Concursive
| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Products | customer relationship management application ConcourseConnect |
| Website | www |
Concursive, until October 2007 named Centric CRM, is a software company located in Norfolk, Virginia, that offers the ConcourseSuite product, a customer relationship management application, and ConcourseConnect, a social software application, both based on Java/J2EE. Concursive supplies products under a software as a service (SaaS) model or a license model.[citation needed]
The company was founded in 2000. It competes with major CRM vendors such as Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies and Oracle’s Siebel.[1]
History
[edit]In June 2007, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) president, Michael Tiemann announced plans to crack down on software vendors that claim to be open source without using an OSI-approved license. Although Concursive described their CRM product as "open source", as of July 2007 it was not certified as such by the OSI.[2] However, Concursive quickly announced that they were releasing their Team Elements software components under Larry Rosen's Open Software License.[3]
In August 2007, the company announced a partnership with Loopfuse, a company that provides software to track and rate the activity of customers online, useful in scoring sales leads and rating / segmenting prospects.[4]
In October 2007 the company released a new version of their CRM product with improved support for third party developers including a JSR 168 plug-in architecture.[5] The company changed its name to "Concursive" and its product name to "ConcourseSuite" on 12 December 2007.[6]
Software
[edit]On March 27, 2009, the company released the ConcourseConnect product.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Concursive Launches CRM and Software as a Service Price War" Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine MSPmentor.net
- ^ "Centric CRM and SocialText respond to open source hard line" CBR online 26 June 2007
- ^ "CentricCRM to go open source next week" cnet news June 22, 2007
- ^ "Loopfuse integrates open-source demand generation into CentricCRM" cnet news August 22, 2007
- ^ "CentricCRM to Update Open Source CRM Package" Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Linux Insider 09/11/07
- ^ "Centric CRM Changes Name to Concursive" eWeek.com 2007-12-13
- Software companies based in Virginia
- Companies based in Norfolk, Virginia
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- American companies established in 2000
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- 2000 establishments in Virginia
- Software companies established in 2000