SugarCRM
Customers have begun to unleash the social CRM power of Sugar 6, the most intuitive, flexible and open CRM on the planet. These new tools, integrations and out-of-the box capabilities in Sugar 6 extend SugarCRM’s leadership position in driving the value of timely and contextual data within social networks and applications to its customers.
SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a series of webcasts designed to help organizations manage leads and opportunities using SugarCRM.
Whether you're out on the road for weeks at a time meeting with clients, just popping into the city for a weekend conference or taking the family on a hard-earned vacation, a few well-chosen applications can turn your BlackBerry from a communications tool. Your call logs can be exported from the online service as an Excel spreadsheet or imported directly into SugarCRM (using a SugarCRM plug-in) to keep your in-office and out-of-office records together.
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Cost savings are still the primary driver for organizations choosing open-source software, according to Jay Lyman, an analyst at The 451 Group. However, that impression seems to change after adoption, when more users report that flexibility is the primary benefit they enjoy rather than cost savings, he says. "With the downspin of the economy, how you spend your money is critically important," says Bassim Hamadeh, founder of University Readers, which uses SugarCRM software.
SugarCRM and ApexTwo announced today that ApexTwo has been recognized as a silver SugarCRM implementation partner providing best-practice implementation services and solutions for new and current adopters of SugarCRM. ApexTwo has established itself over the last two years as a leading player in producing advanced sales and marketing automation solutions based on the SugarCRM platform.
The genius about SugarCRM though isn't really in the software, or even in the fact that it's open source. What ultimately has the potential to give this software a long life is the market the company has created around its product. Not only are developers making careers out of modifying SugarCRM to solve various data management problems in organizations, but entire companies are being sustained on the increasing demand for implementing and modifying the system and for teaching people how to use it.
Oram thinks customers will like that Azure makes it easy to move both an application and data between an in-house data center and Microsoft's. While SugarCRM supports both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, it runs SQL Azure in Microsoft's cloud. Oram says companies will take advantage of that compatibility. "You can opt to run SugarCRM on premises, keeping your data private, then decide to migrate to a SaaS strategy with very little engineering effort," he says
Sugar 6 the new edition of software-as-a-service SugarCRM's customer relationship management package entered a public beta test program on April 13. The open source CRM package includes a revamped user interface that is designed for faster navigation with simplified one-click access to most features and a completely rewritten mobile connectivity application.
I have over fifteen years experience in systems and network configuration and support. For most of that time I have been working with Open Source Software, and believe that Open Source software provides the best solutions for business, educational and personal use.
