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Sword Ciboodle

Sword Ciboodle Ltd
Private
Industry Software
Fate Acquired by KANA Software
Founded 1986
Defunct 2014
Headquarters Inchinnan, Scotland, UK
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
Website www.sword-ciboodle.com

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

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.

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.

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

The Ciboodle platform consists of:

The Ciboodle platform was subsumed into other KANA products following the acquisition by Verint.

Competitors included:


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