The market for ecommerce CRM software is expected to reach almost $24 billion in 2014, an increase of a third
since 2012. On-demand, or Software as a Service (SaaS), CRM deployments will account for 50% of total CRM
software sales by 2015. If we take a look at the CRM business systems integration climate, only 16% of
enterprise ecommerce companies have elected for a full integration! This leave enormous room for early
adapters to integrate their CRM systems with their ecommerce store catalogs and gain a serious competitive
advantage.
As a side note, all of you have heard the term ERP, but if you're not 100% clear on what it means, here's a
quick summary. ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. It's a piece of software that's specifically
designed to help manage every aspect of your business. Whether fulfillment, products, reporting, or a myriad
of other items, it can be an extremely powerful piece of software when plugged in (i.e. read "integrated")
into all of your data-providing applications.