Daily News 2004/02/24

Cisco and Microsoft will become partners to develop the market of small and medium-sized enterprise together

　　Microsoft and Cisco plan to set up a kind of new-type partnership relation recently. If this kind of cooperation takes smoothly, then the multiuse serve and CRM software developed by Microsoft for small and medium-sized enterprise with under 500 staff ( CRM) will be more powerful if it cooperates with the network products produced by Cisco, and enters the market of U.S.A.'s small and medium-sized enterprise rapidly

　　The director of market commercial development department, Rex Bloesser expressed that the small and medium-sized enterprises can set up a serve easily and use the Internet more safely. The vice president of Cisco's global commercial market department claimed, the small and medium-sized enterprise would also gain the CRM function that is combined with the capability of voice and data through the cooperation service of Microsoft and Cisco, just as the service that a lot of large-scale enterprises have already obtained. For example, when an extant user carries on the network to call out, the relevant information of this user could be seen on the computer of the agent of call center, included the caller's purchase history.

　　However, most CRM software are used in the large-scale enterprise mainly. Microsoft has already seen the need to the advanced CRM software in small and medium-sized enterprise, and developed some software for them to meet their demands. Cisco showed, a lot of small and medium-sized enterprises can all acquire an advantage from this cooperation of Microsoft and Cisco.

ZTE wins a bid of China Mobile MMS third term projects exclusively

　　A few days ago, ZTE won the bid of China Mobile MMS (multimedia message system) third term projects and be responsible for the color message center construction of Nanjing and Hangzhou that are the two developed city in China east exclusively. This will establish a good foundation all-sided for ZTE to serve the color message engineering construction of China Mobile.