Leo Laporte interviews SugarCRM’s John Roberts, covering a wide range of issues including CRM, open source, and Software-as-a-Service business models.The full story
Entries from July 14th, 2008
FLOSS Weekly: Leo Laporte Speaks with SugarCRM CEO John Roberts
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Enterprise apps for the iPhone
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
SugarCRM, the most popular open-source CRM product, now has a home on the iPhone, with a browser-based wireless client that enables users to view and edit records in all core modules of the company’s Sales Force Automation solution, including Opportunity, Contact, and Account Management. Expect full search capabilities plus hyperlinked phone numbers and e-mail addresses [...]
Software Has Come Full Circle
July 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
The journey of software from an original, open source/hardware movement to a closed-shop, licensed world and back to open source is now complete and for many businesses open source is a viable and more flexible alternative, the vice-president of a Silicon Valley open source firm told siliconrepublic.com.The full story
Sizing Up the Cloud
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
How big is the cloud likely to get? Merrill Lynch is expecting the market to reach a ballpark figure of $160 billion – give or take a few billion – by 2011. Though the firm’s expectations may be audacious, it’s also possible that Merrill is underestimating cloud computing’s true potential.The full story
Open Source and CRM 2.0
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
A panel of experts is hosting a free Webinar this week that?s designed to answer this pressing question for companies that deal with customer relationship management: Why is open source among the best platforms for the new breed of CRM, known as CRM 2.0? In general, experts say, CRM is a multifaceted process, mediated by [...]
Three Startups To Solve SaaS Integration Problems
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
While interest in SaaS continues to grow, CIOs are often tripped up by this question: How can I integrate a software service with my on-premise software? Three startup companies this week announced how they are trying to solve this problem. Boomi, SnapLogic, and Cast Iron are rolling out new offerings designed to help companies integrate [...]
TYPO3 v5 project report: June 2008
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management
Our personal summer of code started with what you could call the heart of TYPO3: Persistence. But even apart from this central theme many more topics have been addressed last month; among them speed,…The full story
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1st TYPO3 Bug Day a Success!
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Content Management
Here’s a small summary about our first Bug Day which took place on June 27th.Benjamin Mack and myself were responsible for that first Bug Day. Although we didn’t announce it too far in advance we…The full story
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Open source for your next CRM deployment
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
SugarCRM and other open-source CRM vendors have a slick value proposition for the CIO: Save money, boost innovation, and improve internal adoption. What’s not to love?The full story
CIO Magazine: Open Source CRM Delivers More Control, Less Cost
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
Unlike commercial software, open source code, is just that?open. Users are free to modify and distribute most of it under any of the several commonly used open source licenses. In fact, openness and the right to modify the source code is a key advantage for tech-savvy companies willing to take on development tasks. But it [...]