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This year's report reveals a number of industry positives: 2008 will see the largest average planned increase in CRM budgets to date, and the appeal of software-as-a-service (SaaS) is growing and impacting the industry average for upgrade rates (65% of companies now upgrade at least once a year, with 25% upgrading even more frequently).
But these positives are counterbalanced balanced by a set of somewhat alarming data points:
"There is an interesting paradox going on in CRM right now," explained Rob Bois, research director at AMR Research in a statement. "Spending has reached an all-time high, with expectations nearly as lofty. But implementation failure rates have not improved, nor have ROI metrics. Both buyers and vendors need to figure out how to close this gap soon, or we're just going to repeat the same mistakes made in the late ‘90s all over again."
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