Microsoft has made much of its price advantage over Salesforce.com. But there are obviously other considerations besides price, and Robert Kuhlman of AdvancedSPS describes two of them in a recent article.
He recalls that as sales VP for a direct marketing firm, he had to compare Dynamics CRM with Salesforce.com.
The first advantage of Dynamics CRM was "flexibility." He notes that flexibility quickly turned out to be extremely important: "Microsoft's flexible solution allows you to easily move your entire installation from a hosted environment to your site, with all of your customizations and data intact. Thankfully, we made the right decision, because...