Open source CRM firm targets Oracle customers
News SugarCRM is offering support for the Oracle 9i database in the latest edition of its open source CRM product, Sugar Enterprise Edition. Sugar Enterprise Edition, which was launched on Monday, offers support for Oracle 9i as well as MySQL, giving...
[August 17, 2005, 17:00]
Open-source CRM firm marches into Europe
News The open-source CRM vendor announced on Monday that Clint Oram, one of the co-founders of SugarCRM, would serve as general manager for Sugar Europe and run the European team. The establishment of Sugar Europe signifies the importance of Europe as a...
[March 5, 2007, 12:40]
vTiger launches open source CRM
Talkback If you have to choose an open source CRM software you really have to compare deeply these two solutions. When you write that "SugarCRM open source license permits other companies to redistribute the software" don't forget that there is a fight...
[January 1, 2005, 16:27]
vTiger launches open source CRM
News The product is targeted at SMEs and includes various CRM modules such as lead management and security management. The product is targeted at SMEs and includes various CRM modules such as lead management and security management.
[December 31, 2004, 11:40]
vTiger launches open source CRM
Talkback The new release of Vtiger has a lot more features. Here are examples: Office Integration: Save your word templates in the vtiger database and access them from anywhere and create mails and mail merges.
[March 15, 2005, 7:02]
vTiger launches open source CRM
Talkback SUGARCRM PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1.1.2, under which SugarCRM 1 was released, allowed the project to be forked. Version 1.1.3 that was brought in after the vTiger launch changed so that a “Powered by SugarCRM” logo must be included in future forks...
[January 3, 2005, 6:28]
vTiger launches open source CRM
Talkback Plus, vTiger offers role based security which totally lacks on the OS version on SugarCRM
[May 30, 2005, 8:26]
Avid Technology Choosing Commercial Open Source for CRM Success
White Papers A potential problem was developing in the field, as some sales teams, frustrated with the lack of a sales force automation capability, began renting time on hosted CRM SFA solutions or creating their own homegrown solutions.
[July 14, 2006, 0:00]
CRM Total Cost of Ownership: Comparing Open Source Solutions to Proprietary Solutions
White Papers Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications are well understood. What are the inherent costs that aren't conveyed when evaluating CRM solutions? This paper breaks down three important points that have significant cost associations that...
[June 19, 2006, 22:01]
Open-Xchange Server goes open source
News The interface also enables the exchange of datasets from ERP, CRM and project management applications, with Open-Xchange automatically integrating key project deadlines and tasks into appointment and task-management tools, thus removing the need...
[August 2, 2004, 15:10]
New free public WiFi for UK based on open source
Blog As I say, this caught my eye as the terms telecoms and open source are not often used together unless you are talking about open source telecom billing systems, CRM solutions or teleconferencing software perhaps.
[May 20, 2009, 11:47]
Business Objects: Open source a distant threat
News Speaking last week after the launch of Business Objects Extreme Insight (XI), Liautaud said he didn't think that the success enjoyed by open source CRM vendors such as SugarCRM and vTiger will be repeated in the BI space, at least not imminently.
[January 17, 2005, 17:00]
Open source firms claim business model benefits
News Larry Augustin, the chairman of VA Software, cited CRM vendor Salesforce.com, which he claimed spent around $100m (£60m) on sales and marketing in 2005 and only $10m on research and development in the same year.
[April 7, 2006, 12:55]
SpikeSource expands open source line
News SpikeSource said on Thursday that it has expanded its line of certified open source products to include the Centric CRM application and Open-Xchange email server. SpikeSource provides certified "stacks", or combinations, of open source products as...
[August 11, 2006, 10:40]
The downturn - good for open source, not so good for coders
Blog Adding a new module to an open source media centre project may not seem like good experience for creating CRM systems to someone who isn't able to read the code themselves. Some industry commentators have already suggested that developers finding...
[April 14, 2009, 15:31]
SugarCRM closes in on proprietary vendors
News The next version of SugarCRM's open source CRM application, due for release later this week, will include a customisation tool that the company says puts its offering on a par with those of its rivals.
[January 25, 2005, 16:10]
IBM Business Partner Centric CRM Chooses New IBM DB2 9 Data Server Over the Competition to Provide Its Industry-Leading CRM Application to Companies of All Sizes
White Papers One of the most exciting developments in CRM technology is the emergence of true enterprise-class open source applications. Centric CRM, which offers an advanced open source CRM system, wanted the ability to build solutions for the full range of...
[December 3, 2007, 0:01]
Open-source group aims at interoperability
News Founding members of the group — called the Open Solutions Alliance — include Centric CRM, EnterpriseDB, JasperSoft and SpikeSource. Some of the big proprietary vendors have a notion of full-blown suites and some promise of interoperability," said...
[February 14, 2007, 8:27]
SugarCRM unveils Microsoft collaboration
News Microsoft and open source enterprise applications vendor SugarCRM unveiled a technical collaboration Tuesday under which Sugar CRM will release its next CRM suite under the Microsoft Community License.
[February 14, 2006, 16:30]
SugarCRM hopes support will sweeten open-source package
News The free application is comparable to pay-to-licence applications from rivals Best Software, FrontRange Solutions, Microsoft, Salesforce.com and others in the so-called customer relationship management (CRM) software market, said John Roberts...
[September 7, 2004, 13:55]



