Re: SugarCRM?

There is a different model altogether with Sugar.  The free package is 
actually crippled, with additional functionality in the not for free 
package.  They want to convert users to a paid model.  OGo it seems only 
has a paid module related to the outlok connector, which doesn't effect 
linux clients.  A more interesting comarison is with open-exchange.

Helge Hess wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I think this was raised in the past by Chris, but did anyone _look in 
> detail_ on SugarCRM?
> http://www.sugarcrm.com/
>
> I suppose it would be quite interesting to have a comparison with OGo, 
> it seems that it is more "specialized" on monetary status and customer 
> aquisition but the functionality seems to be less than that of OGo.
>
> In the demo it has the following top-level modules:
> * home            - well, more or less the news app
> * activities        -
> * contacts        - same like OGo person contacts?
> * accounts        - same like OGo company contacts?
> * leads            - no sample data in demo, what is it?
> * opportunities    - an OGo project?
> * cases            - whats that?
> * dashboard        - some graphical reports
>
> It doesn't seem to have a real scheduler (though it can create 
> meetings) and a lot of other functionality contained in OGo. Is it 
> just the dashboard which is missing or do I miss the "secret" in the 
> tool? ;-)
>
> Maybe someone would even be interested in analyzing each feature and 
> write a small guide on how one would do this or that in OGo? I guess 
> that would be a cool marketing document for OGo.
>
> Would it make sense to have a second OGo "skin" called OGo CRM which 
> has different names for the existing functionality (eg "Opportunities" 
> instead of "Projects")?
> Maybe this is something to consider post OGo 1.0, but an analysis 
> would be a precondition.
>
> Greets,
>   Helge

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