These include applications like customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and product lifecycle management.

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These are big changes for marketers, who today spend the majority of their budgets on the earlier stages of the customer lifecycle, rather than the later stages of relationship building.

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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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