
Benefit
Take the most strategic next step.
With guidance that shows you where to focus, you'll be able to identify the top priorities and have confidence your team is making the most of their time and efforts.
Complete tasks
Feature
Automate tasks and workflows.
Build sales quotes, gather customer feedback, send email campaigns, and beyond: task automation helps streamline marketing, sales, and customer service.
Benefit
Boost team efficiency.
CRM systems help eliminate repetitive tasks, letting your team focus on high-impact activities.
Understand customer behaviour
Feature
Optimise the customer journey.
CRM systems include features to help you track engagement across various customer touchpoints.
Benefit
Improve engagement.
Insight into behaviour throughout the customer journey helps surface opportunities for optimisation—and lets you know what’s working well.
Support customers
Feature
Connect across platforms.
Live chat, calls, email, or social, CRM solutions help you connect with customers where they are.
Benefit
Provide attentive customer service.
CRM solutions help you offer great customer service—helping build the trust and loyalty that keeps your customers coming back.
Is a customer relationship management solution right for your business?
For businesses large and small, CRM solutions can help streamline workflows, increase collaboration, improve communication, and help deliver a better customer experience. CRM systems are no longer just a tool for large corporations—smaller businesses can find solutions that fit their needs and grow as they do. A customer relationship management solution could be a great fit if your business could benefit from a single, centralised way to:
Grow sales
Win deals faster
Get a holistic view of customers
Connect sales and marketing
How businesses use customer relationship management
Learn how Rockwater Energy Solutions reached new levels of revenue by shifting from email- and spreadsheet-based sales, marketing, and service to CRM. Providing new levels of visibility, the new CRM solution empowered the sales team to capture over 20,000 sales-rep activities and over 1,100 new opportunities.
What should you consider when researching customer relationship management solutions?
CRM solutions of today offer a variety of features that help you stay on top of activities related to sales, marketing, and building the best possible experience for your customers. Here are some attributes to consider as you evaluate possible CRM systems:
Technology of today
Choose innovative solutions that feature the latest capabilities, including AI, mixed reality, social, and mobile.
Actionable intelligence
Look for a solution that offers guidance from top analytics and AI capabilities.
Unified and connected
Aim for a seamless experience that brings together people, data, and processes on a trusted cloud platform.
Adapts to your needs
Find a flexible solution, with the ability to extend or build a system that meets the ever-changing needs of your business.
Get customer relationship management with Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 provides the full range of CRM capabilities through a series of seamlessly integrated apps:
Working great on their own and even better together, Dynamics 365 apps are modern, adaptable, unified, and intelligent. Use them right out of the box, or customise, build, or extend the apps to meet your needs.