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

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!

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

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!

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

Just demo’d @sugarcrm Super sweet product! Lovin the Sugar High #crm—
Bruce Zimmerman (@XRX_BruceZ) April 29, 2013

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

Congrats @acquia @sugarcrm: 2013 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies shar.es/lrpRG via @alwayson—
donnasokolskyburke (@donnasokolsky) April 30, 2013

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“

@sugarcrm's #Sugar 7 skips the lipstick, gets a full body makeover and looks more beautiful than ever blog.oasisky.com/sugarcrm-skips…—
Nigel Gasper (@NigelGasper) April 29, 2013

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

Save the date: @SugarCRM will be taking #SugarCon 2014 back to the West Coast! #LoveSanFran ow.ly/i/1XOmw—
Atcore Systems (@AtcoreSystems) May 02, 2013

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

#SugarCRM #gartner360 great presentation @sugarcrm. Loved the user focus.—
Carla (@Carlaroxx) May 02, 2013

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

Great customer names here MT @sugarcrm: See why major industry brands select SugarCRM for Sales Force Automation: bit.ly/151L5dL—
Lisette (@misslisette) May 02, 2013

Have a Sweet Friday!

Best,

Anshu Agarwal

VP of Marketing

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.

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. It 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

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

–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.

–Attend Sugar CEO Larry Augustin’s session, “SugarCRM: Death, Taxes, & Sales Forecasts: Transforming CRM for Real Users” on May 2^nd 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.

While there were tons of highlights, great moments, sound bites, press coverage, etc. coming out of the event, one trend became clear. SugarCRM has aligned with some innovative and insightful partners – all of us with similar visions of helping create more customer-centric organizations. Perhaps one of the most profoundly aligned companies in our ecosystem is IBM.

Our aligned visions took center stage on Tuesday April 9, as Larry outlined our vision for “Every Customer, Every User, Every Time” and how our product and services are working towards making that a reality for every Sugar customer. Then, following behind Larry’s message, Steve Laughlin, Vice President for Smarter Commerce for IBM’s Global Business Services unit, talked about the empowered customer era and told the 1000+ attendees how IBM is helping to make enterprises more adept at personalizing interactions and the customer lifecycle in general.

And then, on Tuesday, Tamara Duncan, client advocacy executive at IBM, talked about the importance of customer centricity on a panel led by Terry Jones, founder and former CEO of Travelocity. In addition to the main stage, IBM executives also presented two standing-room only sessions: one on social selling by Christopher Lamb, IBM Program Direct, Social CRM, and another on modern marketing tips by Chris Benedetto, Product Marketing Leader, Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM). In addition, SugarCRM solutions architect Charles Hicks presented an integration overview between SugarCRM and IBM Cognos BI to a packed house. It was refreshing to see two seemingly different companies in strong agreement when it comes to creating great customer experiences.

That alignment in culture and vision is already paying off. During the event, SugarCRM announced a key customer win with Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, a leading supplier of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. Sennheiser made the decision to go with Sugar due to the usability of Sugar and product flexibility, but also due to Sugar’s deep integration with IBM technology and products.

Coming away from such an amazing event, we are reminded of how strong an ecosystem we have, anchored by some heavy hitters like IBM. What’s more, it is even more invigorating knowing our vision for our customers’ success are so well aligned.