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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.