2018 Holiday Updates: New BPM Schema Tools Features
We're excited to announce new updates to BPM Schema tools! Now you don’t have to search all the bpm'online packages for field type information.
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CRM Data Management Best Practices
Whether your data is at risk, or you’re trying to be proactive to prevent issues, a CRM data management plan is crucial for the longevity of CRM success.
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Why CRM Vendors Win Deals: Part 1 - SugarCRM
Steve and I decided to use our CRMTalk podcast to reach out to CRM vendors and ask them, “Why do you win?”. We analyzed what SugarCRM told us.
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How to Check Your License Usage in Sugar
Knowing the number of licenses you have is always a good idea. If you need to add licenses, or change something about your Sugar instance, you have the information in-hand to simplify planning and budgeting. Here's how to check your license usage and active users in Sugar.
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How to Build the Best Relationships with Service Clients
So how can we build the best relationships with clients as they work with services? From our experience, these are the four best things you can do:
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Sugar’s Productivity Suite is Boosting Sales Velocity
SugarCRM recently introduced its Productivity Suite — a bundled offer combining the flagship Sugar Enterprise CRM with the Hint relationship intelligence tool and Customer Journey plug-in. The goal of uniting these products is to reduce the cost of sales, save time, and increase sales velocity. We’…
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Introducing Schema Tools for Creatio
Pulling Creatio's most current data structure from the API to present it in an easy-to-read format is best. We built the Schema Tools app to enable this.
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SugarCon 2018: Lightning Talks
The SugarCon Lightning Talks were an interesting and fun way to hear about a wide variety of topics in just over an hour.
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Use an Upgrade to Clean Your CRM
The main purpose of CRM upgrades is to keep your functionality and features current. The hope is that keeping the software up-to-date will maximize the agility and usefulness of your data. However, if your CRM is teeming with outdated information, duplicate accounts, and unnecessary customizations…
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Why Machine Learning will Change Accounting Software in 2018
Machine learning has seen real applications in software industries. Specifically in 2018, the majority of accounting software products have adopted AI.
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The Worst Advice You Can Hear About Buying Business Software
Even I, who work in this field, had a hard time writing a blog comparing document automation systems. I scoured review sites and product web pages searching for answers on what these products could and could not do, only to find the information was scattered and not directly comparable. The whole…
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How to Check the Number of Active Users in SugarCRM
Have you ever received this notification in SugarCRM: “Warning: User licenses exceeded by 1”? So, how can you check the number of active users in SugarCRM?
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Controlling Creatio Access Rights Using a Custom Lookup
This post teaches you how to use a business process and custom lookup object to implement team based security without the need for any custom development.
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Why Your CRM is Like a Puppy
During a recent chat with one of our CRM consultants, he mentioned concerns about customer perceptions of CRM. As a business grows, the CRM must grow too.
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Tracking How Often a Group is Used in Infor CRM
In Infor CRM, there is a database table called GROUPSTATS. It was added in version 8.1. This table tracks how often users select each group.
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Managing Read-Only Access to Creatio
Setting up security for temporary workers is a common need. A common question is about providing read-only access so they can view information.
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How to Automatically Archive Emails to Sugar Using Sugar's Outlook Plugin
Sugar’s latest Outlook Plugin release includes a new setting to automatically archive both incoming and outgoing emails. Finally! To utilize this setting, you must have the latest version of Sugar’s Outlook Plug-in: version 2.6.0.
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Using Filters and Reports in SugarCRM
If you’re using a CRM, It's inevitable you’ll need to locate and report on data from the system. Those CRM reporting capabilities are where Sugar shines.
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How to Set Up Cascading Dropdown Fields in SugarCRM
The options on a dropdown list (list B) change based on the way a different dropdown field (list A) is set, you must set up cascading dropdown fields.
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How to Run Select SQL Queries in SugarCRM's Cloud Version
If you have Sugar Cloud — Enterprise or higher — and are a systems administrator, you can write your own SQL statement to query the database.
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5 Quick Tips for CRM User Adoption
Less than 40% of businesses have a CRM adoption rate over 90%. What is the point of having a CRM software if you’re not going to use it?
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The Explosive Impact of CRM: 2018 & Beyond
As recently as 10 years ago, the concept of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) might have caused some perplexed looks. CRM has come a long way since.
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How to Use SugarCRM Advanced Workflow for Custom Call Reporting
A SugarCRM user was recently struggling with reporting based on custom fields in her CRM. Our expert, Justin, jumped in and provided the advice she needed.
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Why SugarCRM Keeps Winning the PC Mag Business Choice Awards
You may think you’re suffering from Déjà vu after reading the title of this post, but you’re not. For the fourth year in a row, SugarCRM has won the PC magazine Business Choice Award. The feat becomes more impressive when you learn that SugarCRM has trumped 97 other CRMs to place number one.
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WARNING: Avoid Too Much CRM Customization
CRM customization can be a beautiful thing. It allows businesses to capture more ROI from an out-of-the-box (OOTB) system by streamlining the fields, functions, and data points relevant to their needs. These differentiators can make-or-break your competitive advantage, especially when nearly 91% of…
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