CRM Magazine are going to release the results of their 2005 CRM leader awards in the October issue of CRM Magazine. There’s no word on their website, but a press release seems to include all the interesting info.

The types of awards include an “Influential Leader” award for individuals, a CRM Hall of Fame entry (!), a CRM elite award, and the best one of the bunch, the CRM Market Leader award.

The winner of the Small Business Market Leader award is Salesforce.com with honourable mentions to FrontRange Solutions, Maximizer Software, NetSuite and Sage Software. In this category, the company announced as the one to watch is Microsoft.

Hopefully there will be more information available on the CRM Magazine website some time soon. Otherwise, you may have to pick up the October copy in print to get all the details.

I was just thinking to myself, it’s a shame that the is no awards given to small software companies who innovate and provide helpful CRM solutions to plenty of small businesses around the world. Wouldn’t it be good to have some awards given to these guys?

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