The supply and demand relationship in each market determines how much of the inflation can be priced into rental rates.

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Marc Benioff knew that Seibel had already started a river flowing of demand for a customer relationship management (CRM) database package for businesses, but they were a traditional software model.

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Salesforce.com provides on-demand services for customer-relationship management.

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Kaminario has also found a demand among companies with intensive customer relationship management (CRM) practices.

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Second, remember that benchmark prices for oil do not have a strong relationship to supply and demand.

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With the Blackberry, Research in Motion was able to attach itself to a different customer and drive demand away from the traditional carrier relationship.

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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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Today the consumer-brand relationship is developing a dynamic in which consumers demand greater access to brand information than ever before.

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In a more complex economy, the relationship between production (supply) and spending (demand) still holds.

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