sugarcrm community vs professional: 10 reasons why it makes sense to go pro
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With over 10 million downloads and a community of 30,000 registered developers, SugarCRM Community Edition (CE) is extremely popular, free and has deeper functionality than many commercial offerings on the market today. But SugarCRM Community Edition does not meet the needs of growing businesses that require tools like custom reporting, sales forecasting, marketing reports and workflow automation to support business decisions. See what you get with SugarCRM commercial editions.TRANSCRIPT
SugarCRM Community vs Professional
10 reasons why it makes sense to go Pro
vs.
Agenda 1. Sugar Community
2. When/Why Go Pro?
3. About Loaded
The Sugar Community Rocks!
The Community in numbers
Over 10 million downloads
A community of 30,000 registered developers
Has deeper functionality than many commercial offerings on the market today
The reasons you choose CE
Flexible Development Platform
Great Community Support and Documentation
Open, Transparent Business Culture
1. Sugar Community
2. When/Why Go Pro?
3. About Loaded
Commercial Editions Meet Needs of Growing Businesses
In the Community Edition, you won't find any of the following:
No customisable reports and dashboards
No workflow
No Sales forecasting capabilities
No marketing reports
No contracts or quotes
No Email and social plugins
No project management module
No mobile CRM
No hosting options
No support
NOT IN
Specifically, what do you get with Pro?
More functionality for your growing company
Reports Teams Mobile
Bye-Bye DIY
End-user Support
Customer Success Packages
Sugar-managed deployment
And you still (always) own your
data
1. Custom Reports
Monitor business performance
Track key metrics across sales, marketing and support
Create advanced charts, scheduled reports, custom reports, dashboards, matrix reports, and access more than 50 pre-built reports.
Easily share reports
2. Workflows
Reduce manual processes by automating information flows and tasks
Create custom workflows so Sugar fits your business and how you work
Create tasks and email alerts to ensure proper follow-up
3. Sales Forecasting
Eliminate "gut feel" guess work and make data-driven business decisions
Generate accurate forecasts based on sales data in Sugar and analyze your pipeline
Monitor how individuals and teams are performing based on opportunities by sales stage.
4. Marketing Reports
Measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns across multiple channels
Compare the budget of a campaign to the resulting actual sales
Create email templates
5. Quotes and Contracts
Create and manage your contracts and quotes
Manage your Product Catalog so that your sales team can add your organisation’s products to quotes
6. Email and Social Plugins
Integrate your Email with SugarCRM using the Plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes
Manage your Google docs using the Google Docs integrations
Manage your online meeting using GoToMeeting, WebEx, LotusLive integrations with SugarCRM
7. Mobile CRM
Increase the productivity of yours Sales reps with real-time access on the go with Sugar Mobile access
Access Sugar from any smartphone, or any tablet, including Android, BlackBerry and iPad
8. Tasks and Projects
Create Tasks and assign them to yourself or to other users.
Use SugarCRM Projects Module to create and manage projects and project tasks for your organisation.
9. Hosting
Choose the deployment option that best suits your needs:
On-site
On-demand
Private clouds
10. Support
Phone
Development Support
SugarCRM 24/7 Support with Loaded!
1. Sugar Community
2. When/Why Go Pro?
3. About Loaded
About Loaded Technologies
Loaded Technologies helps Australian organisations succeed in attracting, nurturing and retaining customer relationships 7 years experience in implementing, supporting, integrating and hosting SugarCRM SugarCRM Gold Partner since 2005
Get in Touch!
Call Loaded Technologies on +612 8282 2900
Email us at [email protected]
Visit our website http://loadedtech.com.au