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Mid-Size Manufacturer Leaves Salesforce.com for On-Premises Product

Posted on Thursday, December 14, 2006 6:09:00 PM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

Abstract:Washington-based manufacturer TigerStop brings customer relationship management in house with a switch to Maximizer Software's on-premises product.
Keywords:CRM, Maximizer Software, TigerStop, Salesforce.com, customer relationship management, on-premise software, software as a service, SaaS
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In the battle between vendors of on-premise customer-relationship management (CRM) products and those offering CRM software as a service, on-premises purveyor Maximizer Software this week added one to the win column.

TigerStop LLC, a manufacturer of stop/gauge and pusher systems for various industries, has jettisoned its Saleforce.com CRM system in favor of Maximizer Enterprise, which it has installed on premises at its main facility in Vancouver, WA.

TigerStop is a small firm with fewer than 100 employees across its offices and assembly plants in Washington state, the Netherlands, and India. The company's eponymous main product acts as an automated feeding/stop system that can be integrated into cutting machinery for industries from woodworking to plastics to metals. TigerStop markets its products through a vast global network of dealers.

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