Open Source NewsJun
06
As most of you know, eBay bought out Magento last week, picking up the 51% of the company it didn’t own. While I have no idea what they paid for it, we do know that its initial purchase of Magento (the 49%) valued the company at 45 million. I would bet the farm that the …
Apr
06
So – I just got a preview of Aaron Fukerson’s presentation at SugarCON. I will not steal his thunder before his session – but holy toledo, was I impressed by it! So….without any spoilers, here is the 30,000 ft summary: …We all know how hard it is to take the tweets, blogs, forums, threads, likes, …
Apr
06
So SugarCON 2011 is in its 2nd day….and its hard to believe that its over in 2 hours. You will not find a more intense 48 hours of organized conference chaos anywhere else in Silicon Valley. So…IBM and its pragmatic play with SugarCRM and LotusLive, definitely real, definitely NOT vapor, and definitely a winner. Another …
Apr
05
Day 1 at SugarCON 2011….and at any software conference or exposition, its easy to get carried away with the hyperbole and “vapor” of new product releases, new alliances, the latest “foo”-CRM idea. There is one solution offering though, that appears to be the real deal, and I am betting is going to get traction…fast….and its …
Apr
05
Over the weekend, two of Levementum’s engineers spent 50 hours with 50 programmers for SugarCON Code Sprint. These fantastic super-nerds spent 2 days working on innovations for the upcoming release of SugarCRM 6.2. The best news…they ran on Beta all weekend and in spite of all the cutting and chopping the 50 programmers did, …
Mar
29
Who should own and control your data? Should you be able to pull your data in anyway you like or should you be held to specific report structures? With SugarCRM, you are the owner of your own data. You get a full backup of all your data with all the object relationships intact up to …
Mar
28
The goal of a CRM solution is to drive growth (i.e. revenue) and maximize efficiencies (i.e. profit) in business practices, processes, and relationship management (sales). Should you have to pay a premium and be restricted on how you do this? SugarCRM says NO! This is why they are an open source product, why they allow …
Mar
25
SugarCRM’s Professional offering is equivalent to the Enterprise offering of Salesforce. Salesforce’s “Professional” offering lacks basic sales force automation features which a professional CRM should have. Who wants to pay for a “professional” CRM solution that won’t support a professional sales force appropriately? SugarCRM wants their customers to get the most out of their CRM …
Mar
24
With almost every purchase you make whether it’s a golf club, shoes, or even a a car, if you have the ability to try it before you fork over the money to buy it…don’t you try it first??? SugarCRM understands the need and desire to try a CRM solution before you invest your business’ money …
Mar
23
Additional features and services are almost always a benefit, but when you can select an additional feature and customize it to your specific needs…that’s a WIN! Salesforce claims to offer approximately 1000 extensions and services on their app exchange. SugarCRM has more than 6000 extensions AND provides the source code for each allowing customization to …