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Sweet Tweets of the Week (4/29-5/3)

anshua —  May 3, 2013 — Leave a comment

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

In CRM Success, Social CRM, SugarCRM, Uncategorized
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Sofos Energia Increases Sales Productivity By 30 Percent

anshua —  May 3, 2013 — Leave a comment

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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In CRM Success, SugarCRM, Uncategorized
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Flying the Friendly Skies to Gartner Customer 360 Summit in San Diego

anshua —  April 30, 2013 — Leave a comment

We’re flying at 40,000 feet above the central California corridor on our way from Silicon Valley down to San Diego for what we expect to be an awesome Gartner Customer 360 Summit that kicks off tomorrow, May 1.

Understand. Engage. Deliver: Earning Customers for Life – that’s the theme of this year’s summit.  We’re really excited to be participating this year as a platinum sponsor. Gartner360CRMIt will be two-and-a-half intensive days chock-full of analyst presentations, workshops and peer interaction, giving business and IT leaders a complete view of the customer across the organization and across every touchpoint in every medium. Understanding what customers want, need and expect — and having the right people, processes, cultures and technologies in place to respond in real time — will be critical to every organization’s success, according to Gartner.

We agree completely. Our mantra is Every Customer. Every User. Every Time.

That’s the message we’re spreading, as a sponsor of this year’s Customer 360 Summit.  SugarCRM focuses its SFA messaging on empowering every sales user to be more effective every time they engage 1-to-1 with every customer. Sugar focuses on the point of interaction between a customer and sales professional. We enable sales professionals to have the knowledge and tools necessary to understand their accounts and prospects as individuals, identify what really matters and when it matters, and drive value and a superior experience every time they engage with their accounts.

We’ve planned multiple meetings with Gartner analysts, customers, partners and prospects over the next few days. Today, we hit the ground running attending the afternoon pre-event CRM Boot Camp.

Stay tuned as we’ll be sharing insights, perspectives and things we learned at this year’s exciting Gartner Customer 360 Summit.

Best,

Jay Mejia

Director of Communications

In CRM Success, mobile, Social Business, Social CRM, SugarCRM, Uncategorized
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Sweet Tweets of the Week

anshua —  April 26, 2013 — Leave a comment

Get the latest buzz on all things Sugar! Join us here on the Sugar blog every Friday as we recap weekly highlights from the Twittersphere. Here are just a handful of tweets that caught our eye this week. Follow us on Twitter @sugarcrm and join the conversation!

Jason Levine tweeted, “Breakfast with @SugarCRM & Oosis – preview of #social integration in SugarCRM 7 is impressive. #SocialBiz”

https://twitter.com/jasonjLevine/status/327306613176295424

BrainSell tweeted, “Demoing @sugarcrm and @contivio #telephony integration, love the reactions from propects. Lots of ooos and ahhs”

https://twitter.com/BrainSell/status/326746486304043009

John Mertic tweeted, “Nice recap of #SugarCon by the gang over at @SugarOutfitters https://www.sugaroutfitters.com/blog/sugarcon-2013-our-highlights …. Thanks to @eggsurplus and @chadhutchins!”

https://twitter.com/jmertic/status/327238055931047938

Jacqi Levy tweeted, “Nice video from #ibmpartners @SugarCRM on how to go to market effectively with IBM http://bit.ly/11hHlhW”

https://twitter.com/jacqilevy/status/326739704437428224

Mike Gee tweeted, “Thanks to @sugarcrm #Sugar 7 dashboard is now even more involved with what’s going on in your world pic.twitter.com/0xSM80tjly”

https://twitter.com/EnableITmike/status/326423414850080769

In CRM Success, Open Source, Social CRM, SugarCRM
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Join us at Gartner Customer 360 Summit next week!

anshua —  April 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

Going to Gartner Customer 360 Summit in San Diego next week, May 1-3rd? Find us at the event that’s all about creating a great customer experience.

–Visit Booth 106 to meet the Sugar team and see the latest, coolest CRM technology that is redefining the way companies interact with the people who choose to do business with them. Every Customer. Every User. Every Time. Gartner Summit

–Attend Sugar CEO Larry Augustin’s session, “SugarCRM: Death, Taxes, & Sales Forecasts: Transforming CRM for Real Users” on May 2nd from 11am-12pm. Find out how:

Traditionally accepted claims of CRM ROI – better forecasting visibility, better internal controls – are a testament to why the promise of CRM has fallen short. Even with today’s ease of deployment, CRM is still synonymous with low usage and the burden of mandatory forecasting. In this session, attendees will learn how to move away from the corporate-led CRM agenda and focus on the needs of real CRM constituents: the customer and the customer-facing user.

Learn more about Gartner 360 here. See you in San Diego!

Gartner Customer 360 Summit delivers complete coverage of the new strategies and technologies that are enabling organizations to better understand and engage their customers, build loyalty and grow the business.

This must-attend CRM event brings together senior business, marketing and IT leaders to focus on creating a strategic, unifying vision for customer engagement and experience management.

In CRM Success, Social CRM, SugarCRM, Uncategorized
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Sugar ranked among 2013′s most successful open source projects

chrisbucholtz —  December 18, 2012 — 1 Comment

NetworkWorld’s Alan Shimel recently published his list of the 10 most successful open source projects of 2012, and SugarCRM is there on the list. Sugar earned kudos for its integrations with Sharepoint, Lotus Notes, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook, but beyond that, Shimel writes, SugarCRM has“emerged from Salesforce’s shadow and become a CRM power in its own right. With lots of ways to consume Sugar, there is a model and a price point for just about everyone. While continuing to innovate, Sugar has found its place.”

Of course, in order to find that place, SugarCRM’s had to focus on more than just being an open-source alternative. SugarCRM had to focus on addressing the top problem of its users better than the competition: enabling the entire organization to effectively engage with customers, and making every connection and call drive value for each customer. Recognizing the need for an organization-wide customer engagement platformgives Sugar’s internal team and those of its resellers partners direction to use the flexibility that the application’s open source heritage provides.

The others on the NetworkWorld list – Hadoop, MongoDB, OpenStack, Pentaho, PostgreSQL, Joomla, WordPress, DotNetNuke and Audacity – have also been keen observers of the business needs of their customers. To see the full list, visit Shimel’s slideshare deck outlining his 10 open source success stories.

 

 

 

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SugarCRM’s Growing Momentum

chrisbucholtz —  November 14, 2012 — 2 Comments

SugarCRM’s third quarter was yet another strong one. The company added 650 new customer companies and continued to grow its momentum in the enterprise market. Annual recurring revenue growth sustained its pace, coming in at more than 45 percent year-over-year, and SugarCRM notched its 12th consecutive quarter of year-over-year billings growth, with a 23 percent increase in the third quarter of 2012.

“As global demand increases for enterprise-wide CRM systems that equip all customer-facing professionals with the insight they need to drive deeper, more relevant customer engagement, SugarCRM is well positioned to carry on its global expansion,” said Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM.

The company’s list of highlights for the quarter is a long one:

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SugarCRM Wins Cloud CRM Comparison

Jan Sysmans —  October 20, 2011 — 1 Comment

Great news for SugarCRM from Down Under.

iTnews, Australia’s leading source of enterprise IT and telecoms news, just published ‘Which Clouds Play Nice‘, a 44-page technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise market.  Brett Winterford, editor of iTnews, writes that this “groundbreaking study asks a series of essential questions for any organisation considering adoption of cloud solutions offered by Atlassian, Financial Force, Google, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, MYOB, NetSuite, Oracle, Paycycle, Quicken, RightNow, Saasu, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, SugarCRM, Taleo and Xero.  Namely:

  1. Can I get my data in and out freely?
  2. Does it integrate natively with other systems?
  3. What third-party integrations are available?
  4. Can I write code to integrate with it?”

The ‘Which Clouds Play Nice‘ analysis has a wealth of information and is a must read for any IT decision maker, anywhere in the world, looking at implementing cloud services and more specifically cloud-based CRM services.  We were humbled and pleased to learn that SugarCRM came out on top of the CRM Scorecard, when compared to salesforce, Oracle on Demand, Microsoft Dynamics, RightNow and NetSuite.

You can download this exclusive research from the iTnews portal here.

In Cloud Computing, CRM, CRM Success, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle, salesforce.com, SugarCRM, Uncategorized
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It’s All About Choice, The Customer’s Choice

Jan Sysmans —  October 17, 2011 — Leave a comment

When I read GigaOM’s Mike Jones’s great contribution to the growing discussions on the future of SaaS, one thought kept going through my mind. Who’s taking the customer side in this discussion? So far the SaaS vs. XaaS discussion is mostly a technical and infrastructure discussion. “Acronyms as a Service” is a great idea, but really, shouldn’t it come down to giving customers choices?

It’s not up to our industry to dictate what solution customers should use. It’s up to us to create the solutions that enable customers to choose the right deployment model that meets their specific requirements. For some customers that will be SaaS, for others that will be IaaS or PaaS.

So to add to the discussion and focus it a bit more on CRM, what customers need is choice:

  • The choice to freely move their data between different clouds;
  • The choice to where they want to deploy their CRM instance;
  • The choice to integrate with any open social platform;
  • The choice to access their CRM solution from any mobile platform;
  • The choice to change their CRM when they run against the limitations that come with legacy CRM solutions; both on-premise as well as SaaS.

And for that CRM needs to be open. Today, SugarCRM is the only solution in the market that is open and built for the cloud. This flexibility offers customers choice.

In Cloud Computing, CRM, CRM Success, salesforce.com, Social Business, Social CRM, Social Media, SugarCRM
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The Facts About Salesforce.com (part 3)

Jan Sysmans —  October 13, 2011 — 1 Comment

For those of you who follow the CRM space, last week provided for some real drama. Here’s a quick recap courtesy of TechCrunch

Oct 4: Larry Ellison Cancels Marc Benioff’s Keynote at Oracle’s OpenWorld
Oct 5: After A Cancelled Keynote, Benioff Strikes Back; Talks Future Of The Cloud
Oct 6: Ellison Reveals Oracle’s Public Cloud; Calls Salesforce The ‘Roach Motel’ Of Cloud Services

I don’t want to dwell on this cloud spat, but the one thing I do want to talk about is one of the points that Larry Ellison raises.  He warned customers: “Beware of false clouds“, and further goes on to state that salesforce.com “is a proprietary cloud, the ultimate vendor lock-in”.  It really delights me to see that Larry Ellison is now saying what we’ve been saying all along.  Salesforce.com is not cloud computing.  Salesforce.com is a 10 year old multi-tenant hosting technology.

True cloud computing allows customers to freely move their data between different clouds;
True cloud computing gives customers the choice where they want to deploy their CRM instance;
True cloud computing is open;
SugarCRM is the only CRM solution in the market today that is truly build for the cloud.

On Oct 12, we announced added support for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise to the set of public clouds that customers can deploy Sugar on.  In addition to the IBM SmartCloud, Sugar runs on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud and Windows Azure.  Customers can also choose to deploy Sugar in the Sugar Cloud, in one of our partner clouds or in their own private cloud.  To learn more about the benefits of REAL cloud computing, take a look at the following:

Deploying SugarCRM on Public Clouds http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=deployingsugaronpublicclouds-111013021614-phpapp01&stripped_title=deploying-sugarcrm-on-public-clouds&userName=jsysmans

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In Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing, CRM, CRM Success, IBM SmartCloud, Oracle, salesforce.com, SugarCRM , , , , , , ,
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