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Forecasting Clouds Leading CRM focused blog Forecasting Clouds has named SugarCRM the leading open source CRM application on the market thanks to its flexible, intuitive and interoperable nature.

Customer Inter@ction Solutions Sugar 6 allows organizations to quickly add social media management tools and data to their core Sugar deployment. The idea is to eliminate the need for sales, marketing and support agents to visit multiple sites and use multiple tools to engage customers via social media; instead leveraging all of these capabilities right inside their CRM system.

PR Web Levementum expands its Global Open Source practice to Sydney, as a response to significant growth in customer demand for its SugarCRM, Compiere ERP, Magento e-commerce, and Pentaho BI solutions in Australia and Asia Pacific.

IT Jungle

SugarCRM reported 540 new paying customers during the second quarter, including such prominent names as Budget Rent-A-Car, H. D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, and Hunter Industries. This brings the total number of paying customers to 6,000, according to the company.

NewWork World

Open source knows no limits with Levementum. That is the motto of this firm that has built a successful business performing custom implementations of several enterprise open source products, including SugarCRM. Sugar has brough Levementum into the American Bancard project to help with the implementation and customizations that American Bancard would like to have.

CRM Magazine SugarCRM was named a winner in the open source category in the 2010 CRM Magazine Market Leader Awards for the third straight year. SugarCRM has won the category every year since the award's inception in 2008. SugarCRM was also named a leader in the midmarket suites category.

Channel Insider SugarCRM touted the success of its Open+ partner program, noting the company added 50 partners from around the globe in the first half of 2010. In addition, the company noted channel partners continue to account for approximately 70 percent of new SugarCRM billings.

Network World The third installment in a NetworkWorld series chronicling American Bancard's evaluation and roll out of Sugar Professional. Learn firsthand how one company decided to take advantage of the flexibility, intuitiveness and open nature of Sugar.

PC Magazine

Nothing beats a well-tuned CRM (customer relationship management) system for optimizing a company's sales process. In the past, CRM was the preserve of the enterprise. Fortunately, CRM software vendors have lowered the bar over the past several years, so that even business with as little as 10 employees can benefit from the level of maturity and polish found in systems such as Sugar Professional 6.

SugarCRM announced unprecedented success of its Open+ Partner Program in the first half of 2010. The company added 50 new partners across the globe during the period, and existing partners have grown their businesses to focus on SugarCRM’s flexible, intuitive and open product offerings. In addition, channel partners continue to account for approximately 70 percent of new SugarCRM billings.

Newsblaze

SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management software, announced yet another quarter of record growth, fueled by impressive customer wins, as well as continued expansion of its global partner network. Highlights include a 50 percent year-over-year growth in billings, and the addition of more than 540 new customers in the second quarter of 2010.

Now with Sugar 6, SugarCRM had stepped up their game. A CRM system shouldn't be hard to understand or operate. With its ease of use, flexibility and openness, Sugar 6 is already making a name for itself. SugarCRM believes that a CRM application shouldn't be complex and should be affordable, even by small businesses. Saving time and productivity is what this software is all about

Cloud Ave

SugarCRM, the open source CRM company founded in 2004, has announced the release of their latest version, Sugar 6. With this release, SugarCRM is trying to focus on making it easier and flexible for users to use CRM systems. In fact, many users are completely lost when it comes to using CRM.

ReadWriteWeb

With Microsoft and Salesforce.com locked in market and legal combat, the "open-source" (see update below) SugarCRM is quietly building its own empire. The company has landed over 6,000 customers with its focus on customization and openness. With the newly released SugarCRM 6, the company is attempting to improve its user experience while retaining the flexibility that's gotten it this far. Also, SugarCRM is also now available on Windows Azure and has integrated document collaboration via Box.net.

eCRMGuide

After four months of beta availability and testing, SugarCRM today officially announced the general availability of its Sugar 6 CRM customer relationship management platform. Sugar 6 includes an open source community edition as well as commercially licensed professional and enterprise editions.

NetworkWorld

In Episode 2 of our Extreme CRM Makeover - Open Source Edition, we are going to look at SugarCRM, which is the "general contractor" supplying the CRM that will makeover American Bancard, the financial services company we wrote about in Episode 1.

ZDNet

SugarCRM today launched a major upgrade of its open source customer relationship management platform that emphasizes ease of use, information access and setup. Sugar 6, which was officially launched Tuesday, offers a simplified, Web 2.0 interface with big icons, simplified default views, a ShortCut bar and one-click access to a multitude of application data.

Destination CRM

Today's midsize organizations have everything but the proverbial kitchen sink to choose from when it comes to CRM solutions, according to the latest marketplace report from Forrester Research. At least 19 different CRM products are viable options for that segment of the marketplace, according to this year's Forrester Wave: CRM Suites for Midsized Organizations report — though those products come from only 13 different vendors.

C Net

Cloud computing and open-source software have been intertwined since the early days of the cloud. Vendors such as Amazon.com, SugarCRM, Rackspace, and many, many others, utilized open-source choices for everything from virtualization to data stores to user interfaces. Today, it is fair to say that much of the cloud was made possible by both the economics and malleability of open-source software.

SmallBusinessComputing.com

Employees only need a recent Web browser to access and work with SugarCRM. This makes life a lot easier, as SugarCRM management is centralized, and you don't need to worry about upgrading or maintaining each employee's computer. Note that SugarCRM comes in both a community edition and paid editions that have per-seat support fees.