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Building An Application On The SugarCRM Platform
John Mertic
Who Am I?
● John Mertic● Contact Info
● http://jmertic.wordpress.com● Twitter: @jmertic● jmertic@sugarcrm.com ( SugarCRM )● jmertic@php.net ( PHP )
● Community Manager for SugarCRM● http://www.sugarcrm.com● http://developers.sugarcrm.
com/wordpress● Twitter: @sugarcrmdev
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My books
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http://amzn.to/enioPVhttp://t.co/UFRHNSO
What is CRM?
Why is SugarCRM different?
What is the future of CRM?
Why build on SugarCRM?
Customer Relationship Management
What is CRM?
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CRM is about Customers
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CRM is about Growing and Retaining Customers
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SugarCRM: The World’s Fastest Growing CRM Company
● Business● Leading provider of Open Source CRM Software● Founded April 2004 in Cupertino, California ● Europe Head Office in Munich, Germany● IBM Global Alliance Partner
● Market Traction● Award winning products● 3rd largest global CRM Provider● 1M users, 80,000+ organizations● 400+ partners on five continents
● Fastest Growing ● 118%+ billings growth Q1 2012 over Q1 2011● > 11 Million downloads ● 2,500+ New customers in 80 countries
Leader Position in CRM for Midmarket - June 2010
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Sugar Editions
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What makes Sugar different?
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We Believe in Putting the User First
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We Believe in an Open Cloud
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We Believe in an Open Ecosystem
Integrations Social
CloudMobile
SugarCRMOpen Ecosystem
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OW2 Ecosystem
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What does the future of CRM look like?
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Where is CRM going?
x AnythingRelationship Management
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Where is CRM going?
xRM is about Connections
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Where is CRM going?
xRM is about Building and Fostering Connections
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Why not just use one of the million existing web frameworks?
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Evolution of Web Development
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The future is open standards for interoperability
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So what does SugarCRM give you?
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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
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124284912@N01/428051636
Easy to use developer tools
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skistz/398429879
Upgrade safeness
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Resources
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http://www.sugarforge.org
http://amzn.to/enioPV
http://t.co/UFRHNSO
Questions?
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