Posted in CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I blogged about a cool Sugar/Openbravo ERP integration a few weeks ago…and while it is impossible to list all of the cool integrations people out there are doing with SugarCRM, a few stand out to me.
I just saw that DataSync has put together a very cool SugarCRM/Zimbra integration. According to them:
The first version of the […]
Posted in Application Design, Open Source on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
I took note of David Rosenberg’s blog from yesterday about a new IDC study about open source and it’s validity as a viable business model. The study, while perhaps a little late (at least in terms of SugarCRM’s existence for over four years), is all-in-all good stuff and underscored some important aspects of the commercial […]
Posted in Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM on Jul 10th, 2008 No Comments »
We all know that gas prices suck…and we know energy costs are going to affect everyone in foreseen and some unforeseen ways.
But I have been thinking a lot about open source, SaaS providers, and the older sales models of many proprietary software vendors. A lot of these companies are still depending on the older enterprise […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM on Jul 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I just completed work on a small bylined article that I’ve written for a European publication about SugarCRM and how our product offerings are well suited for the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market. Whenever I read about CRM for SMBs two paying points usually jump forward: price and Microsoft integration, both of which are […]
Posted in Application Design, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM on Jul 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Intelligent Enterprise poised an interesting question in this article it ran last week: How can you integrate SaaS solutions with on-premise?
Companies such as Cast Iron and Boomi (mentioned in the article) are both great at accomplishing what they set out to do: integrating solutions with other solutions of preexisting partners. Yet in the end, the […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Bill Synder of CIO magazine had an article he recently wrote on open source CRM published today. In it, he highlights a point that my colleague spoke about yesterday: the lingering resistance that many C-level executives have towards allowing open source into the enterprise at the application level.
There’s still plenty of CIOs unsure of the […]
Posted in Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM on Jul 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
While Salesforce.com and other companies (SugarCRM included) were busy growing at triple digit growth rates via a subscription model, a lot of established vendors kept their distance.
And even when companies got into a subscription model, it was closely tied to their SaaS offerings. Some people, sad to say, still feel SaaS and subscription revenue models […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM on Jul 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Frost and Sullivan has found that open source telephony and other open source-related IP solutions are experiencing a surge in demand throughout Europe, thanks mainly cost savings, which can run as high as 40 percent over their proprietary brethren.
Studies such as these speak volumes, especially when I still hear call centers being referred to as […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM on Jul 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I still get asked the usual questions when i tell people I work for a commercial open source software provider.
“So - how does your company make money?”
“Can ANYONE simply check in code to your solution?”
“Do businesses really buy open source software?”
I take the time to answer these questions fully, since you never know who might […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Jun 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across this article on Forbes.com entitled “Kill the Data Center,” which as the title suggests, is about the pros and cons of hosting software. The author provides an excellent Q&A with Doug Harr, the CIO of open source database vendor Ingres.
All-in-all, the interview has some great tidbits of info about the decision-making that […]
