How to Make CRM Implementation Truly Profitable?

How to Make CRM Implementation Truly Profitable?Author: Nikolay Bulava, CEO

Project Success = Return on Investment
Much has been written about the fact that customer relationship management (CRM) is a part of any successful business.  In addition, a lot has been said about the fact that a CRM system is a necessary tool for effective customer relationship management. It’s all true, as well as the statistics showing that 60% of CRM system implementation projects never get the return on investment. Continue reading How to Make CRM Implementation Truly Profitable?

SugarCRM Community Edition vs Professional: Is It Reasonable to Upgrade?

SugarCRM Community Edition vs Sugar Professional: Is It Reasonable to Upgrade?December 15, 2016 – Integros hosted the webinar “SugarCRM Community Edition vs SugarCRM Professional: Is It Reasonable to Upgrade” that attracted both the users of open source CRM systems and those looking for their “perfect CRM”. The webinar disclosed the peculiarities of SugarCRM Community Edition, the most frequent problems associated with its usage and the optimal ways to solve them. The attendees were able to find out the answers to the following questions: Continue reading SugarCRM Community Edition vs Professional: Is It Reasonable to Upgrade?

How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations [Part 2]

How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations [Part 2]Author:Taras Denysenko, Developer

Hi again! Here is the second part of SugarCRM tutorial on the topic “How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations” (to read PART 1, click here). In the first part of the article we provided a brief review of MS SQL Server collations and today we’re going to dwell on the practical aspects of the matter and present the results of our experiment with SQL Server collations. Let’s roll! Continue reading How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations [Part 2]

How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations [Part 1]

How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations [Part 1]Author: Taras Denysenko, Developer

SugarCRM performance tuning often comes down to subtleties, as one little, seemingly innocuous change may sometimes lead to a dramatic increase or just as dramatic a dip in system productivity and responsiveness. This doubly applies to cases when user experience and overall efficiency of a complex software system depend on seamless interaction between its components, as is the case with SugarCRM integration with MS SQL Server (or any other RDBMS it may rely on). Continue reading How to Optimize SugarCRM by Choosing MS SQL Server Collations [Part 1]

SugarCRM Included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management

SugarCRM Included in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead ManagementThe market for CRM lead management applications continues to grow, evolve and mature. To keep track of it, Gartner has recently released its regular Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management. This Magic Quadrant evaluates 17 providers to help IT leaders find the right choice for their company, in collaboration with marketing, sales and digital commerce leaders. SugarCRM was among the best CRM vendors to be included in the Quadrant. Continue reading SugarCRM Included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management

How to Customize SugarCRM to Implement Additional Filters

How to Customize SugarCRM to Implement Additional FiltersAuthor: Andrii Dubinin, Software Engineer

SugarCRM has long been known as one of the most flexible CRM systems available in the market. This fact gives it enough room for improvement to meet even the most specific requirements. For example, many users are not satisfied with the number of filter options available. Thus, as a follow-up to our series of simple SugarCRM customizations, I will talk about the implementation of additional filters for certain list fields. It will definitely improve the quality and convenience of search in SugarCRM. Continue reading How to Customize SugarCRM to Implement Additional Filters

How to Make Use of Your Corporate Best Practices in SugarCRM Efficiently

How to Make Use of Your Corporate Best Practices in SugarCRM EfficientlySeptember 28, October 6 – Integros once again held a series of webinars dedicated to the enhancement of best practices sharing and managing. The events summoned executives working with SugarCRM and willing to facilitate knowledge management in their companies.
Along with other helpful insights, Integros demonstrated special features of Check List, a go-to SugarCRM extension, developed to amplify lead and knowledge management. Continue reading How to Make Use of Your Corporate Best Practices in SugarCRM Efficiently

SugarCRM Integration with MailChimp: Email Marketing Made Simple

SugarCRM Integration with MailChimp: Email Marketing Made SimpleAuthor: Sergey Zakharenko, Senior Consultant

Mailout is known to be the cheapest channel of conveying information about your company to customers. Using specialized services allows sending a large number of personalized e-mails, without spending lots of time on it. One of the market leaders in this sphere is MailChimp e-marketing service. This blog post describes how SugarCRM integration with MailChimp can benefit your company. Continue reading SugarCRM Integration with MailChimp: Email Marketing Made Simple

What You Need to Know to Boost Your CRM System

What You Need to Know to Boost Your CRM SystemAuthor: Nikolay Bulava, CEO

Very often, when we consider boosting our CRM, we start from exploring and comparing features of different CRM systems. After some time, we select an understandable CRM solution that is expected to bring good results.  However, when the CRM implementation is complete, it does not seem to be plain sailing at all. Why?

Because, frequently, when we are looking for approaches to business optimization, we tend to speak with CRM providers about absolutely different things (e.g. automation and data collection a.k.a. accounting). Continue reading What You Need to Know to Boost Your CRM System