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SugarCRM 5.1 is now generally available |
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SugarCRM Inc., announced last week (August 27, 2008) the release of SugarCRM 5.1, a new major version of the well-known commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, which has an improved reporting and analytics engine, as well as additional wireless capabilities (like the support of SugarCRM for the popular BlackBerry® and iPhone™ smartphones).
According to their press release, this new version comes after a thorough beta testing process, during which SugarCRM 5.1 was installed more than 10,000 times by over 25,000 users. Quite impressive development in the four years that have passed since Sugar Community Edition received founding, period during which this edition and additional components were downloaded over 5 million times and reached over 80,000 registered community members (including 14,000 developers that created 500 extensions and the translation of SugarCRM in over 75 languages - more infor at www.sugarforge.org). The entire SugarCRM's user base consists of over 400,000 users on 50,000 installations.
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OracleŽ VM Templates for Siebel CRM On Demand just released |
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Oracle just annouced the release of Oracle® VM Templates. These templates allow deploying a fully configured Oracle CRM software platform by providing pre-installed and pre-configured images of the CRM On Demand software. The templates are very useful especially for large organizations where the costs for installation and configration of Siebel CRM On Demand are high - by using the Oracle VM Templates, administrators simply copy the images from the server (with Oracle VM installed) and use them to have a fully installed and configured Oracle environment. This beats the hell out of installing CRM On Demand from scratch.
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SugarCRM adds telephony capabilities from Vertico Software |
 SugarCRM, an open source CRM software provider, announced the addition of telephony capabilities on the list of SugarCRM's features. This integration was the result of a collaboration between SugarCRM and Vertico Software, the provider of the STARFACE telecommunications system. STARFACE SugarCRM Connector, will enable the telephony capabilities for all three SugarCRM editions (Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Professional Edition and Sugar Enterprise Edition).
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Oracle CRM On Demand for BlackBerry released |
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Oracle® CRM On Demand goes mobile. On March 11, 2008 the Oracle Mobile Sales assistant for Oracle CRM On Demand was released. This crm assistant works currently only on BlackBerry (wireless platform developed by Research In Motion). Oracle® Mobile Sales Assistant is designed to help users collaborate "on the run" by giving the choice of managing tasks, appointments, contacts and communicate through calls, emails or text messages.
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 available in 8 languages |
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Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 in December 2007 (initially available to partners only), Microsoft announced a global launch tour that would include the availability of Dynamics 4.0 in over 25 languages. On January 30, 2008, Microsoft announced availability in the first 8 languages: Danish, English, Finnish, Dutch, French, German, simplified Chinese and Spanish. |
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