The global markets are rebounding and companies like yours are focused on growth again. But achieving and sustaining double-digit growth quarter to quarter is hard. Building your company for rapid scale is challenging. And doing that while keeping those close, personal customer relationships you’re known for can be even more challenging. You’re in the process of upgrading all of your business automation to manage this next stage of growth. This is where SugarCRM comes in.

SugarCRM has a global portfolio of over 6,500 customers who look just like you; mid-sized companies growing rapidly into small- to mid-sized enterprises. You’re looking for how to move from manual processes mastered by a few heroes in your company to standardized and automated processes across a whole legion of sales professionals. This may even be your first CRM purchase. Microsoft Excel just not working for you anymore? SugarCRM provides the perfect solutions for managing your customer-facing operations. Whether it’s keeping in touch with your customers or passing leads to your field personnel or answering questions in the call center, SugarCRM provides market-leading innovation at one, simple price.

And what’s more important, we get you. At SugarCRM, we ourselves are a growth company. We understand what it means to grow like you in today’s challenging market conditions. SugarCRM has already doubled its business in just the past couple years and is preparing to do it again. With the assistance of our global network of local channel partners, we can help you build and plan for success.

If your company has 100 – 4,000 employees and is planning on rapid growth in the coming upturn, Sugar is the right CRM solution for you. With thousands of customers across the financial services, insurance, professional services, manufacturing and technology sectors, SugarCRM delivers CRM success for Growth Companies just like you.

We’re bringing the top Sugar highlights from the Twitterverse right here to the Sugar blog every Friday. Hear what Sugar fans tweeted this week! For more, join the conversation and follow us @sugarcrm

Sonja Fridell tweeted, “SO enjoying the @collabspot @gmail – @sugarcrm integration. Doing all #CRM work with it”
https://twitter.com/Sfridell/status/335025970379624448

Sean Myers tweeted, “Great trip to San Francisco. Thank You @sugarcrm for the invitation and @DocuSign for a really cool conference.”
https://twitter.com/seanpmyers/status/334767649294782465

DrupalCon tweeted, “We’re grateful for the support from our Silver sponsor @sugarcrm and cannot wait to see you in Portland! http://sugarcrm.com”
https://twitter.com/drupalcon/status/334582985716281344

Eligeo CRM tweeted, “We’re halfway through Switch to Sugar month! Check out our blog for resources for making the switch to @SugarCRM http://bit.ly/switchtosugar”
https://twitter.com/eligeo/status/334747814619926529

Jordon Moss tweeted, “This is possibly my new favorite thing about @sugarcrm! @AtcoreSystems #AllThingsAtcore #AllthingsPink #PinkSugar pic.twitter.com/O5hHbGswYZ”
https://twitter.com/jordanmoss_13/status/335391779253792769

Have a Sweet Friday!

Best,
Anshu Agarwal
VP of Marketing

Next week, SugarCRM will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the IBM Smarter Commerce event in Nashville May 21-23. The event is a great ibmsmartercommercegathering of business leaders from around the world, with a focus on improving customer-facing processes and technologies to enhance the buying experience.

SugarCRM supports the core Smarter Commerce business processes of Buy, Market, Sell, Service, including integrations with IBM’s Cross-channel campaign management solutions, Cognos and Connections, all of which enhance you organization’s effectiveness and improve your sales cycle.

SugarCRM and IBM have similar views on enabling customer centricity inside our clients’ organizations, as evidenced by our well-aligned messages during SugarCon in April.

To learn more about how SugarCRM supports IBM Smarter Commerce, or if you’re attending the event and would like to schedule time with SugarCRM executives on site, stop by Booth E-18 or visit HERE.

We hope to see you in Nashville!

We’re bringing the top Sugar highlights from the Twitterverse right here to the Sugar blog every Friday. Hear what Sugar fans tweeted this week! For more, join the conversation and follow us @sugarcrm

Kenny Ray tweeted, “@sugarcrm Looking forward to learning about your product at #tek13”
https://twitter.com/kennyray/status/331768144777588737

Jason Eggers tweeted, “I love using it. Syncs docs and more. RT @sugarcrm: Learn about Rolustech’s Gmail Plug-in…Sugar App of the Month! http://bit.ly/Zgu2wT”
https://twitter.com/eggsurplus/status/331804664104353792

Mirco Mueller tweeted, “We won again with @sugarcrm and @Share2B against http://salesforce.com and chatter :) #crm #ESN #SocialSales #SocialBiz #enterprise20”
https://twitter.com/mller_mirco/status/332396514771095554

Peter Niemeyer tweeted, “Thank you @carm_torres and the entire @IBMCCMad crew for making @sugarcrm look good! Here the winning workshop-group pic.twitter.com/vUZq0zoLlP”
https://twitter.com/NiemeyerPeter/status/332633750376689665

Have a Sweet Friday!

Best,
Anshu Agarwal
VP of Marketing

“Keep Business Digital” – That’s the theme for DocuSign Momentum 2013 and as a strong advocate for digital technology, SugarCRM is a sponsor!

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Date and Location: May 14-16, San Francisco, The Westin St. Francis

Here’s where you can find us at the event:

–Visit us in our booth to see how DocuSign’s eSignature solution for SugarCRM gets contracts back faster and closes more deals.

–Join SugarCRM CTO and co-founder Clint Oram during his presentation: “Digital Meets CRM” Wednesday, May 15th from 4:00-4:45pm. Here’s a glimpse into what you’ll learn:

Traditional wisdom leads many companies to bring in technology too late and at exactly the wrong time. In this enterprise efficiency thought leadership session, learn how today’s successful companies are putting digital technology at the beginning of their customer relationship business planning rather than the end. By building digital strategies and processes from the ground up focused on the delivering the right information at the right point in time with a customer, companies can build more strategic, efficient and lasting relationships with their customers.

For more information and to register, visit the website: http://momentum.docusign.com/

Check out Martin Schneider’s blog post about SugarCRM making the digital leap.

See you in San Francisco!

We’re bringing the top Sugar highlights from the Twitterverse right here to the Sugar blog every Friday. Hear what Sugar fans tweeted this week! For more, join the conversation and follow us @sugarcrm

Bruce Zimmerman tweeted, “Just demo’d @sugarcrm Super sweet product! Lovin the Sugar High :-) #crm”

Donna Sokolsky Burke tweeted, “Congrats @acquia @sugarcrm: 2013 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies http://shar.es/lrpRG  via @alwayson”

Nigel Gasper tweeted, “@sugarcrm’s #Sugar 7 skips the lipstick, gets a full body makeover and looks more beautiful than ever http://t.co/c7Rp5jO2qt

Atcore Systems tweeted, “Save the date: @sugarcrm will be taking #SugarCon 2014 back to the West Coast! #LoveSanFran ow.ly/i/1XOmw”

Carla tweeted, “#SugarCRM #gartner360 great presentation @sugarcrm. Loved the user focus.”

Lisette tweeted, “Great customer names here MT @sugarcrm: See why major industry brands select SugarCRM for Sales Force Automation: http://bit.ly/151L5dL

Have a Sweet Friday!

Best,

Anshu Agarwal

VP of Marketing

Everywhere you look, individuals, businesses and even television networks are “going green.” The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like solar and wind power is becoming big business. SugarCRM customer Sofos is one such company doing good for the environment and its customers by promoting the shift to renewable energy.

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While Sofos was well established, with more than 700 clients – it was becoming difficult to track and manage the more than 3,000 prospects in its rapidly growing pipeline. And while Sofos sells modern, green technology, it was relying on manual and time-wasting processes and tools like spreadsheets for managing its sales. So, it was wasting time and employee energy, while also missing out on the ability to deliver the level of coordinated sales management required by sales management and C-level managers.

Sofos knew it needed a change. From the solutions considered, the company was most impressed by Sugar’s flexibility and user experience. Sofos engaged SugarCRM Partner ICE Consultants and in just four months, ICE Consultants had Sugar up and running for Sofos, complete with various customizations to fit Sofos’ unique business needs.

Sofos quickly began seeing numerous benefits from using Sugar. Benefits include:

  • Streamlining its two-year sales cycle–reducing the number of stages from 30 to just 14
  • Reducing monthly reporting time from three days to 60 minutes
  • Increasing closed-won opportunities by 6 percent in the past six months
  • Improving opportunity management and increasing pipeline visibility

Check out the case study here for more detail.

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