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  • Redux: Re-visiting Posts from the Past

    Just in case you missed these great posts the first time...Steven ''Doc'' List on Expertise ''We build CRM software. Our customers provide expertise to their customers. Their customers expect them to have knowledge and skills that those customers need. Should this idea inform our design and implementation decisions?''Mike Bailey on How do We ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on February 22, 2008
  • Dovetail Email Agent 1.4 For Clarify

    On October 15th Dovetail Software shipped the latest version of its email processing engine designed to access the Amdocs Clarify database. This version reflects a name change as well: what was long known in the Clarify community as SuperEmailClerk.NET, sometimes abbreviated as SEC.NET, is now Dovetail Email Agent 1.4. One great ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on October 30, 2007
  • APIs for Clarify

    When does it make sense to write a routine from scratch, versus using a proven API that has all the testing done? The answer comes down to time and cost of course, a different equation in each case. A recent dialog in the ITtoolbox Clarify forum illustrates the dimension of the issue. A user asked for advice on Clarify’s Assign ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on October 23, 2007
  • Product Comes from Process

    Yesterday we said that as a company strips out the barriers and obstacles between itself and its customers, it approaches closer to the ideal of customer service, which already exists perfectly in the customer mind. We said you could see this reinvention happening by judging the goods and services that the company produced. Seth ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on October 22, 2007
  • Alignment Means Results

    The issue of IT alignment is commonly heard nowadays, as part of the plea of the business side of the enterprise to get better response from IT. Some say that such alignment comes at the expense of technical proficiency, but we disagree. We’re tempted to say that alignment is just another word for results. As Dovetail Software says ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on September 17, 2007
  • Integrating Data and People

    Probably the most valuable aspect of Dovetail Software’s array of products for the legacy Amdocs Clarify CRM install is their small footprint in any architecture, their sheer willingness to integrate with other systems. Ease of integration matters because data accumulation is growing, and data retrieval is increasingly a part of ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on September 5, 2007
  • Agile Process Agile Product

    It was a foregone conclusion that Dovetail Software would come to call itself an agile developer: you had only to know its nimble products to see that they must have come from a group of engineers who were open to getting it right, and who wanted to work towards this end, rather than coming from an entrenched position of how things ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on August 24, 2007
  • The Risk of SaaS in CRM

    The debate continues about the relative values of on-demand versus on-premise CRM solutions. Concerns about hosted services hinge on security and, most importantly, integration. At the beginning of this year we studied the Software-as-a-Service situation in general and especially as it relates to Amdocs Clarify owners, and the value ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on August 22, 2007
  • Long IT Road Ahead

    If the enterprise could start from scratch with all of its IT environment, what would it do differently? For the owner of the Amdocs Clarify CRM system the most profitable answer would be to deploy nothing but Dovetail CRM products against the Clarify database. For the rest of the industry, and in other fields, the menu of options ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on August 17, 2007
  • Email No Good For Parties

    One of the first areas of acclaim that Dovetail Software received for its applications – created to replace the Amdocs Clarify CRM applications – was the marvelous range of new functions that Dovetail brought to email. “For users of Clarify data within an enterprise, Dovetail has delivered enormous email capability not present ...
    Posted to Dovetail Software (Weblog) by Dovetail Software on August 15, 2007
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