Concursive
{{Short description|American software company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Concursive
| industry = Software
| founded = 2000
| hq_location = Norfolk, Virginia
| products = customer relationship management application
ConcourseConnect
| website = {{URL|http://www.concursive.com/}}
}}
Concursive, until October 2007 named Centric CRM, is a software company located in Norfolk, Virginia, that offers the ConcourseSuite product, a customer relationship management application, and ConcourseConnect, a social software application, both based on Java/J2EE. Concursive supplies products under a software as a service (SaaS) model or a license model.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}
The company was founded in 2000. It competes with major CRM vendors such as Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies and Oracle’s Siebel.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090208060759/http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/08/18/concursive-launches-crm-and-software-as-a-service-price-war/ "Concursive Launches CRM and Software as a Service Price War"]}} MSPmentor.net
History
In June 2007, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) president, Michael Tiemann announced plans to crack down on software vendors that claim to be open source without using an OSI-approved license. Although Concursive described their CRM product as "open source", as of July 2007 it was not certified as such by the OSI."Centric CRM and SocialText respond to open source hard line" CBR online 26 June 2007 However, Concursive quickly announced that they were releasing their Team Elements software components under Larry Rosen's Open Software License.[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9733850-16.html "CentricCRM to go open source next week"] cnet news June 22, 2007
In August 2007, the company announced a partnership with Loopfuse, a company that provides software to track and rate the activity of customers online, useful in scoring sales leads and rating / segmenting prospects.[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9764835-16.html "Loopfuse integrates open-source demand generation into CentricCRM"] cnet news August 22, 2007
In October 2007 the company released a new version of their CRM product with improved support for third party developers including a JSR 168 plug-in architecture.[http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/PPPEfOJ5uq4CVt/CentricCRM-to-Update-Open-Source-CRM-Package.xhtml "CentricCRM to Update Open Source CRM Package"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031144337/http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/PPPEfOJ5uq4CVt/CentricCRM-to-Update-Open-Source-CRM-Package.xhtml |date=2008-10-31 }} Linux Insider 09/11/07 The company changed its name to "Concursive" and its product name to "ConcourseSuite" on 12 December 2007.[http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Centric-CRM-Changes-Name-to-Concursive/ "Centric CRM Changes Name to Concursive"] eWeek.com 2007-12-13
Software
On March 27, 2009, the company released the ConcourseConnect product.{{Citation needed|date=May 2014}}
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