Gartner: SugarCRM = Visionary CRM
Larry Augustin
SugarCRM has been named a Visionary in the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation published by Gartner(1). SugarCRM was recognized as a visionary software provider based on Gartner’s criteria, which notes that visionary companies “anticipate emerging/changing sales needs, and move the market ahead into areas where it hasn’t yet been.” (2).
We’re disrupting the CRM market, and we’re honored that Gartner has recognized us for our view of how CRM needs to change.
Sugar builds CRM that helps the customer-facing professional do their job better. We turn our users into customer experts. We focus on the real constituents of CRM: the individual customer and the individual user. We help users do their job when engaging with customers. We help the seller sell.
Historically, CRM has focused on the needs of management. What did our sales people do today? How many meetings have they had? How many calls did they make? What is their forecast? While answering those questions is important to management, those questions don’t help the seller do their job.
Our focus is on helping the seller sell, rather than enter data and forecast updates after the deal has happened. Sugar strips away the irrelevant data entry layers and user controls that impede sales productivity and ultimately CRM adoption.
Because we remain laser focused on delivering innovative solutions for the individual user first and what they need to do their job, we not only raise the bar on sales productivity, we also deliver real value to our customers. Sugar offers a price point that allows for the broad-based CRM adoption businesses require, to enable every customer facing professional to successfully engage their customers.
SugarCRM is disrupting the industry, delivering innovation while driving value for our customers. It’s core to who we are. SugarCRM was one of the first commercial open source applications in the space – empowering organizations to deploy CRM broadly across the customer facing organization at great value and with more control over their CRM initiative. And, Sugar was one of the first CRM products to be available across multiple cloud environments – giving users the ultimate level of choice in deployment. Today, we are developing some of the most innovative, user-focused CRM products available across devices.
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