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13/10/2010 SVG wins CRM Best Practice Award

The transport and logistics specialist, SVG, won this year's CRM Best Practice Award and is now the eighth CAS customer to have been awarded this prestigious prize. The winners were announced at this year's CRM expo in Nuremburg, Germany.

25–27/05/2010 The ICT business fair to boost your network

TOSM (Torino Software and Systems Meeting) aims to promote and strengthen the collaboration between ICT firms and companies that are looking for specific ways to increase their competitiveness through ICT. Over 60 workshops, more than 100 exhibitors, and representatives from small and medium-sized enterprises across a wide range of industries like health, mechanical engineering, nutrition, automobile, banking and finance will make this trade fair an exciting and diverse event. And our sales partner, BLACKBIRDS S.r.l., will be presenting the CRM solution – CAS genesisWorld. So don't miss it. We look forward to seeing you there.

25/03/2010 Funding grants for software cluster

Europe's largest software cluster "Softwareinnovationen für das digitale Unternehmen" (software innovations for the digital company), including CAS Software AG, has emerged as winner of the second round of the leading edge cluster competition. 40 million euros funding grants have been awarded to ease research and development of future technologies.

14/01/2010 New features in the market-leading CRM solution and mobile contact management for small and medium-sized enterprises

At CeBIT 2010, CAS Software AG will be presenting the smart new features to its CRM solution, CAS genesisWorld. In addition, the software specialist and its partners will be unveiling the new industry solution CAS Research and the latest version of its SaaS contact management solution, CAS PIA version 2.0.

12/08/2009 The new version of CAS PIA scores with new features

The latest version of CAS PIA, version 1.6, has a whole range of new features. The highlights of the Web-based contact management solution for the self employed and small businesses include the so-called “heat maps” and the new overall dossier. For a free 30-day trial, go to CAS PIA.

03/08/2009 Growth during the economic downturn: CRM marches on  

Despite the economic crisis, many companies are increasingly investing in ways to further improve their sales processes: according to analysts from Gartner, the CRM market for small and medium-sized companies will continue to grow in 2009. CAS Software, the German market leader in CRM for small and medium-sized companies, has also seen  clear signs of this trend in the first half of 2009: turnover has increased by 17.8 percent compared to last year. Twenty new recruits have joined the CAS team this year already.

26/06/2009 CAS among the top 10 most innovative small and midsize companies 

Once again CAS Software is one of the 10 most innovative small and midsize companies. On June 26, Lothar Späth announced the CRM experts as winners in the "Innovationsförderndes Top-Management" (top management promoting innovation) category. The jury was impressed with CAS’s comprehensive approach to the innovation process and the market success of the innovations.

19/06/2009 CAS genesisWorld – Launch of the new Version 11

The new version of CAS genesisWorld is the smart complete solution for small and midsize companies. Many new features and optimized modules ensure that even more of those mundane, day-to-day office tasks are taken off your hands and your team can work even faster and more efficiently.

13/05/2009 Ways to get fit for the current CRM year

At the 23rd partner conference, the CAS team motivated its partners with excellent ways to get fit: 93 software service providers accepted the invitation and equipped themselves for a CRM year full of opportunity. Successful best practice examples and numerous tips for sales and marketing provided the energy kick. There were also awards for the most successful CAS partners.

27/03/2009 CAS PIA achieved international recognition

CAS PIA was nominated for an award at the Eclipse Community Awards in Santa Clara, California (USA). The Web-based contact management solution is based on Eclipse RAP technology and other open source components. CAS Software AG also joined the Eclipse Foundation, underlining its commitment to the use of the latest technologies.

06/03/2009 CAS Drive wins the "Innovation Prize 2009"

CAS Drive is an industry solution that enables car dealerships to manage their customers more efficiently. Smart CRM capabilities, a revolutionary way of maintaining addresses, intelligent campaign management features, and the integration of all data and automobile manufacturers were decisive factors in CAS Drive winning the "Innovation Prize 2009" in the CRM category.

04/03/2009 "Award for Excellence" with the Configurator from CAS Software AG

CAS The "Retroconf" project has won the Airbus "Award for Excellence." Retroconf enables Airbus employees to more quickly create custom and tested offers for airplanes that, for example, are to be fitted with state-of-the-art altimeters, radars, or wiring. In order to do so, the sophisticated technical know-how must be stored centrally in a software solution and be able to be automatically processed. The project was implemented using CAS Software AG's product configurator.

31/01/2009 CAS Software AG is Employer of the Year 2009

CAS Software AG has won top honors in the nationwide "Top Job Employer of the Year Awards 2009." The panel of experts was impressed by the way CAS Software has consistently and professionally included its employees in its company strategy. Martin Hubschneider, CEO of CAS Software AG, was pleased to accept the award. Read more.

25/01/2009 Launch of CAS PIA in Czech Republic and Romania

In January, KOMIX s.r.o. and Sistec-SBsol, both CAS Software AG Certified Partners, simultaneously launched the new SaaS offer CAS PIA in the Czech and Romanian markets. Sistec-SBSol is an IT services provider, member of the RTC Group, the Romanian leader in office equipment, with one of the nationally fastest growing IT division. KOMIX is a Czech system integrator also providing its own IT solutions based on advanced but well-established technologies. The business potential for CRM in Central Europe is high and interest in hosted solutions is growing quickly, particularly for Small and Medium Enterprises. Targeting European leadership in CRM for SME, CAS is developing with CAS PIA a comprehensive internationalization strategy in the SaaS market based on innovative cooperative implementation scenarios. Today, you can find information about CAS PIA in German, Czech and Romanian. This internationalization process is supported by the European Commission in the scope of the VILLAGE project.

30/12/2008 Airbus – "Award for Excellence" with the Configurator from CAS Software AG

In December 2008, the "Retroconf" project won the Airbus "Award for Excellence" in the "INNOVATION" category. The aim of the project was to enable Airbus personnel to be able to provide their customers with more accurate offers in a shorter space of time, and to concentrate all Airbus' know-how into one system, which could then be accessed and used by all those who need it. The main software in this project was the product configurator developed by CAS Software AG. It helps to ensure that all planes are fitted, for example, with the latest altimeters, wiring and radars. This is "the kind of initiative that will help move the company forward," said Jérome Javelle, Head of the Design Office at Airbus.

06/11/2008 CAS genesisWorld user wins CRM Best Practice Award

OKI Systems Deutschland GmbH – the business printing solutions and output management specialist – has won first prize in this year's CRM Best Practice Award. The award ceremony took place on November 5th at the CRM expo in Nuremberg, Germany. In order to establish KIM – its new customer relationship management system – in house, OKI carried out an internal advertising campaign to inform its staff about the CRM deployment using brochures, posters, etc. In so doing, OKI has succeeded in impressing its staff with the new system and has involved them emotionally. Through professional project management and appealing packaging, those responsible for CRM at OKI have achieved an extremely high level of user acceptance across the board. OKI is now the sixth CAS genesisWorld user to have won this prestigious prize, awarded once a year by the trade journal acquisa and asfc, the organizers of the CRM expo.

25/08/2008 CAS genesisWorld: New Version 10 - Two editions

The new CAS genesisWorld Version 10 is now introduced in two editions: CAS genesisWorld Standard and Premium Edition which both can be enhanced with modules. New features and functionalities support time-saving processes. Midsized enterprises will benefit from the flexible and efficient operation of CRM in their daily work.

18/06/2008 KOMIX and CAS introduce a new sales package for Czech and Slovak market: CAS genesisWorld miniCC

KOMIx s.r.o. a CAS Software AG Certified Partner in Czech Republic and 2N Telekomunikace a.s. the largest CEE telecom equipment manufacturer introduced together to the market a new solution for small contacts center. CAS genesisWorld miniCC edition offers collaborative features based on the CRM solution CAS genesisWorld and Ateus Omega or Ateus NetStar PBX systems. With this sales package, the customer receives a standardized scalable solution for management of the business processes in customer care. CAS genesisWorld miniCC edition is built on peace needs of the smaller domestic companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

08/05/2008 Developing customer relationships - the most important success factor for SMEs

In a recent study about management consultants, the Federal Association of German Management Consultants BDU e.V. has underlined the great challenge that small and midsize enterprises face in laying their strategic focus on customer relationships. The BDU sees a strong need for action in the future. Companies need to secure competitive advantages and further expand their individual processes in a time where markets call for flexibility and excellent customer service.

26/01/2008 CAS Software among the best employers in the SME sector

CAS Software AG was awarded the "Top Job" seal of approval. This ranks the company among the best employers in the SME sector. With its human resources policy focused on a long-term perspective, the CRM market leader proves to be a role model employer. The prize was awarded by Germany's former economics minister Wolfgang Clement.

25/01/2008 CAS products were awarded the Product of the year 2008 in Czech

CAS teamWorks and CAS genesisWorld were awarded the Product of the year 2008 title in the categories Information Systems and Business Software. The Czech Computerworld was convinced of new features and an excellent price/performance ratio. Žebrák Miroslav from KOMIX was interviewed about his work with CAS Software products and convinced the committee.

15/11/2007 Happy faces at the CRM Best Practice Award at the CRM-expo

The Protestant church Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz has won the CRM Best Practice Gold Award 2007 with the software solution CAS genesisWorld. The award in the business-to-business category was given to the non-profit organisation on the occasion of the CRM-expo trade fair.

01/08/2007 CAS genesisWorld Version 9 is now available

The customer relationship management software CAS genesisWorld is now available in Version 9. The latest software solution developed by CAS Software AG, the German market leader in the SME sector, offers new intelligent features and time-saving functions for daily work processes. Highlights are new revolutionary features for address management, free configurable customer and project dashboards for a quick overview as well as time-saving functions to improve daily work processes. Learn more about the CAS genesisWorld Version 9!

29/05/2007 Solution and Sales Partnership with T-Systems

CAS Software AG and T-Systems Business Services GmbH are now working together to distribute their products. The aim of the cooperation is to offer integrated solutions for the SME sector. The partnership is a great example of the excellent product acceptance of CAS genesisWorld.

08/05/2007 Flexible CRM industry solutions for banks and travel agencies

A new cooperation of CAS Software AG and PASS Consulting Group: Both companies are working together to develop flexible CRM industry solutions for banks and travel agencies. The new, tailor-made CRM industry solutions can be already purchased.

26/02/2007 CeBIT 2007: Prospering customer relationships...

CAS Software AG presents a new dimension of intelligent CRM: Reference databases fundamentally influence address management and smart functions facilitate daily work. Comfortable functions integrated in the user interface support an easy duplicate search or the flexible, mobile access to important information. Experience the highlights live and make an appointment with us.

16/01/2007 Germany's CRM market leader in the medium-sized businesses grows strongly

The previous year 2006 turned out more than positive for the CAS Software AG. After the year-end accounts, the result of the sales of CRM-licenses showed an increase of 33 percent. The "Karlsruher" experts for Customer Relationship Management stand for innovation and security in investments which is also shown by the award "Top Innovator".

15/12/2006 PAC attests CAS Software AG a leadership position

Entitled "CRM - the trend in Europe", PAC (Pierre Audoin Consultants) writes about the CRM market in their December 2006 Newsletter: Who wants to stay competitive just cannot afford anymore to postpone investments in the Customer Management. […] Within the medium-sized businesses, companies like…CAS (Germany) have a very strong position. […] The following ranks are occupied differently in the countries. Thus Coheris is a leading provider in France, CAS in Germany, and MBS or Sage in Great Britain.

25/09/2006 Corporate portal for employees, business associates and customers

The new version 5 presents CAS teamWorks as a compact and intelligent corporate portal, which includes intra- as well as extranet functionalities. As a corporate portal for employees, partners and customers, it offers all in one - smart and efficient.

04/08/2006 Cross-bordered cooperation with Russia

The business development department "Wirtschaftsförderung Karlsruhe" (further information in German) unites German and Russian IT companies in a pilot project unique in Germany. On that occasion, Russian guests met with representatives from Karlsruhe, among these Martin Hubschneider, Chairman of the CAS Software AG Management Board and member of the CyberForum Management Board (further information in German). Among other subjects, a study about Russian and German IT markets "Märkte der IT: Russland und Deutschland", which takes a close look at chances and risks about cross-bordered cooperations, has been presented.

26/06/2006 CAS Software AG is the ”Innovator of the year 2006”

CAS Software AG received the renowned award "Innovator of the year 2006". Therefore CAS Software AG is the first IT business company to achieve the overall win in the German wide comparative study Top 100 which elects annually the most innovative companys in the category for medium sized businesses. On June 23rd Martin Hubschneider, Chairman of the Management Board, also received the award in the category "Innovationsförderndes Top-Management", a category that measures the success of the management in motivating the employees to develop new ideas for the company. The awards were presented by Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Späth.

31/03/2006 A global web strategy for CAS genesisWorld

This march, CAS Software AG launched a new high-quality international web presence. Targeting European leadership in CRM for SME, we needed a comprehensive global web strategy. Today, you can get information on our CRM product in three new languages at the following sites: Logiciel CRM (French), Solutie CRM (Romanian), CRM szoftver (Hungarian).

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