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   Marketing and Sales is the prerequisite to any business’s success. Before there was a different concept of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), the companies’ marketing and sales teams used to engage in customer relationship activities. CRM as a separate niche began during the late 1950s and grew into a necessary concept by 1980. Then CRM itself became a particular subject in the specialized field of marketing, sales, advertising, and public relations exercise. Post-1980s Sales reps phenomenon commencing with database marketing did see a significant change from direct marketing and selling to the foundation of the CRM we see today. Act & Goldmine was the first of its kind Contact Management Software (CMS) and the most basic CRM system that began managing different functionalities and roles of marketing and sales. During the late 1990s, CRM came online as Siebel Sales Handheld, the first mobile CRM launched by Siebel. However, the lack of other essential devices made ...