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              CRM is an integral approach  to company leadership. It assimilates and optimizes inter-departmental customer-related  processes in marketing, sales and customer service as well as research and  development. This happens based on a database with corresponding software  for market processing and by means of previously defined sales processes. The  CRM objective there is the creation of added value both on the customer’s and  supplier’s side in the framework of business relations.
 Source:  German Direct-Marketing Association   (Deutscher Direktmarketing Verband e.V. (DDV))
 
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