Hickory CRM is a professional customer relationship management solution providing rich and intelligent
functionality in the areas of sales force automation, customer service and support, marketing automation,
and analytics. This solution is recommended for organizations which are looking for:
Enterprise-class features like role-based security, system-wide/pervasive audit-trail, true platform
independence, and virtually unlimited scalability.
Professional CRM suite that has a powerful and comprehensive best-of-breed features for sales, service,
marketing, contact center, and issue management; multi-entity enabled with multi-language and multi-currency
support for organizations in a global market.
Advanced Activity Management and Issue Tracking to coordinate workflow in large projects, track and monitor
all project-related incidents and activities, group and structure your activities with activity trackers, stay
in control with advanced time-tracking and real-time reports.
A web-based solution to eliminate the need to deploy proprietary clients throughout your organization. Simply
connect with any recent version of Internet Explorer (IE), Opera, Mozilla, or Firefox browser.
Easy integration and high interoperability with your existing applications like Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP), Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) so that previous investments are protected.
Highly scalability: from a single-user environment on a laptop to enterprise-class globally distributed systems
with tens of thousands of concurrent users - it has been designed to fit your needs.
Extremely low operations and maintenance costs because it has been designed with open standards, low complexity,
and the highest quality to provide true 24x7 availability.
A solution capable of running on any platform with a J2EE-compliant Application Server (e.g. JBoss, BEA WebLogic
or IBM WebSphere) and one of the major database management systems (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, or MySQL).
Features: (click on +/- to show or hide details)
Sales Force Automation
Account and Contact Management
Complex Legal Entities
Leads and Opportunities
Quotes and Sales Orders
Invoices
Territory Management
Complex Product Catalog
Complex Pricing and Discounting
Activity and Task Management
meetings
sales visits
tasks
e-mails
short message service (SMS)
mobile multi-media messaging (MMS)
fax and mailings
Collaborative Sales Support
Incident Management
Advance notification
subscription based
e-mail and SMS
Activity Management
sub-tasking
scheduling
task sequencing
activity linking
track-back linking
Reports and Filters
time tracking
workloads
overviews
Workflow
Customer Service and Support
Incident and Case Management
Complex Contract Management
Collaborative Service Support
Effort Tracking and Billing
Product and Service Management
Complex and Structured Products
Complex pricing (e.g. customer-driven pricing and discounting, etc.)
Complex Contract Management
Service Contracts with Work-Orders
Real-Time Booking Engine
Chart of Accounts with unrestricted complexity
Compound Bookings with multiple legs
Booking Periods with multi-phase finalization
Commitment of Bookings with multi-party sign-off
Multi-Currency
Tamper-proof audit
Security
Basic and Advanced Authentication
Authorized User Access Control (roles, privileges, and so forth)