The company provides products that help companies with their suite of applications, including accounting, customer relationship management, professional services automation, and e-commerce.

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Business ByDesign includes hosted versions of several SAP applications, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, business intelligence, supply chain management and product lifecycle management.

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But I implement customer relationship management applications from various vendors (including Microsoft) for a living.

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Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.

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