The annual SugarCRM Conference is coming up Feb 2-4 in San Francisco and looks to have a very impressive set of keynote talks featuring Michael Lewis, Paul Greenberg, and Mark Leslie, founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas. All three of these are well-matched to the current economic climate which suggests that investment should have a [...]
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BusinessWeek: CEO Guide to Open Source
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · SugarCRM
If you’re a user of business software, chances are there is an open-source alternative to the expensive licenses pitched by big vendors like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. We asked Bernard Golden, chief executive officer of Navica, a consulting firm that helps companies implement open-source software, to recommend some of the most popular alternatives to conventional [...]
Jigsaw CEO and Co-Founder Jim Fowler to Address SugarCON 2009
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement, SugarCRM
In his keynote, Jim Fowler will discuss how SugarCRM and Jigsaw are working with a shared vision to break down the restrictions of closed and proprietary software. Highlighting the companies partnership in 2008 to leverage Jigsaw’s Open Data Initiative, which made company contact data freely available, easily accessible and quickly transferable into any professional contact [...]
John Roberts, Michael Lewis, Paul Greenberg to Speak at SugarCon
January 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement, SugarCRM
Commercial open source CRM vendor SugarCRM has announced keynotes and sponsors for SugarCon 2009 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The kick-off keynote, The Open Cloud: Open Source and Cloud Computing Converge, by SugarCRM co-founder and CEO John Roberts, will look at how open source and cloud computing are blending to provide customers with [...]
SugarCon Keynotes
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement, SugarCRM
The annual SugarCRM Conference is coming up Feb 2-4 in San Francisco and looks to have a very impressive set of keynote talks featuring Michael Lewis, Paul Greenberg, and Mark Leslie, founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas. All three of these are well-matched to the current economic climate which suggests that investment should have a [...]
BusinessWeek: CEO Guide to Open Source
December 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement, SugarCRM
If you’re a user of business software, chances are there is an open-source alternative to the expensive licenses pitched by big vendors like Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. We asked Bernard Golden, chief executive officer of Navica, a consulting firm that helps companies implement open-source software, to recommend some of the most popular alternatives to conventional [...]
VMware Takes to the Cloud
September 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
vCloud is a platform to organise a internal resources into a cloud-style system, and then communicate between that and an external cloud resource to best deliver services and applications. In an example in his keynote address, VMware CEO Paul Maritz showed how an application could have a set service level agreement (SLA), and if that [...]
SugarCRM Upgrades To 5.1 With Reporting, Analytics, Tracking
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
SugarCRM 5.1, released yesterday, adds the features on top of the 5.0 version , which has been out since last December. Tracker, for example, lets a SugarCRM user review activity by the system that tells an employer which salespeople are making use of its capabilities and what features are most frequently used versus those that [...]
SugarCRM CEO Discusses the Continued Success of Commercial Open Source
August 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
In this eWeek podcast, SugarCRM CEO and co-founder John Roberts discusses the continued success of the commercial open source model. Roberts explains how fast, easy to use web applications and greater customer choice due to open source is changing the game in CRM and IT in general in organizations of all sizes and types. In [...]
FLOSS Weekly: Leo Laporte Speaks with SugarCRM CEO John Roberts
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Customer Relationship Mangement
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