# Concursive

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American software company

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Concursive Industry Software Founded 2000 Headquarters Norfolk, Virginia Products customer relationship management application ConcourseConnect Website www.concursive.com

**Concursive**, until October 2007 named **Centric CRM**, is a software company located in [Norfolk, Virginia](/source/Norfolk%2C_Virginia), that offers the ConcourseSuite product, a [customer relationship management](/source/Customer_relationship_management) application, and [ConcourseConnect](/source/ConcourseConnect), a [social software](/source/Social_software) application, both based on [Java](/source/Java_(programming_language))/[J2EE](/source/Java_Platform%2C_Enterprise_Edition). Concursive supplies products under a [software as a service](/source/Software_as_a_service) (SaaS) model or a license model.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

The company was founded in 2000. It competes with major CRM vendors such as [Salesforce.com](/source/Salesforce.com), [RightNow Technologies](/source/RightNow_Technologies) and [Oracle](/source/Oracle_Corporation)’s [Siebel](/source/Siebel_Systems).[1]

## History

In June 2007, the [Open Source Initiative](/source/Open_Source_Initiative) (OSI) president, [Michael Tiemann](/source/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.[2] However, Concursive quickly announced that they were releasing their Team Elements software components under [Larry Rosen](/source/Lawrence_Rosen_(attorney))'s [Open Software License](/source/Open_Software_License).[3]

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.[4]

In October 2007 the company released a new version of their CRM product with improved support for third party developers including a [JSR 168](/source/Java_Portlet_Specification#JSR_168) plug-in architecture.[5] The company changed its name to "Concursive" and its product name to "ConcourseSuite" on 12 December 2007.[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Concursive Launches CRM and Software as a Service Price War"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090208060759/http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/08/18/concursive-launches-crm-and-software-as-a-service-price-war/) MSPmentor.net

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** "Centric CRM and SocialText respond to open source hard line" CBR online 26 June 2007

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["CentricCRM to go open source next week"](https://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9733850-16.html) cnet news June 22, 2007

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Loopfuse integrates open-source demand generation into CentricCRM"](https://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9764835-16.html) cnet news August 22, 2007

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["CentricCRM to Update Open Source CRM Package"](http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/PPPEfOJ5uq4CVt/CentricCRM-to-Update-Open-Source-CRM-Package.xhtml) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20081031144337/http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/PPPEfOJ5uq4CVt/CentricCRM-to-Update-Open-Source-CRM-Package.xhtml) 2008-10-31 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Linux Insider 09/11/07

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Centric CRM Changes Name to Concursive"](http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Centric-CRM-Changes-Name-to-Concursive/) eWeek.com 2007-12-13

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