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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;There was a recent interview with Raj Bricksin of Dynlink (&lt;A href="http://www.dynlink.com/"&gt;http://www.dynlink.com/&lt;/A&gt;) about the growing attraction of Microsoft CRM in the GC community.&amp;nbsp; Check out this &lt;A class="" title="Bricksin Interview" href="http://www.pvbs.net/bricksin_interview.htm" mce_href="http://www.pvbs.net/bricksin_interview.htm"&gt;link&lt;/A&gt; for the full interview.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;What value does CRM provide concerning existing contract management and optimization?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;CRM lets you keep track of your existing contracts. You can determine funding amount remaining, contracts re-bidding periods, or contracts that are over budget or set up warnings well in advance of a project being over budget. You can manage subcontractors with a centralized project portal or a personalized dashboard. You can also set up a relationship chart of the key people at the customer account or program office that are important to your project, as seen in the image below.&lt;/P&gt;
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