SugarCRM is the premiere open source customer relationship management solution. It has been disrupting the CRM industry by providing robust extensible customer relationship management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.The full story
Entries from January 30th, 2008
2008′s Top Leaders in Open Source Business
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
CRM Outsiders: The Similarities Between Movie Theatres and Proprietary Software
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Apart from being irrationally over-priced (like most proprietary software) the sizes of popcorn, soft drinks, etc. is inherently designed to force customers to consider the upsell. For example, a tiny bag of popcorn was $4.50, but a much larger bag was only $5.00. The idea being that only an idiot wouldn?t upgrade to get nearly [...]
CRM Outsiders: CRM Equals Real ROI
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Upon asking him why his company selected SugarCRM over other name brand solutions, he simply replied ?risk mitigation.? In other interviews I conduct, the answer usually revolves around SugarCRM?s open source model or functionality/usability, but for both this IT project manager and his CEO, the prospect of purchasing or installing another CRM solution after just [...]
CRM Outsiders: Speed and CRM Deployments
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
“Too many people think that in order to have a ?fast? deployment of a CRM system, the product must be vanilla or somehow divorced from complex IT infrastructure (such as a SaaS tool). But I?m seeing SugarCRM users go live pretty quickly on top of some complex IT stacks.”The full story
Sales & Marketing Magazine: CRM Evolution
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
The Sugar 5.0 model lends itself to the user-friendly and customizable interface trends of corporate and social sectors by utilizing “multi-instance” applications. As opposed to preceding multi-tenant SaaS models that merged vendor and provider in a single database, multi-instance allows for deeper customization, faster deployment and data flexibility. Users can make all data displays?including dashboards, [...]
SugarCRM Announces Keynotes and Sponsors for SugarCon 2008
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Journalist Daniel Lyons, Technology Visionaries Paul Greenberg, Larry Augustin, Gerhard Gschwandtner and Mark Leslie to speak. Research In Motion, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, MySQL, Talend and Levementum to Sponsor Commercial Open Source CRM ConferenceThe full story
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Free Joomla! 1.5 Tutorial Videos
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management
View a complete range of new and free Joomla 1.5 Tutorial Videos (http://www.opensourcenetwork.eu/content/blogcategory/78/775/), presented to you by Open Source Network (http://www.opensourcenetwork.eu) to get you going.Available are: Joomla! 1.5 Administrator Joomla! 1.5 Content Management Joomla! 1.5 LayoutThe total collection free Joomla! Tutorial Videos comes to more than 100 videos, including free Joomla! 1.0 Tutorial Videos (http://www.opensourcenetwork.eu/content/view/93/557/lang,en/) [...]
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Joomla 1.5 1-day training course: London February 15th 2008
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management
Learn Joomla! is holding it’s next 1 day training course in central London on Friday February 15th, 2008. Thecourse will feature the new Joomla! 1.5, and is expected to be one ofthe first training courses covering Joomla 1.5, hotly anticipated to be releasedin January 2008. Participants are encouraged to bring alongtheir latest website project to [...]
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SOBI2 RC 2.8.4 has been released
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management
The SOBI2 Development Team proudly presents a new version of SOBI2.In this version we focused our work on the reduction of the memoryconsumption to make SOBI2 more flexible. But there are also many otherhighlights.In the new version you will find a lot of new features, like Basic template for the add/edit entry form – You [...]
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The 2nd Dutch Joomla! 1.5 Bootcamp
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management
Jira (http://www.jira.nl) , DOP (http://www.dop.nu) and Joomlatools (http://www.joomlatools.org) are organising the second Dutch Joomla! 1.5 Bootcamp in Zaltbommel,The Netherlands. The event will be take place on the 24th of January2008 at the beautifull White Rabbit Locations (http://www.whiterabbit.nl/White%20Rabbit%20Locaties.html) .Based on the feedback of the first bootcamp the second bootcamp will focus more on the technical aspects [...]
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