Like a car, an in-house CRM application will get you to the same destination as a hosted application.

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Asana is used for a wide variety of applications, such as project management, software bug tracking, human resources application tracking or a light-weight CRM system.

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This is why so many of our clients choose an in-house CRM system over a cloud based application.

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He also used an on-demand application, called NetSuite, which provides customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) services.

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So Al and Jim built a cloud-based application that centralized the myriad tools that salespeople use, such as email, CRM systems, web conferences, PowerPoint decks, videos, PDFs and so on.

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