Jul 20, 2012 ...
( PHP ). ○. Community Manager for SugarCRM ... SugarCRM:
The World's Fastest Growing CRM Company. ○. Business. ○.
Building An Application On The SugarCRM Platform John Mertic
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http://jmertic.wordpress.com Twitter: @jmertic
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My books
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What is CRM? What is SugarCRM? Why build on SugarCRM?
What is CRM?
Customer Relationship Management
CRM is about Customers
CRM is about Growing and Retaining Customers
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Leader Position in CRM for Midmarket - June 2010
Leading provider of Open Source CRM Software Founded April 2004 in Cupertino, California Europe Head Office in Munich, Germany IBM Global Alliance Partner
Award winning products 3rd largest global CRM Provider 1M users, 80,000+ organizations 400+ partners on five continents
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118%+ billings growth Q1 2012 over Q1 2011 > 11 Million downloads 2,500+ New customers in 80 countries
Sugar Editions
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We Believe in Putting the User First
We Believe in an Open Cloud
We Believe in an Open Ecosystem
Mobile
Cloud
SugarCRM Open Ecosystem
Integrations
Social
OW2 Ecosystem
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Where is CRM going?
x Anything Relationship Management
Where is CRM going?
xRM is about Connections
Where is CRM going?
xRM is about Building and Fostering Connections
Why not just use one of the million existing web frameworks?
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Evolution of Web Development
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So what does SugarCRM give you?
Modular Design
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MVC Framework
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Metadata Driven Views
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User Authentication and Access Control
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External Services Integration
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Web Services API
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Ease of Administration
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Easy to use developer tools
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Upgrade safeness
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Resources http://t.co/UFRHNSO
http://www.sugarforge.org
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SugarCRM Community
Join the Monthly Community Webinar When: 3rd Wednesday of each month at 11:00am US Eastern Time Where: WebEx ( http://bit.ly/iJANYC )
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Questions?
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