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Sword Ciboodle

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Industry
  
Software

Founded
  
1986

Website
  
www.sword-ciboodle.com

Type of business
  
Private

Key people
  
Mike Hughes (COO), Steven Thurlow (CTO)

Products
  
Ciboodle Flow, Ciboodle One, Ciboodle Crowd, Ciboodle Live

Number of employees
  
300 staff located across 5 continents

Headquarters
  
India of Inchinnan, Inchinnan, United Kingdom, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sword Ciboodle, now part of Verint Systems, Inc., was a provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions based in Scotland with regional offices across North America, South Africa and Asia Pacific.

Contents

The company consistently appeared in both Forrester Research's Wave and Gartner Research's Magic Quadrant reports as an industry leader in Customer Relationship Management.

Clients included Sears, Sony, Vistaprint, JP Morgan Chase, Admiral and Eskom.

Sword Ciboodle was headquartered in India of Inchinnan, an art deco listed building near Glasgow airport.

History

Sword Ciboodle were previously known as Graham Technology plc, co-founded in 1986 by Dr. Iain M. Graham.

On 31 March 2008 Sword Group announced it was acquiring Graham Technology and their Ciboodle product. The company thus became Sword Ciboodle.

On 9 July 2012 Sword Group agreed to sell Ciboodle to KANA Software.

In 2014, KANA Software was purchased by Verint Systems.

Solutions

Sword Ciboodle is modular CRM software for contact centers. The products work across multiple social channels.

The Ciboodle platform consists of:

  • Ciboodle One is the desktop which provides a single customer view, for example of all their products and contact history.
  • Ciboodle Flow is the Workflow engine for business process automation.
  • Ciboodle Live is the Self-service software.
  • Ciboodle Crowd provides a social networking service to customers.
  • The Ciboodle platform was been subsumed into other KANA products following the aquisition by Verint.

    Competitors

    Competitors included:

  • PeopleSoft
  • Pegasystems (who bought Chordiant in March 2010)
  • Oracle (who bought RightNow Technologies in October 2011)
  • SAP
  • References

    Sword Ciboodle Wikipedia