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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) emerges as a response to organizations that choose to adoptstrategies of relationship marketing so as to o er customers a more personalized experience. The need forsignificant investments in the purchase of technological systems and to adapt the internal procedures causesthe Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to remain in a more traditional posture, unlike the largeenterprises. However, increased competition, globalization of markets, technological development and the ephemerality of customer preferences have led many SMEs to rethink their business. This article seeks toanswer the question "how CRM is adopted in the SMEs, for the purpose of analyzing the critical successfactors relevant to the adoption of CRM in the SMEs?" Therefore case studies were made of threePortuguese enterprises. Interviews were conducted and secondary documents were analyzed to collect data.As the main contribution, an analysis was made of those critical success factors for the adoption of CRMwhich should be considered most important by the SMEs. In conclusion it was found that the enterprisesstudied during the project of CRM implementation had attributed greater importance to the followingcritical success factors, integration of information and data, e icient human resource management andsupport of top management. Furthermore, because of limited resources, it is important for these enterprisesto plan the process of CRM in advance to ensure that the best choices in terms of technology are made. El Customer Relationship Management (CRM) surge como respuesta a las organizaciones que decidenadoptar estrategias de marketing relacional para ofrecer a sus clientes una atención más personalizada. Lanecesidad de inversiones significativas en la compra de sistemas tecnológicos y en la adaptación de losprocedimientos internos hizo con que las Peque as y Medianas Empresas (PME) se mantuvieran en uncircuito más tradicional, al contrario de las grandes empresas. Sin embargo, el aumento de la competencia,la globalización de los mercados, el desarrollo tecnológico y lo efímero de las preferencias de los clienteshan llevado muchas PME a repensar su negocio. Este artículo procura responder la pregunta “Cómo seefectúa la adopción del CRM en las PME?, teniendo como objetivo analizar los factores críticos de suceso para la adopción del CRM en las PME. Para tanto, fueron realizados estudios de casos en tres empresasportuguesas. Como fuente de colecta de datos, se realizaron entrevistas y análisis de documentossecundarios. Como principal contribución, un anál