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Zoho Launches Industry's First Multichannel CRMZoho today unveiled the industry's first multichannel customer relationship management software with latest, major release of Zoho CRM. Building from Zoho's award-winning CRM application, the latest version of Zoho CRM supports email, social media, live chat, and phone communications, enabling salespeople to engage their customers and prospects across all channels. Meanwhile, the completely revamped user interface boasts usability innovations such as Timeline (News - Alert) View, Page Layouts, and Gamescope to improve salespeople's ability to close deals. "Today, every progressive sales team needs a CRM that connects with customers and prospects regardless of their preferred communication channel," said Raju Vegesna (News - Alert), chief evangelist of Zoho. "At the same time, the CRM must remain flexible enough to advance the sales process through any channel. Our aim with this release of Zoho CRM is to provide the multichannel support that connects salespeople, prospects and customers and provide the usability enhancements that close more deals." Highlights of the latest version of Zoho CRM include: Multichannel support SalesSignals: SalesSignals keep salespeople informed in real-time about customer actions on various touchpoints like social media, satisfaction surveys and support tickets to help them act in time and make speedy sales. SalesInbox: Zoho is completely changing the way salespeople go about their email with the launch of a new product that works with Zoho CRM: Zoho SalesInbox, a dedicated mail client for salespeople. Emails are organized as per CRM data, adding more context. Metrics like template analysis, version comparison and open rates make sure quality of email keeps improving. Mobile apps for field sales: Sales reps can check-in at customer locations, find prospects nearby, track sales activities, and close more deals on the move with Zoho CRM's new mobile app. Sales managers can foster desired practices among their teams with metric-driven sales contests using the new Zoho Motivator app for iOS, which works in sync with Zoho CRM. Usability innovations Clean and minimalist new interface: The latest version of Zoho CRM is designed to minimize the processes involved in sales and maximize selling. It does so with an intuitive new interface and smart new features:
Page layouts: Many businesses face the challenge of having to handle sales processes that might not always fit into the common CRM sales cycle. Page Layouts enable companies to handle multiple products and processes using a single CRM account. Gamescope: With this feature, anyone, nt just sales managers, can create contests and invite their peers to play a game for a friendly wager. Sales activities like making calls and closing deals could win an employee points, trophies and badges. The use of game playing elements promotes healthy competition within a team. Gamescope complements Zoho Motivator, which is a metric-driven gamification tool. "Our biggest customers have their own set of unique requirements. That is why we continue developing our technology and products to better serve them. Zoho CRM is now fully loaded to help the enterprises of today keep constantly growing," said Raju Vegesna, "The new additions to our CRM speak to our growing commitment to being a key player for mid-market and enterprise businesses." Pricing and Availability The latest version of Zoho CRM is available immediately and has the same pricing structure as the earlier version. Zoho CRM is free up to 10 users. Paid (News - Alert) plans begin at $12/user/month for the Standard Edition and increase to $20/user/month for the Professional Edition and $35/user/month for the fully-featured Enterprise Edition. The email client, Zoho SalesInbox is currently available by request. For access, visit https://zoho.com/salesinbox. A completely customer-centric product suite, CRM Plus is available for $50/user/month. There's also a new Ultimate edition catering specifically to large businesses with features like dedicated database clusters, service level agreements, and dedicated support staff. For more information on Zoho CRM, please visit www.zoho.com/crm. Additional Zoho Resources Zoho news coverage: http://www.zoho.com/inthenews.html Zoho press releases: http://www.zoho.com/press.html Zoho videos: http://youtube.com/zoho Zoho blogs: http://blog.zoho.com Zoho on Twitter (News - Alert): http://www.twitter.com/zoho Zoho on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zoho About Zoho Zoho is THE operating system for business - a single cloud platform with all the necessary applications to run a business entirely from the cloud. Businesses can acquire and manage customers using Zoho's marketing, sales and customer support applications - Campaigns, CRM and Desk - and can then empower employees to create, store and distribute content on the cloud with Zoho's productivity and collaboration applications - Office, Mail and Docs. Additionally, businesses can run their own operations on Zoho's finance and human resources applications - Books, People and Recruit. More than 20 million users around the world across hundreds of thousands of companies rely on Zoho every day to run their businesses - including Zoho itself. A business can choose to run the entire Zoho suite or just a single application. Zoho applications are available directly through zoho.com, or through an ecosystem of hundreds of worldwide Zoho partners. Zoho is a division of Zoho Corp., a privately-held and consistently profitable company, with more than 4,000 employees. Zoho is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA (News - Alert) with international headquarters in Chennai, India and offices in Austin, London, Yokohama and Beijing. For more information, please visit http://www.zoho.com.
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